Rolling Creek Trailhead to North Fork Trailhead

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Segment 4 of the Colorado Trail, Rolling Creek Trailhead to North Fork Trailhead, brings the hiker up out of the Ponderosa pine forests north of the Lost Creek Wilderness and into the open parks and Lodgepole pine and Douglas fir forests to the west. This section of the Colorado Trail closely follows the old Hooper Trail, a logging road built in the late 1800s. Most of the first half of this section is within designated wilderness.

The second half, from the North Fork trailhead to the Long Gulch trailhead, is outside of the Wilderness. It is frequently mountain biked as part of a loop from the Long Gulch trailhead, east to the North Fork trailhead, south on the Brookside McCurdy Trail to the Lost Park trailhead, and back west on Park County 56 (Lost Park Road) to the point of beginning.