Name: Turquoise Lake Singletrack
Rating: 4.0

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If you want to avoid the busiest section of trail, you can park at the Tabor Boat and ride west to Mayqueen and back (about 8.2 miles out and back).

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This is usually ridden as an out and back. Park at the dam and ride the trail along the lake to Mayqueen Campground. It's a great trail to acclimatize on due to little elevation gain and nice climbs.

For a great addition; ride to Mayqueen then left up the road to Hagerman Pass Rd. Take a right on Hagerman Pass and your first left onto Sugarloaf Pass Rd. Ride up the pass then left at the top back down to Mayqueen on the Colorado Trail.

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Local Club: Cloud City Wheelers

Land Manager: USFS - Pike & San Isabel National Forests Office

Shared By:

Sterling Mudge with improvements by Fernando Musa

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Trail Ratings

4.0 from 42 votes

#1

in Leadville

#390

Overall

4.0 from 42 votes

5 Star		29%
4 Star		50%
3 Star		14%
2 Star		5%
1 Star		2%

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#1

in Leadville

#127

in Colorado

#390

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Jul 28, 2025

Roylnn Serati

Aug 19, 2024

Kim Skim

Jul 13, 2024

coloba13

Jun 22, 2024

Sheri Vernier

Jun 21, 2024

Chris Ververis

6.3mi

Sep 11, 2023

Chris Furlong

Too rocky for a cross bike on West side, East side seemed easier…did less than 0.5M.

Aug 14, 2023

Daniel C

Out and back from the dam. Gets very technical towards the end. Lots of hike a bike in some spots for me. Awesome trail!

Jul 2, 2023

K O

Nice family ride 6.7mi — 1h 40m

Sep 3, 2022

Alan Peters

Jul 14, 2021

Fernando Musa

Oct 4, 2020

Daylene York

12.6mi

Aug 22, 2020

Charles S

Awesome

Jul 12, 2020

mike bankoff

Aug 3, 2019

Tyler Cande

Jul 19, 2019

Dan Martel

Jul 13, 2019

Mark Taylor

Fun with Schnells camping at Turquoise Lake.

Jul 10, 2019

John Baker

Beautiful Day! The whole trail was clear. 13.4mi — 1h 49m

Jul 8, 2019

Brandt H

Jun 30, 2019

Jay Nelson

Yes

Jun 12, 2019

Mike Bravo

Sep 1, 2018

Aaron Hilshorst

Aug 27, 2018

John Swartley

Aug 19, 2018

Connor McLaughlin

5 star trail, not necessarily because the riding is amazing (it gets better in the second half) but because the scenery is unbelievable. 12mi

Aug 18, 2018

Anna Gasiewicz

Beautiful trail 11mi

Aug 17, 2018

Anna Gasiewicz

6.3mi

Aug 7, 2018

mike reade

Jul 21, 2018

Paula Cooper

Had to turn back due to weather, but got to do the fun rocky half.

Jul 21, 2018

Andrew Palmer

W/ Jack 12mi

Jul 18, 2018

Mark Newton

Jul 4, 2018

Max Ariza

Jul 2, 2018

Eric Nelson

The second half was very rocky for being just an intermediate. Had to do a couple hike a bike up some rock ledges. 13.1mi — 2h 10m

Jun 10, 2018

Andrew Palmer

Jun 7, 2018

Kevin Oconnell

Jul 24, 2017

Chris Freet

Jul 22, 2017

Caeli Hill

Rode the road up from CR48 up to the top and started on the far end of the singletrack. Awesome ride! 16mi

Jul 4, 2017

Trevor Templeman

12.7mi

Jul 2, 2017

John Miller

Jul 1, 2017

Chad Dean

Jun 10, 2017

Mark Schelde

Dec 3, 2015

D.E. Abert

Camped and road around the lake 2017. Excellent singletrack. High elevation.

Aug 30, 2015

Craig Miller

Added climb up FR 105 to Hagerman Pass, and back down to the Turquoise Lake dam. Sweet views up there! 24mi

Jul 18, 2015

Josh Jones

Jun 13, 2015

Jake Si

6.8mi

Aug 16, 2014

Jason Stubbs

To Hagerman Pass and back. 36.5mi — 5h 00m

Aug 20, 2013

Jeff Wolfe

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Turquoise Lake Singletrack

“A beautiful ride next to one of the largest bodies of water in Colorado! ”

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10,016' 3,053 m

9,876' 3,010 m

380' 116 m

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