Name: Towers
Rating: 2.8

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Towers is a wide, smooth service road. It's not technical, but has an aggressive grade. Put in the work to climb from the Soderberg Open Space parking lot and access many more trails at Horsetooth Mountain Park! Towers offers some fantastic views of both Horsetooth Reservoir and the city of Fort Collins to the East. There are plenty of trees for shade.

Near the top, there's a spur (South) to access the northern towers. If you stay on the main trail, it will make its way to the southern towers. Once at the top, there are some spectacular views!

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Local Club: Overland Mountain Bike Club

Land Manager: Larimer County, Colorado

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Dennis Diaz

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Trail Ratings

2.8 from 34 votes

#11

in Horsetooth Mountain Park

#10605

Overall

2.8 from 34 votes

5 Star		12%
4 Star		15%
3 Star		29%
2 Star		32%
1 Star		12%

Trail Rankings

#11

in Horsetooth Mountain Park

#995

in Colorado

#10,605

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A beautiful view looking further West from the top of the Towers Trail at Horsetooth Mountain Park.

Apr 27, 2013 near Laporte, CO

Beautiful morning light while climbing up Towers Road.

Jun 25, 2017 near Bellvue, CO

South radio towers at the top of Horsetooth Mountain Park, Fort Collins, CO.

Apr 28, 2013 near Laporte, CO

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Aug 13, 2024

James Obermyer

As others mentioned, not very technical, just a long steep grind up. Fairly certain I saw a mountain lion about 2 miles up so decided to turn back. 3.3mi — 1h 30m

Aug 4, 2023

Harley Denkers

Went Up and Down Twice 6.6mi — 1h 30m

Aug 16, 2022

Jackson Vidmar

Sustained vertical all the way up.

Apr 24, 2019

Austin Imig

Super steep fire road up to a series of fun singletrack downhill trails

Jun 16, 2018

Timmy Kessel

May 26, 2018

Noli E

Mar 4, 2018

David Roecker

Mar 3, 2018

David Roecker

Aug 9, 2017

Jerico Devlin

Jul 20, 2017

Ryan Dusil

Jun 2, 2017

Ryan Dusil

May 13, 2017

Rob Hoffman

1.5mi

Oct 15, 2016

Ryan Gross

Rode until Herrington 2.6mi

Sep 24, 2016

Mike McD

Sep 3, 2016

Jennifer Peterson

Aug 14, 2016

seth ODell

Accessed Carey spgs 2.9mi — 1h 35m

May 27, 2016

Jared Crockett

It's steep, wish there were a better way to climb the mountain

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Towers

“A service road to access the radio towers at Horsetooth Mountain Park. ”

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7,143' 2,177 m

5,528' 1,685 m

1,624' 495 m

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