Name: Fossil Trail
Rating: 4.1

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Land Manager: Jefferson County, CO - Open Space Dept.

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Zach Howell with improvements by Josh Wild

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4.1 from 11 votes

#3

in South Table Mountain

#9200

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4.1 from 11 votes

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#3

in South Table Mountain

#881

in Colorado

#9,200

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Heading back to parking lot from top of ridge

Oct 12, 2021 near West Pl…, CO

Oct 12, 2021 near West Pl…, CO

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Jan 28, 2026

Atsuko Ohtake

Sep 21, 2025

Austin Mcclendon

Nov 12, 2023

Jennifer SunBear

Aug 6, 2022

Joe E

Aug 1, 2022

Niki B

Jul 18, 2022

Leon Raykin

Nov 8, 2021

Val P

Oct 20, 2021

David Schmid

Oct 12, 2021

Coleman Housefield

Mostly boring wide trail with a small section of interesting curves and rocks.

Aug 9, 2021

Steph Osan

Jun 27, 2021

Andrew Archer

May 1, 2021

danny o

Jan 23, 2021

Allegra W

Oct 24, 2020

Eric Sloyer

Jul 18, 2020

Hunter Ruth

Fun sunset ride with Sav 3mi — 2h 00m

Apr 23, 2020

Hunter Ruth

South Table ride with Lucas in the eye of the storm 8mi — 1h 15m

Jun 1, 2019

Greg Cahill

Jun 6, 2018

Levi Wait

nice and groomed. some short Rick garden sections but it was navigated easily by my 8 year old and my 5 year old was able to walk the short section. 0.7mi

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Fossil Trail

“A smooth gravel path at the top and bottom, with some chunkier riding in the middle where the trail climbs the mesa ”

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