Directions to Trailhead: From Boulder, head west on Baseline road to Flagstaff road. Head west on Flagstaff into the foothills for 8 miles. Look for Walker Ranch signs. The parking area is on the left side of the road. You can choose to park in the lower parking are or up near the trailhead
About This Trail: This is a great park. Boulder locals often times refer to this as there favorite trail. They have good reason to. The trail up keep is done by boulder rangers and they do know how to do a great trail. However, If your looking for extreme, Boulder is not the place to ride. Rangers are not allowed to build trails greater than a certain grade. This makes your uphill runs fast but don't expect gravity to pull you down the hill to fast with the shallow grades. They do a great job adding technical riding to the trail since they lack the steep grade riding.
Trail Description: 0 miles, Start your ride in a clockwise direction starting first on a singletrack ascent on Columbine Gulch Trail. 0.8 miles the trail begins it's descent towards the valley bottom. A series of switchbacks and a river crossing brings you to the end of the singletrack and you junction with the Eldorado Canyon Trail at 1.6 miles. Take a right onto a wide dirt road with lots of loose rock. You'll know you are on the right track if an old homestead that has seen better days appears on your left. Continue down the rocky dirt road.9 miles. Eldorado Canyon splits off into singletrack. Do not turn off. That trail is for hikers only. Continue down the dirt road until you reach the bridge at 2.5 miles. A very technical section follows until you finally need to dismount in order to carry a set of stairs. At 3.3 miles you will cross a sign for the Crescent Meadows Trail. This is an additional loop you can choose to take. Keep riding on the Walker Ranch Trail following singltrack until you reach the South Boulder Creek Trailhead at 4.5 miles. The singletrack continues another .2 miles and then turns into doubletrack. Descend once again to the valley bottom and cross the bridge at the 5.6 mile mark. Ride along the river for .4 miles before starting your final ascent towards the trailhead and parking area. Climb up the doubletrack until you reach the top at 7.6 miles.
