Hiking in Colorado

6 May 2008

7 Bridges Trail

Posted by kris under: Trails .

Name of Trial: 7 Bridges Trail
Total Distance: 6.5 miles
Difficulty: Moderate to Hard
Hike Type: Out and back
Starting Location: At the end of the open portion of Gold Camp Rd.

Today we hiked 7 Bridges Trail which is also known as North Cheyenne Creek Trail. This starts at the same point as the St. Mary’s Falls Trail.  You start out by hiking along the closed portion of Gold Camp Road but instead of going all the way up the closed portion of the road you take a trail that goes off to the right where the road starts to switchback.  Like St. Mary’s Falls this trail is very gravely and starts off on a steady incline up the canyon along Cheyenne Creek. The views are great and taking the bridges (there are seven of them, go figure) across the creek gives you the chance to see the creek and some of its falls.

About half the way up, the trail starts to deviate from the creek and stars to head diagonally along a very steep hill that is all sand. This makes for a hard walk and I had a little bit of a fear of slipping down the side. The tail is about 1-2 feet wide most of the way, but sometimes it narrows even more along the hill. The one nice thing about the sandy hill is that you can stop on the way up and look back to see a great view of the city and the valley bellow. Once we got to the top of the ridge we saw an abandoned house right in the middle of nowhere, at this point we had gone 3.25 miles and climbed a little over 1,400 feet. We turned around and headed back the way we came.

The overall, the 6.5 mile hike was good and was only steep in spots. I really like this area of Colorado Springs when it comes to hiking. There are many trail options for great hikes in Colorado.

To see photos that I took while on my hike, visit my Photo Gallery.

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