This trail moderate trail is roughly 1.8 miles one way with a roughly 1,100 foot elevation gain to reach Upper Blue Reservior from the parking area. Unfortunately, we forgot to bring the GPS with us on this hike, so we don't have the information from that to post here. However, you can find some trail maps here, here, and here.
Cars can't actually park near the original trailhead. For this hike, you have to park along the dirt road at a fork and start hiking from there. Hike up the left fork, and soon you will arrive at a gate. Then continue past the gate for a ways and you will come to the original trailhead.
After reaching the trailhead hikers are in for some steeper climbing. The grade of this trail is very similar to that of the Mohawk Lake Trail. The trail crosses a bridge very near the trailhead and goes past an old mining shack. It then continues up the north wall of the valley with the creek rushing down the the ravine to the side of the trail.
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| Old Mining Shack |
Very roughly about 1.5 miles from the parking area, you will reach a split in the trail that allows you to head over to see White Falls.
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| White Falls |
From there it is a short but somewhat steep climb to Upper Blue Reservoir. An unofficial trail continues along the north side of this long mountain lake and then climbs steeply to an open alpine tundra area where hikers can continue on to find a few more lakes if desired. However, we only made it to the far end of Upper Blue Reservoir before we had to head back.
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| Upper Blue Reservoir. |
Directions
This trail is located in Colorado near Breckenridge. To get there from Breckenridge, take Highway 9 south to Blue Lakes Rd. and turn right. Continue past the Quandary Peak parking area to McCullough Gulch Rd. and turn right again. Continue about 1.6 miles up this dirt road to the fork, at about N39 23.911 W106 04.153. There is a sign here explaining that there is no parking beyond that point. Park along this road and walk up the left fork to the trailhead. The actual trailhead is at N39 24.059 W106 04.757.
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