Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Ute Valley Open Space


View Ute Valley Open Space in a larger map

Ute Valley Open Space has some great biking trials despite the park occupying a small geographical area and only a couple of the trials being longer than a mile in length.  The trails do not have names as far as I can tell and I have labeled various trails at the park on the map by number.  The ride was reminiscent of the Dakota Ridge Trail in Matthews-Winters Open Space in Jefferson County and some trails I have biked in Moab, Utah as many of the trails are rocky sandstone and technical. 

Link to trail map
http://www.springsgov.com/units/parksrec/maps/pdfmaps/ute_valley.pdf

Parking lot off of Vindicator Drive



The following two pictures are where Trail 1 intersects with Trail 3.



These last two pictures are taken from where Trail 1 intersects with the road coming up from Pinon Park Drive on the southeast of Ute Valley Open Space.