Trip Details

Leader: Mercedes Aponte   c-303.589.6666

Meet time: 7a.m.

Leave time: 7:15a.m.

Meeting Place: Wooly Mammoth PnR, Section BB

Bring both snowshoes and spikes. As always, bring your winter 10 essentials. The mileage allowance per car is 75 miles x .30 = $22.5.  This will be divided by the # of people in each car (COVID Policies and Procedures will be followed). 

Contact the South Platte Ranger District at 303.275.5610 for more information.

Caltopo Map of the B-Mc Trail:   https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=39.39462,-105.52724&z=14&b=mbt&a=cf40%2Csf

The Brookside-McCurdy Trail is the major north-south artery through the middle portion of the Lost Creek Wilderness. Its northern terminus is the Payne Creek/Brookside Trailhead near Bailey and its southern terminus is the Twin Eagles Trailhead, southeast of the Tarryall Reservoir. About midway between these two trailheads the Brookside-McCurdy Trail passes through the Lost Park Trailhead. Along the way it connects with nine other trails, providing numerous opportunities to create loop trips of various lengths. Throughout its length, this trail presents the hiker with a wide variety of the different landscapes found in the Lost Creek Wilderness, including different forest types, wide-open parks, wild formations of red Pikes Peak granite, and the tremendous views found along the ridge between Bison Peak and McCurdy Park. Deer, elk, and bighorn sheep are some of the wildlife that can be seen along the trail. Because the trail is almost entirely in designated wilderness, Wilderness regulations apply