This guide features over two dozen family-friendly hikes in and around the Fort Collins area. Accurate maps and detailed directions make this pocket-sized handbook both easy to use and authoritative.

Mary Reed is the author of Best Easy Day Hikes Fort Collins, Hiking Ohio, and Hiking West Virginia. Her work has appeared in Backpacker, Boulder Magazine, New River Gorge Guide, Ohio Magazine, and many other publications. She lives in Athens, Ohio and Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at maryreed.biz.

Acknowledgments
Overview Map
Introduction
How to Use this Guide
Trail Finder
The Hikes
1. Bent Rock Trail, Red Mountain Open Space
2. Towhee Loop, Soapstone Prairie Natural Area
3. 3 Bar Trail, Eagle's Nest Open Space
4. Kreutzer Nature Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
5. Hewlett Gulch Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
6. Greyrock Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
7. Black Powder Trail, Gateway Natural Area13
8. Well Gulch Nature Trail, Lory State Park
9. Arthur's Rock Trail, Lory State Park
10. Shoreline Trail, Lory State Park
11. Horsetooth Rock Trail, Horsetooth Mountain Open Space
12. Horsetooth Falls Trail, Horsetooth Mountain Open Space
13. North Loop Trail, Reservoir Ridge Natural Area
14. North Shields Ponds Loop, North Shields Ponds Natural Area
15. Riverbend Ponds Loop, Riverbend Ponds Natural Area
16. Cottonwood Loop, CSU Environmental Learning Center
17. Foothills to Reservoir Trail Loop, Pineridge Natural Area
18. Coyote Ridge Trail, Coyote Ridge Natural Area
19. Cattail Flats Trail, Fossil Creek Natural Area
20. Devil's Backbone Wild Loop, Devil's Backbone Open Space
21. Valley Loop, Bobcat Ridge Natural Area
22. Foothills Nature Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
23. Crosier Mountain Trail, Roosevelt National Forest
24. Shoshone to Besant Point Trail, Ramsay-Shockey Open Space