Red Cone Pass Trail Colorado
Red Cone Trail is a 7 rated trail that has a 9 rated scare factor if you do not have extreme confidence in your driving and equipment. To get to the trail take 285 about 3 miles past Grant and turn right on County Road 60. At about 5 miles you find a campground and a fork in the road take the far right turn. You are now on the beginning of Red Cone Trail. As you continue down the trail you will come to one more fork turn right and follow the trail to where it meets with Webster Pass.
The first part of the trail contains a few fairly rocky sections and weaves through some narrow switch backs in a heavily treed area. When you get above the tree line you see the part of the trail that everyone talks about a shelf road across the top of a ridge well above tree line. There is an area above tree line that climbs the mountain with two options the left is the harder of the two.
The trail begins with a heavily treed area with many rocky sections.
Tom, Charles and Molly head up the trail in there YJ.
Everyone taking a break along the trail.
Chris makes this optional obstacle in the middle of the trail look easy.
Dan having a little more trouble.
Roy does the obstacle.
Mark has no problem.
Larry, Kathy and Hayden lead on to the cone.
Chris, Tom and Dan heading up the trail.
Looking ahead towards Red Cone itself. A nice look at the trail ahead.
Mark coming down the steepest part of the trail. The picture is courtesy of Larry and Kathy who were already on the bottom.
Chris coming down.
Tom and Charles coming down the steep section.
Dan showing a little speed on the way down.
Roy just had to find a harder line.
Just don't forget to look back and take in the views. Those are Jeeps on the top.
Larry, Kathy and Hayden go down the final hill.
Mark going down the final hill before Webster Pass. If you look at the side of the mountain in the background you can see Radical Hill.
Roy eases it down the final hill.
We had light rain on and off during the day. From Red Cone we proceeded to Radical hill and exited the area through the town of Montezuma.
CUOFFRD
Mark n Sherri
On The Rocks Jeep Club
