Name: Lake Haiyaha Trail
Rating: 4.6

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · Lake · River/Creek · Views · Wildlife

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From the junction of Emerald Lake Trail and Dream Lake Trail, just before Dream Lake, Lake Haiyaha Trail heads south over the ridge. The trail then switchbacks its way through dense forest before quickly topping out and descending towards Chaos Creek. Cross the creek and start hiking up the southern bank past a junction with Lake Hayiaha Cutoff. Soon afterwards, the trail will descend to Lake Hayiaha.

Enjoy the beauty of the lake before retracing your steps on the Lake Hayiaha Trail or following the Lake Hayiaha Cutoff to East Glacier Knob Junction.

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Land Manager: National Park Service - Rocky Mountain National Park

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Trail Ratings

4.6 from 55 votes

#2

in Bear Lake

#32

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4.6 from 55 votes

5 Star		64%
4 Star		35%
3 Star		2%
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Trail Rankings

#2

in Bear Lake

#9

in Colorado

#32

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Representing the REI NP Centennial backpack at Dream Lake, looking towards Flattop Mountain (right) and Hallett Peak (left).

May 20, 2016 near Estes Park, CO

Feb 9, 2015 near Grand Lake, CO

Apr 23, 2017 near Estes Park, CO

Hallet Peak, 2 am, with moon and Jupiter

Mar 23, 2021 near Estes Park, CO

Jul 30, 2017 near Grand Lake, CO

Longs Peak stands prominently in the distance along the Lake Haiyaha Trail.

May 14, 2017 near Estes Park, CO

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Jul 30, 2026

Brad

Jul 15, 2026

Harpreet Nagra

Mar 24, 2026

Grant Mondejar

Feb 15, 2026

Gordon Eaton

Nov 7, 2025

Robert Kloepple

Oct 31, 2025

Michael Sander

Oct 2, 2025

Bryanna McFarland

Oct 2, 2025

Bryanna McFarland

Sep 24, 2025

Anonymous

not a good evening hike, terrible lighting and can't see how pretty the water is 4mi

Sep 2, 2025

Tilman Giese

Aug 13, 2025

Anonymous

Aug 24, 2024

Ashley Didion

Beautiful lake, good hike, fantastic views. Lake is surrounded by boulders that are hard to walk around on.

Aug 4, 2024

Jeff S

Jun 23, 2024

Ashley Bell

the most beautiful lake i've ever seen in my life. we also passed nymph and dream lakes. one of my favorite hikes. 4.5mi — 3h 20m

Jun 16, 2024

Erica Ames

Oct 17, 2023

Bethany Girtler

Hiked lakes Nymph, Dream and Haiyaha. 4.2mi

Sep 8, 2023

Haden Smith

So blue 0.9mi

Aug 31, 2023

Brandie Liston

Jul 24, 2023

Shane Hoss

Jul 18, 2023

Ashley Baker

May 20, 2023

Michael Daubert

0.9mi — 1h 39m

Oct 21, 2022

Ari R.

Oct 15, 2022

Jeff S

Completed from Bear Lake Trailhead

Sep 11, 2022

DYLAN SNODDY

Sep 7, 2022

Andrea Creighton

Aug 23, 2022

Rosie Betenbaugh

0.9mi — 12h 53m

Aug 23, 2022

Rosie Betenbaugh

1mi — 12h 53m

Aug 14, 2022

Marc Z

May 31, 2022

Scott Schmalzried

Ascent from emerald lake had some very narrow, snowy/icy, sloped sections where a fall would have been far down a steep slope...a bit sketchy

Apr 2, 2022

Jody Rae

Oct 4, 2021

Austin Eschweiler

Aug 7, 2021

Connor Greenhalgh

Just me 0.9mi

Aug 6, 2021

Kelsey O'Keefe

Aug 2, 2021

Zia Aiello

Jul 20, 2021

Julie Schuck

Jul 10, 2021

Marc Daniel

With Mila coming from loch — 12h 30m

Jun 5, 2021

Matthew Freeman

trail was impassable without after the split 0.1mi

Dec 25, 2020

Jody Rae

Dec 19, 2020

L G

With Chris

Oct 12, 2020

Manoj Abey

1mi

Oct 8, 2020

Mary Katherine Henley

Oct 6, 2020

Jennifer Smith

Sep 18, 2020

Scott Street

Sep 10, 2020

Emily Kay

Aug 15, 2020

Bret Mayfield

Aug 14, 2020

Jim Franecki

Jul 11, 2020

Mike Amolsch

After sky pond we switched up hill to here. Passing emerald, dream and Bear Lakes! Amazing. Tough, day but loved it 5mi

Jul 9, 2020

Andy M

Jun 30, 2020

Christopher Nelsen

Jun 8, 2020

Reagan Morgart

Mar 16, 2020

Daniel Edward

Oct 1, 2019

Rachel Hudson

Jul 31, 2019

michael kelso

Jul 30, 2019

Rick Zieser

With Kailee and Elizabeth

Jul 6, 2019

Caroline Ulczycki

Jul 3, 2019

Paula Grace

Perfect place for a glacier swim and a snack on the rocks. 0.9mi

Jun 30, 2019

Haley Fischman

2.8mi — 1h 25m

Oct 26, 2018

Jared K

Sep 21, 2018

Tiffany Flournoy

Sep 12, 2018

Kevin & Nikki G

Aug 28, 2018

Diana A

Aug 1, 2018

Darlene Crandall

Jul 13, 2018

Jason Boak

Took on way to Sky Pond

Jul 9, 2018

Anna Bockhaus

Jul 8, 2018

Leah RK

Jun 28, 2018

Gina Kuzmick

Gorgeous, moderately challenging hike that culminates with a view of beautiful, blue Lake Haiyaha. Definitely worth a repeat.

Dec 21, 2017

Nat Wolfe

2.4mi

Dec 13, 2017

Crispin Brim

Nov 24, 2017

Kristen Stanley

Nov 4, 2017

Jessica Robertson

With Natalie Susan, their roommate Alison and her friend kelly 5mi

Oct 28, 2017

Heather Hunger

Oct 8, 2017

Trail 360

Check out a 4K 360 view of this trail on YouTube. https://youtu.be/LjlWIYhi-QQ Know what to expect before you head out to the trailhead! 1mi — 0h 25m

Sep 15, 2017

John Copp

Sep 2, 2017

Alyssa Shames

Sep 1, 2017

Joey Earnhardt

Aug 27, 2017

Lisa Yeh

Aug 8, 2017

Eric Schmidt

Jun 30, 2017

Niranjan Sh

Smaller than Dream lake but less traveled and serene.

Jun 30, 2017

Eddie Monterrubio

2mi

Jun 18, 2017

Andrea C

Jan 7, 2017

Mike Langenkamp

4mi

Sep 11, 2016

Hannah Edwards

Aug 20, 2016

Abby Clark-Wimbley

Aug 1, 2016

Ryan Strathman

Jul 8, 2016

Suriah Bahr

Jul 1, 2016

Suriah Bahr

beautiful, ends abruptly at a little boulder field which ends abruptly at the lake. rainy, not crowded

Jun 20, 2016

Zachary Reid

Aug 2, 2013

Gabby Carrier

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Lake Haiyaha Trail

“A classic RMNP alpine lake trail. ”

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Point to Point

10,197' 3,108 m

9,848' 3,002 m

407' 124 m

253' 77 m

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