Name: Rawhide Trail
Rating: 4.2

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Rawhide starts off with smooth, wide doubletrack that rolls just a bit until you hit a campground and the intersection with Waterhole Trail. Turn left on singletrack and encounter some water bars. Contour around a hill on nice, fairly easy trail with great scenery.

You'll pass the other end of Waterhole, and continue on good singletrack until you start descending steeply to a creek bottom. Once at the creek bottom, there is a half mile of very steep trail with more large water bars.

Doing the trail the other way will get the steep sections over with faster, but it's not necessarily better in either direction.

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Land Manager: Jefferson County, CO - Open Space Dept.

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Ben Pontecorvo with improvements by Nancy Snyder

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Trail Ratings

4.2 from 43 votes

#1

in White Ranch Park

#89

Overall

4.2 from 43 votes

5 Star		42%
4 Star		42%
3 Star		14%
2 Star		2%
1 Star		0%

Trail Rankings

#1

in White Ranch Park

#26

in Colorado

#89

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Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

There are many great rocks along the trail mixed in among the trees.

Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

A Culvert for the creek. It was heavily shaded so there was quite a bit of snow when most of the trail was dry.

Nov 20, 2019 near Golden, CO

Apr 28, 2019 near Golden, CO

Apr 28, 2019 near Golden, CO

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Mar 1, 2025

Sueyeun Lee

Nov 3, 2024

Anonymous

Aug 25, 2024

Private User

Aug 2, 2024

Jeff Gembicki

Jul 28, 2024

Appalachian Red

Apr 9, 2024

Gina G

Sep 11, 2023

Cory K

1mi

Aug 7, 2023

Kristi Maulding

5mi — 1h 00m

Jul 7, 2023

Lynette Larson

Jun 24, 2023

Private User

Dec 10, 2022

Private User

Oct 2, 2022

Matt Culpepper

Lower loop: WTS Field Day #3 2mi

Apr 1, 2022

An Vu

Feb 13, 2022

Private User

Aug 2, 2021

Rich Guess

Apr 24, 2021

Rachel Solorio

5.4mi

Jan 23, 2021

Ari R.

Dec 8, 2020

Ryan William

Nov 21, 2020

Dan Federico

Oct 21, 2020

Private User

Oct 3, 2020

Daylene York

5.4mi

Sep 12, 2020

Raphael Marquez

5.4mi — 2h 30m

Sep 12, 2020

Jennifer Simms

5.4mi

Jul 27, 2020

Spencer Dupee

Flowers are out in full force 5.4mi — 1h 20m

Jul 16, 2020

Amy Navvab

With Harrison took the connector short cut instead of full loop. Went clockwise, never felt too steep 4.6mi

Jul 1, 2020

Ollie Davis

5.4mi

May 4, 2020

Matt Kohn

Apr 28, 2020

Ashlee Moreno

Dry and Windy start! — 4h 37m

Apr 11, 2020

Ronald Burnett

5.4mi — 3h 08m

Apr 5, 2020

Jonathan Bihl

Mar 29, 2020

Private User

Mar 29, 2020

Rachel Solorio

Patches of snow and ice. Didn't need microspikes but they wouldn't hurt. 5.4mi

Mar 15, 2020

Gretchen Walker

Quarantine hike with Mary and Dan

Mar 7, 2020

Paul A.

About to roll out. Jerry, cash, me and Arty!

Feb 22, 2020

Kim Chrislip

w Jer & Sam. Snowy and slushy the whole way. Spikes were a must 5.4mi — 2h 24m

Feb 2, 2020

Mamcentee

5.5mi — 2h 07m

Dec 1, 2019

Josh M

Sep 17, 2019

Luke Farlow

1h 15m

Aug 17, 2019

Alyssa Johanson

Not very difficult. Only 800 feet elevation gain

Aug 11, 2019

David Herbst

Jul 31, 2019

Nathaniel Morrison

Jun 16, 2019

Carolyn C

Good for visitors; can shorten. Good views

Jun 6, 2019

Martin Connor

2h 19m

May 27, 2019

G Vegas

5.4mi — 2h 08m

May 26, 2019

Peter Nesbitt

We did it backward accidentally. Beautiful views and great hike. 5.3mi — 1h 53m

May 20, 2019

Arthur Shune

5.4mi — 2h 00m

May 5, 2019

Brian K

May 5, 2019

Private User

Apr 28, 2019

Chris Hauska

Great condition for a trail run. Windy. 5.1mi

Mar 10, 2019

Rick Procopio

Group hike 5.8mi — 2h 32m

Feb 1, 2019

CYN TSUNAMI

No snowshoes required. Easy to find trail. Good. Not epic.

Nov 29, 2018

Kim Chrislip

w/ Sam. 5.4mi

Sep 9, 2018

Nick Hubbuck

Aug 17, 2018

Kim Chrislip

W Holly 5.4mi

Jun 17, 2018

Charlotte Crawford

May 5, 2018

Tim Tucker

Feb 8, 2018

Rick Procopio

5.3mi

Dec 9, 2017

Brittany Moroney

Trail run with Ava. Ran 4, walked 1 5mi

Oct 29, 2017

Jesse Wales

Sep 12, 2017

Lynn Lester

6mi

Jul 30, 2017

Ben Allain

4.7mi

Jul 8, 2017

Danielle Walker

Jun 11, 2017

Cristi P

May 24, 2017

Kelly Hogan

4.7mi

May 7, 2017

Neanderthal Guy

sweet trail with camp spots 1.6 mi in going CW 5.9mi

Sep 18, 2016

Sean Kershaw

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Rawhide Trail

“An undulating singletrack loop with a long steep section near the end. ”

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