Camping & Operations

Itineraries at Glance

The following information is specific to 2011 treks only. You may wish to use it for general planning purposes for 2012 treks. The official 2012 trek itinerary information will be posted in March 2012. You may also want to refer to the our quick-reference Programs Offered by Itinerary document to help determine which programs occur at the various staff camps.

Itinerary #1 - 51 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Vaca
  • Deer Lake Mesa
  • Cimarroncito
  • Cimarroncito
  • Shaefers Pass
  • Black Mountain
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Fish Camp
  • Abreu

Itinerary #2 - 51 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Vaca
  • Deer Lake
  • Webster Parks
  • Sawmill
  • Comanche Peak
  • Comanche Creek
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Carson Meadows
  • Zastrow

Itinerary #3 - 52 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Ute Springs
  • Webster Parks
  • Sawmill
  • Mount Phillips
  • Comanche Creek
  • Apache Springs
  • Apache Springs
  • Fish Camp
  • Crater Lake
  • Abreu

Itinerary #4 - 53 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Old Abreu
  • Crags
  • Fish Camp
  • Apache Springs
  • Apache Springs
  • Wild Horse
  • Mount Phillips
  • Cyphers Mine
  • Cimarroncito
  • Clarks Fork

Itinerary #5 - 56 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Anasazi
  • Indian Writings
  • Ponil
  • Dean Cow
  • Harlan
  • Ute Springs
  • Sawmill
  • Lamberts Mine
  • Upper Clarks Fork
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #6 - 71 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Campos Heck
  • Dean Cow
  • Head of Dean
  • Baldy Town
  • Baldy Town
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Rich Cabins
  • Iris Park
  • Cook Canyon
  • Indian Writings

Itinerary #7 - 56 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Sioux
  • Dan Beard
  • Iris Park
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Rich Cabins
  • Pueblano Ruins
  • Baldy Town
  • Baldy Town
  • Head of Dean
  • Ponil

Itinerary #8 - 62 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging 
Itinerary | Map

  • Rayado River
  • Toothache Springs
  • Miners Park
  • Lookout Meadow
  • Apache Springs
  • Apache Springs
  • Comanche Creek
  • Clear Creek
  • Red Hills
  • Clarks Fork

Itinerary #9 - 51 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Anasazi
  • Old Camp
  • Dan Beard
  • Rich Cabins
  • Pueblano Ruins
  • Black Horse
  • Black Horse
  • Baldy Skyline
  • Pueblano
  • Ponil

Itinerary #10 - 57 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Aguila
  • Abreu
  • Fish Camp
  • Apache Springs
  • Crooked Creek
  • Mount Phillips
  • Sawmill
  • Cathedral Rock
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #11 - 54 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Olympia
  • Zastrow
  • Carson Meadows
  • Agua Fria
  • Wild Horse
  • Clear Creek
  • Cyphers Mine
  • Cimarroncito
  • Cimarroncito
  • Upper Clarks Fork

Itinerary #12 - 61 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Urraca
  • Zastrow
  • Lower Bonito
  • Buck Creek
  • Crooked Creek
  • Mount Phillips
  • Sawmill
  • Vaca
  • Dean Cow

Itinerary #13 - 57 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Anasazi
  • Indian Writings
  • Ponil
  • Pueblano
  • Ute Meadows
  • Ute Meadows
  • Head of Dean
  • New Dean
  • Dean Cow
  • Harlan

Itinerary #14 - 60 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Rayado River
  • Urraca
  • Miners Park
  • Black Mountain
  • Comanche Creek
  • Comanche Peak
  • Lower Sawmill
  • Hunting Lodge
  • Upper Clarks Fork
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #15 - 63 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Urraca
  • Crater Lake
  • Bear Canyon
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Crooked Creek
  • Clear Creek
  • Red Hills
  • Ponderosa Park

Itinerary #16 - 65 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Olympia
  • Carson Meadows
  • Lost Cabin
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Black Mountain
  • Red Hills
  • Cyphers Mine
  • Hunting Lodge
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #17 - 65 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Urraca
  • Crater lake
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Crooked Creek
  • Clear Creek
  • Thunder Ridge
  • Cathedral Rock
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #18 - 67 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Crater lake
  • Black Mountain
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Porcupine
  • Mount Phillips
  • Cimarroncito
  • Cimarroncito
  • Tooth Ridge

Itinerary #19 - 66 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Cimarron River
  • Deer Lake Mesa
  • Aspen Springs
  • Lamberts Mine
  • Clear Creek
  • Crooked Creek
  • Beaubien
  • Beaubien
  • Abreu
  • Miners Park

Itinerary #20 - 63 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Bent
  • Dan Beard
  • Iris Park
  • Ring Place
  • Ring Place
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Copper Park
  • Copper Park
  • Elkhorn
  • Ponil

Itinerary #21 - 68 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Sioux
  • Flume Canyon
  • Head of Dean
  • Ute Meadows
  • Ute Meadows
  • Santa Claus
  • Upper Bench
  • Cimarroncito
  • Cimarroncito
  • Ponderosa Park

Itinerary #22 - 70 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Rayado River
  • Lower Bonito
  • Miners Park
  • Ponderosa Park
  • Cimarroncito
  • Visto Grande
  • Head of Dean
  • Miranda
  • Miranda
  • Elkhorn

Itinerary #23 - 75 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Cimarron River
  • Santa Claus
  • Maxwell
  • Ute Meadows
  • Ute Meadows
  • Rich Cabins
  • Ring Place
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Indian Writings

Itinerary #24 - 73 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Rugged
Itinerary | Map

  • Sioux
  • Pueblano
  • Baldy Town
  • Baldy Town
  • Santa Claus
  • Devils Wash Basin
  • Clarks Fork
  • Cyphers Mine
  • Red Hills
  • Shaefers Pass

Itinerary #25 - 75 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Olympia
  • Bear Caves
  • Shaefers Pass
  • Hunting Lodge
  • Visto Grande
  • Head of Dean
  • Miranda
  • Miranda
  • Flume Canyon
  • Ponil

Itinerary #26 - 71 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Bent
  • Pueblano
  • Copper Park
  • Copper Park
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Seally Canyon
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Cook Canyon
  • Indian Writings
  • Ponil

Itinerary #27 - 78 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Dean Cutoff
  • Rich Cabins
  • Upper Greenwood
  • Ewells Park
  • Ewells Park
  • Upper Dean Cow
  • Dean Cow
  • Harlan
  • Ute Springs
  • Clarks Fork

Itinerary #28 - 68 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Anasazi
  • Old Camp
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Danbeard
  • Ponil
  • Pueblano Ruins
  • New Dean
  • Slate Hill Heck
  • Dean Cow

Itinerary #29 - 79 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Rimrock Park
  • Urraca
  • Miners Park
  • Clarks Fork
  • Harlan
  • Visto Grande
  • Santa Claus
  • Miranda
  • Miranda
  • Flume Canyon

Itinerary #30 - 81 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Dean Cutoff
  • Pueblano
  • Ewells park
  • Ewells Park
  • Head of Dean
  • Visto Grande
  • Sawmill
  • Mount Phillips
  • Beaubien
  • North Fork Urraca

Itinerary #31 - 67 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Super Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Ute Springs
  • Harlan
  • Turkey Creek
  • Baldy Town
  • Baldy Town
  • Head of Dean
  • Ponil
  • New Dean
  • Dean Cow
  • Dean Heck

Itinerary #32 - 82 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Super Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • House Canyon
  • Old Camp
  • Ponil
  • Pueblano
  • Miranda
  • Miranda
  • Black Jacks
  • Harlan
  • Cimarroncito
  • Ponderosa Park

Itinerary #33 - 74 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Super Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Anasazi
  • Old Camp
  • Seally Canyon
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Copper Park
  • Copper Park
  • Pueblano
  • Upper Dean Cow
  • Dean Cow

Itinerary #34 - 98 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Super Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • Lovers Leap
  • Shaefers Pass
  • Porcupine
  • Comanche Peak
  • Ute Springs
  • Santa Claus
  • Baldy Town
  • Ewells Park
  • Dan Beard
  • Indian Writings

Itinerary #35 - 106 Mi.
Difficulty Level: Super Strenuous
Itinerary | Map

  • House Canyon
  • Cottonwood
  • Seally Canyon
  • Whiteman Vega
  • Greenwood Canyon
  • Baldy Town
  • Baldy Town
  • Santa Claus
  • Visto Grande
  • Upper Clarks Fork

 

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