Life List: Colorado Trail

Bag a peak every day (and a view every step) on the country's highest-elevation footpath.

Author:: BACKPACKER Editors
Updated:: Feb 14, 2017
Original:: May 27, 2010

| Best of the Colorado Trail |

| Top Peaks |

| Find Solitude |

The top peaks for every type of hiker.

Find your hike on the country's highest footpath.

Learn where solitude reigns--and why. Plus: Tackle the hardest Big Ditch route we've ever published.

Hike like a conquistador through Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

A definitive guide to the hottest, sweetest, looniest, and most colorful spots in the great outdoors.

The Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park is a place of reckoning and, given its trackless nature, a place of choices. To a young man who came of age here, it offers perspective on paths not taken.

Glacier Peak

Stand alone atop Washington's Glacier Peak--a summit that others rarely see, let alone climb.

Hike into the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness and you'll enjoy Colorado's best summer school.

Besides being home to a mythical reptile, Colorado's Lizard Head Wilderness is the site of some great hiking.