Cheyenne, WY: Savage Run Trail
This 12.4-mile out-and-back is in country so wild, so remote, and so loaded with wildlife not even locals know much about this wilderness in the corner of Medicine Bow National Forest.
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Trail Facts
- Distance: 10.0
Waypoints
SRW001
Location: 41.2189178466797, -106.360870361328
Trail unfolds S, rolling over sandy waterbars into the shady relief of Savage Run Wilderness
SRW002
Location: 41.208366394043, -106.361083984375
Keep quiet! Moose graze in grassy bog on L
SRW006
Location: 41.188850402832, -106.373985290527
Trail leaves sharp cliffside; nurse logs offer a good lunch spot
SRW007
Location: 41.186351776123, -106.380149841309
Creek motors down hillside
SRW008
Location: 41.1825332641602, -106.387580871582
Lots of treefall and tinder; large boulder pile sits alone in woods
SRW009
Location: 41.1818008422852, -106.389198303223
Keep straight @ junction with Trail 502; look for deer and black-bear prints in muddy creek banks
SRW010
Location: 41.1797828674316, -106.403282165527
Short climb; occasional views downstream
SRW011
Location: 41.1798820495606, -106.411750793457
Cross swift stream. Loop option: Ambitious hikers can follow streambed NE and pick up the rugged track of FR 500.3A, then head E back to trailhead
SRW013
Location: 41.1773338317871, -106.413780212402
In fall, a golden pocket of aspen; good campsites on S side of creek
SRW014
Location: 41.1709518432617, -106.417098999023
End @ junction with Trail 501A, a spur trail to FR 512; return to trailhead. (Note: Savage Run Trail continues SW for 2 mi. but dead-ends @ private property line)
SRW012
Location: 41.1781845092773, -106.414031982422
Faint pack trail leads R; stay along Savage Run
SRW005
Location: 41.194450378418, -106.365051269531
Trail washed out; stay on R side of bank
SRW004
Location: 41.1977005004883, -106.359519958496
Bite-sized trout swim in deep pool surrounded by cascades, logjams
SRW003
Location: 41.2030487060547, -106.355331420898
Small campsite on opposite side of creek