One-way Distance: 0.8 miles
Difficulty: Easy
MTB Skill level:
Elevation: 6364 - 6448 feet
Cellphone: 2-4 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Buzzard Gulch
Fee: none
Attractions: Short connector
Bull Snake is part of the Buzzard Gulch Trails in the Dry Creek Recreation Area near Montrose, Colorado. The trail begins off of the Buzzard Gulch trail where it arches out across a sagebrush flat and reconnects to the Buzzard Gulch trail less than a half mile from where it first left it. Enroute it is connected to by the lower end of the Rusty Buckets trail.
This post begins at the upper end of Bull Snake at the 1.7 mile point of the Buzzard Gulch trail.
The trail starts out on a dirt singletrack as it works its way through some junipers.
With very little to slow it down in the way of rocks or other features the trail travels fast and smooth.
Right around the quarter mile point the Rusty Buckets trail branches off on the right.
Bull Snake makes a left hand turn after passing Rusty Buckets traveling parallel with Buzzard Gulch.
Out of all the Buzzard Gulch trails Bull Snake is probably the easiest.
The scenery in the background continually changes from the San Juan Mountains and Uncompahgre Wilderness to the south to the Grand Mesa further north.
As the route bends back around toward the Buzzard Gulch trail it finds a large sagebrush flat to travel across.
