Simms Mesa Aspen Grove

Rating: 
One-way Distance: 0.6 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 7882 - 7988 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Simms Mesa
Fee: none
Attractions: Forest hike

The Simms Mesa Aspen Grove trail, aka Simms Spur, is located in the Plateau Division of the Uncompahgre National Forest near Montrose, Colorado. The trail begins off of the Simms Mesa trail where it descends a draw down one side of a hill and loops around to the draw on the other side of the hill where it climbs back up to the Simms Mesa trail about a third of a mile from where it began.

Dave Wood Interpretive Trail

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.8 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 8025 - 8053 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Dave Wood
Fee: none
Attractions: Forest hike

The Dave Wood Interpretive trail, aka Simms Mesa Loop, is located in the Plateau Division of the Uncompahgre National Forest near Montrose, Colorado. The trail begins at the Forest Service boundary on the Dave Wood Road where it follows a scenic loop that leads it through thickets of oakbrush and tall stands of ponderosa pines. The trail is interpretive in nature with numbered posts along the way that point out a variety of aspects about the areas environment. A trail guide is available online from the Forest Services website to print out and take along.

Simms Mesa

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 4.2 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
MTB Skill level:
Elevation: 7991 - 8175 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 3 hrs.
Trailhead: Simms Mesa
Fee: none
Attractions: Forest trail

The Simms Mesa trail is located in the Plateau Division of the Uncompahgre National Forest near Montrose, Colorado. The trail begins off of the Dave Wood Road, FR #510, where it travels across the mesa before crossing a couple branches of the Happy Creek drainage. After continuing on across the mesa just past the 1.5 mile point it drops into Happy Canyon. After a short climb back out the other side of Happy Canyon the trail comes to an end once it reaches Forest Road #574.

Dry Creek Spur

Rating: 
One-way Distance: 1.2 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
MTB Skill level:
Elevation: 8870 - 9422 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Dry Creek Spur
Fee: none
Attractions: Rocky downhill

The Dry Creek Spur trail is located in the Plateau Division of the Uncompahgre National Forest near Montrose, Colorado. The trail begins off of the Divide Road where it travels across the plateau for almost a half mile before descending a rocky trail into the Dry Creek drainage where it comes to an end at a junction with the Dry Creek trail. Enroute it is connected to by the Buck Trail Spur.