Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests · Colorado
Trailhead Summit Flats Trailhead Drive there
Summit Lake Park, owned by the City of Denver, has a separate $5 pass. There is no fee for driving the road if visitors don't plan to stop at one of the three fee areas. · reservation required
Summit Flats Trailhead is located south of Idaho Springs on Hwy 5. It offers several summer recreation opportunities.
View a COTREX map here .
The lines are the US Forest Service's National Forest System trails layer (public domain), read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end, and the class, surface, grade and tread width are the forest's own entries where it publishes them - a forest that publishes the centreline alone has none. The trailheads and the points along the way are the Service's recreation points, and the write-ups its own recarea text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the forest's own site before you go.