Pike and San Isabel National Forests · Colorado

West Tennessee Lakes

3.2 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 1499 · trail class 2 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse, bike

Trailhead West Tennessee Trailhead Drive there

West Tennessee Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up

No fee is charged.

West Tennessee Trailhead accesses the 3.3 mile West Tennessee Lakes Trail #1499. The last mile of the trail is in the Holy Cross Wilderness .

The Holy Cross Wilderness was established in 1980 to preserve its quality, character, and integrity. This area is intended to be a place where the imprint of humans is substantially unnoticed; where natural processes are the primary influences, and human activity is limited to primitive recreation and minimum tools. Please follow Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics to ensure that this and future generations experience this special place in its natural

The U.S. Forest Service has many partners, including Colorado Fourteeners Initiative that help protect and preserve Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks, or "Fourteeners", through active stewardship and public education.

Restrictions <ul><li><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/psicc/specialplaces/?cid=stelprd3795315">Wilderness regulations apply</a>&nbsp;in the Holy Cross Wilderness.</li><li>Please help protect sensitive wildlife habitat by restricting horse use away from the lake at the end of the trail and water horses elsewhere. Concentrate all other use to the established system trail.</li></ul>

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About this trail's facts

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.