San Juan National Forest · Colorado
Coal Creek
3.0 mi of trail, end to end · native material surface · trail No. 677 · trail class 2 · typical grade 12-20% · tread 18-24 inches wide · hiking, horse, bike · seasonal: hiking 06/01-09/30
Begins at the forest's mile 0, 37.7084, -107.7684 - no trailhead mapped Drive to where the trail begins
Coal Creek Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up
The Coal Creek Trailhead is the beginning of Coal Creek Trail (581). The trail is 8.8 miles long. It begins at Forest Road 667 - East Fork Rd. and ends at Forest Road 666 - Fawn Gulch Road.
The trail is open for the following uses: Hiking and Horseback Riding. Off Highway Vehicles (OHV) less than or equal to 50 inches wide are allowed the first mile of the trail coming in from the Fawn Gulch Road side.
This trailhead on fs.usda.gov
Sand Creek Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up
Sand Creek Trailhead gives access to the Quartz Ridge Trail (570) and the Coal Creek Trail (581).
This trailhead on fs.usda.gov
Every trail in San Juan National Forest
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.
