Name: Rawhide Trail
Rating: 4.2

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Water bars and continual grade reversals make this an interesting run.

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Rawhide starts off with smooth, wide doubletrack that rolls just a bit until you hit a campground and the intersection with Waterhole Trail. Turn left on singletrack and encounter some water bars. Contour around a hill on nice, fairly easy trail with great scenery.

You'll pass the other end of Waterhole, and continue on good singletrack until you start descending steeply to a creek bottom. Once at the creek bottom, there is a half mile of very steep trail with more large water bars.

Doing the trail the other way will get the steep sections over with faster, but it's not necessarily better in either direction.

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Land Manager: Jefferson County, CO - Open Space Dept.

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Ben Pontecorvo with improvements by Nancy Snyder

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Trail Ratings

4.2 from 43 votes

#1

in White Ranch Park

#91

Overall

4.2 from 43 votes

5 Star		42%
4 Star		42%
3 Star		14%
2 Star		2%
1 Star		0%

Trail Rankings

#1

in White Ranch Park

#26

in Colorado

#91

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6,190 Since Jul 13, 2013

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Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

There are many great rocks along the trail mixed in among the trees.

Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

Nov 17, 2019 near Golden, CO

A Culvert for the creek. It was heavily shaded so there was quite a bit of snow when most of the trail was dry.

Nov 20, 2019 near Golden, CO

Apr 28, 2019 near Golden, CO

Apr 28, 2019 near Golden, CO

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Jan 17, 2026

Atsuko Ohtake

Dec 13, 2024

Atsuko Ohtake

Jul 7, 2024

Jeff Mangold

May 14, 2024

Atsuko Ohtake

Dec 14, 2023

Atsuko Ohtake

Dec 4, 2022

Atsuko Ohtake

Oct 12, 2022

Jonathan Voss

Dec 23, 2021

Atsuko Ohtake

Aug 29, 2021

Josh M

May 12, 2021

Shannon Consolo

2mi

Aug 22, 2020

Toko Morimoto

Jun 13, 2020

Stephen F

May 25, 2020

Matt H

8mi

Jan 20, 2020

Geimi Chism

Very icy 5.6mi — 1h 40m

Sep 16, 2019

Emma H-p

After being sick it was a good trail to start on. Well maintained. Trail forces you to practice downhill and uphill running techniques. 5.4mi — 0h 54m

Sep 7, 2019

Stephen K

Aug 4, 2019

Josh M

Jul 30, 2019

Emily Knapp

5.4mi — 1h 26m

Jul 20, 2019

Troy Foster

Dry. 5.9mi

Jul 11, 2019

Stephen K

Jul 9, 2019

Dave Kruse

5.4mi — 1h 02m

Jul 7, 2019

Hannah Kellner

4.5mi — 1h 15m

Jun 30, 2019

Kelly Carlin

Fail 5.4mi

May 27, 2019

Josh M

May 17, 2019

Emily Knapp

awesome track. lots of hills. definitely will do it again. 5.4mi — 1h 15m

Apr 28, 2019

Chris Hauska

Great trail. All clear. 5.1mi — 0h 56m

Jun 10, 2018

David Wire

Run early morning or on cooler days. 5mi — 1h 09m

Jun 10, 2018

Melanie Howard

Beautiful trail. All dry with one small creek to cross with stepping stones. Snakes are out. 5mi

May 13, 2018

Josh M

Mar 18, 2018

Josh M

Jan 13, 2018

Josh M

Nov 18, 2017

Toko Morimoto

Aug 17, 2017

Toko Morimoto

May 24, 2017

Ben Tyler

Apr 16, 2017

Hector Reyes

the last stretch to back to the trailhead was blocked because of "hazardous conditions" at mile 4.2 or so. 8.2mi

Apr 15, 2017

Lynda Wacht

Apr 15, 2017

Geimi Chism

4.7mi

Mar 19, 2017

Brooke Webster

4.5mi

Jan 20, 2017

JG Hauser

Clockwise. Climbs seemed steeper in this direction. First half is more exposed, second is more wooded. Will try counterclockwise next time.

Sep 15, 2016

Mark Sc

Aug 27, 2016

Ashley Parnell

Jun 4, 2016

Dave Kruse

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Rawhide Trail

“An undulating singletrack loop with a long steep section near the end. ”

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7,534' 2,296 m

7,089' 2,161 m

766' 234 m

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