Jun 19th 2020 – Colorado Parks and Wildlife #39 Trinidad Lake State Park
I was looking forward this this park imagining smooth trails which go around the man-made lake. Wrong!, the trails where poorly drawn and the northern trails were through rough land, up and down steep trails. It was hike and bike 30% of the trail. This is a remote state park and I could not get any briefing from park personnel as it was thinly staffed. Mid week there were hardly any people here. Very different from Denver’s Cherry Creek. I chose the paved roadway to get back to the trailhead and encountered long steep roads for several miles. But all went well and a great workout.
The second half of the day I tried the southern trail which traced a rail road track so was it was much more what I had in mind. I encountered a baby Elk calf stuck in barged wire. The photo below ends positively as the park staff were able to cut some barbed wire and free the small youngster elk.
