PHOTOS: New trails open at Fishers Peak State Park
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Parker SeiboldDecember 12, 2022 | updated 4 years ago
Three hikers make their way up Upper Lone Cub Trail, part of 11 miles of new trail at Fishers Peak State Park. ([email protected]://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b5a9c1795b3aa1497ffa7824b99c1d26?d=mm&r=g)
In October, eleven miles of new trails were opened at Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad, Colo. Gazette reporter Seth Boster and photographer Parker Seibold explored a large section of the newly opened trails on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2022. Here’s what they saw.
Three hikers make their way up Upper Lone Cub Trail, part of 11 miles of new trail at Fishers Peak State Park. ([email protected]://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b5a9c1795b3aa1497ffa7824b99c1d26?d=mm&r=g)Fishers Peak is seen from Upper Lone Cup Trail. Builders will soon return to the mountain to resume work on a trail to the summit. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette File)Top: Snowcapped peaks are seen beyond sandstone bluffs at Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad. Right: Denver Gazette reporter Seth Boster hikes a section of newly opened trail at Fishers Peak State Park on Dec 6. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette)A bird sits on a branch in a section of Fishers Peak Trail-Osita Ridge Section weaving through a forested area at Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette)Snowcapped peaks are seen beyond sandstone bluffs at Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad. ([email protected]://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b5a9c1795b3aa1497ffa7824b99c1d26?d=mm&r=g)Fishers Peak towers over Colorado’s newest state park on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. For decades, residents of Trinidad and the surrounding area have wondered if they would ever get to access the massive piece of rock protruding from the earth. Trial plans include access to the peak. (Fishers Peak. Parker Seibold)The Spanish Peaks and Trinidad Lake are seen from Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad early this month. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette)Towering pine trees cast shadows over Fishers Peak Trail-Osita Ridge Section at Fishers Peak State Park on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in Trinidad, Colo. (The Gazette, Parker Seibold) (Parker Seibold)A metal signs sits just beyond the parking lot near the start of the trail system at Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad, Colo., on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (The Gazette, Parker Seibold) (Parker Seibold)
