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- Award-winning Author Mark Obmascik to Headline CFI’s June 26th Season Kick-off Event in Avon
– May 11, 2012
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative kicks off its 2012 field season protecting summit hiking trails on Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks with an evening program and book signing featuring … Read More
- CFI Headquarters Takes Direct Hit
– May 3, 2012
Having your office wrapped in crime scene tape is never a good way to start the week. But that is what CFI faced on Monday … Read More
- Mount Bierstadt Google Earth flyover video launched
– February 25, 2012
You may have heard about CFI’s Sustainable Trails Project, but see how using Google Earth Pro allows us to bring our field work to life … Read More
- CFI Seasonal Job Announcements Posted
– February 7, 2012
CFI is looking for 12 enthusiastic, hard-working seasonal staff leaders/members to complete our most ambitious project season in years. If you think you have what … Read More
Uncompahgre Peak
- Elevation:14,309 feet (6th highest)
- Maps:USGS Quads: Uncompahgre Peak and Wetterhorn Peak
Trails Illustrated® – TOPO Map # 141
Click here to purchase Trails Illustrated® maps for this route. - Contact:US Forest Service, Gunnison Ranger District (970) 641-0471
Recommended Route
Nellie Creek Route—use of this route will help to reduce impacts to this Fourteener’s fragile alpine environment. For detailed route information including photos, maps, and elevation profiles, click here.
Route Information and Additional Resources
The trailhead is approximately 6 miles west of Lake City, CO. The Nellie Creek road becomes a foot trail at the Uncompahgre Wilderness Boundary. The trail is well traveled and easy to follow as it goes west to the southeast ridge of Uncompahgre. The US Forest Service constructed this trail in 1997.
For route descriptions check guidebooks on Colorado’s Fourteeners Keep in mind that not all guidebooks will list this recommended route and that each guidebook’s description or route name may vary slightly. We suggest checking multiple guidebooks before departing on any hike.
Peak Specific Environmental and Safety Concerns
Due to sensitivity of the alpine environment, it is critical that climbers stay on the trail. Do not cut switchbacks. There is an endangered species along this trail. Hikers are encouraged not to camp along the trail. Camp below the trailhead.
Dispose of Waste Properly. There is a toilet at the trailhead, hikers are encouraged to use it. If unable to use the toilet, please use proper Leave No Trace practices (i.e. below timberline, bury waste in a “cat hole” and pack out toilet paper. Above timberline, pack out all solid human and dog waste.)
No butterfly collecting is allowed in this area.
Please travel in small groups. Group size should not exceed 25 (including pack animals).