IntrepidXJ's Adventure Weblog

If you would like to complete The Grand Loop 4×4 Trail, you will need to connect the end of Tabeguache 4×4 Trail with the Kokopelli trailhead in Loma. I would suggest continuing on down Monument Road and entering the Colorado National Monument. Here you can follow the main road through the park and exit near Fruita.

Even though this section is all paved, it is a very scenic drive with a number of great overlooks and hiking trails. You will need to pay admission to enter the park.

This is the preferred route to connect the Tabeguache and the Kokopelli to complete The Grand Loop 4×4 Trail.

GPS Tracks for the Colorado National Monument Connector

  Google Earth Track (Version 1)

    GPX Track (Version 1)

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments about the Colorado National Monument Connector, please feel free to post them below.

This page was last updated on: 12/19/2009

Here’s a map I made in Google Earth with all my tracks in the San Juans up until this point. Hopefully next year I can add even more GPS tracks to the map Click the map for a larger image.

I have not been very happy with the maps I have been using for my trail writeups, so I spent some time working on better maps with more waypoints added this evening. I’ll be working on updating the trail writeups over the next few weeks/months as well as posting better Google Earth KML files.

Here’s a few of the maps I have completed this evening

Click on the smaller maps above for a larger version.

When I write-up my weekend trips and trails on my website here, I like to use the mountain range name to help identify the area that I am in. While I know where these ranges are located, it has been brought to my attention that not everyone does.

Because of that, I have found a map of Colorado that shows where all of the major mountain ranges are located. Hopefully this will help out your explorations in Colorado or when you are following along with mine

I may go though in the future and add some more features to this map, but this one should suffice for now.

Here’s a map I made in Google Earth of the trails that we ran on Saturday. In the order that we ran them…

Pink: Poughkeepsie Gulch
Blue: Hurricane Pass
Yellow: Corkscrew Pass
Orange: Brown Mountain
Dark Red: US Basin & Browns Gulch
Green: Porphyry Basin

Here’s a map of all the trails I ran in the Elk Mountains last weekend. It includes these trails (from top to bottom for duplicate colors):

Green: Lead King Basin
Blue: Crystal City
Yellow: Schofield Pass
Orange: Rustler Gulch
Red: Gothic Road
Green: Paradise Basin
Purple: Washington Gulch
Yellow: Gunsight Pass
Light Blue: Kebler Pass

If you would like a GPS track of these trails, check out each individual trail writeup on my site

Here’s a map of the track we took yesterday on Grand Mesa. You can see all the switchbacks on Lands End Road.

If you want the GPX file, you can download it here

Here’s a map from from yesterday’s trip starting in Jacks Canyon to Divide Road and then headed to Dominguez Canyon, Dominguez Ridge, Brushy Ridge, Palmer Gulch and finally Escalante Canyon. The yellow route is the way we went yesterday and the red route is Divide Road that I travelled last year.

The GPX file for yesterday’s trip can be found here.

While in the San Rafael Swell last weekend, I used Amanda’s Garmin eTrex Venture HC to keep GPS tracks from both days. Here’s the map from Google Earth.

I’ll also attach the KML file here if you would like to play around with it.

Here’s a topo map from my day at Turkey Bay last Friday (click the map for a larger image).