Hikes near Beaver Creek/Vail

If you want to do a 14er, there are a number in the area, including Quandary Mountain which is probably the easiest of the 14ers in Colorado to summit. If you coming from sea level it will still be and feel like quite an achievement to reach the top.

It is admittedly not the most interesting hike but a great introduction to summiting high mountains.

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If you want to do a 14er, there are a number in the area, including Quandary Mountain which is probably the easiest of the 14ers in Colorado to summit. If you coming from sea level it will still be and feel like quite an achievement to reach the top. It is admittedly not the most interesting hike but a great introduction to summiting high mountains

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There’s a lot of easier awesome hikes in the area, but if you’re gonna do a 14er near Vail/Avon, you might as well do Mt Elbert. It’s the highest peak in Colorado and it’s about at the same level as Quandary. Now, I will for-warn anyone, any 14er is bitch. Its a mental game, and I would not suggest it to anyone who isn’t used to doing that, but one reason to hike a mountain like Elbert is to say you hiked the tallest mountain in Colorado.

For 7/4, redstone is 1.5hr from vail and has a great small town July 4 parade, tons of fun

friend! How do you make a parking reservation please?

thanks!!!!

BTW, get the COTREX app.

Got every trail in CO and you can download the map of your trail before going, letting you use GPS vs non-existent cell coverage to pathfind if need be.