Three Sisters Hidden Fawn Trail
September 5, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Hidden Fawn Train in 3 Sisters Open Space Park - Evergreen, CO - September 5, 2009.
A great hike today at Three Sisters around the Hidden Fawn Trail. As you can tell, it was a beautiful day! It’s hard to believe it’s September already and the Aspens are starting to turn. It seems way too soon for it to be September. Fortunately, the wonderful weather now is making up for all the rain we had earlier in the summer.
The Hidden Fawn Trail is 1.2 miles and is relatively flat and easy to do for small children. We had our 2 and they did awesome on it! It’s also a great mountain bike ride and we saw a lot of bikers going around it in addition to some other hikers. I think this will be my next warm up mountain bike ride this weekend. Then up and over the sisters for a bit more of a challenge. Then probably across the highway up Evergreen Mountain for a good work out of the day!
Three Sisters Hike with Purple Iris
June 6, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
We went for a late hike yesterday to Three Sisters to walk around the meadow look and let the kids climb on the rocks. We had a great time! I also found out for the first time that this time of year the meadow is FULL of beautiful, wild, Purple Iris! They were incredibly stunning and I have never seen them growing in the wild before and I would highly recommend going out there soon to see them. (also saw some bluebirds too!)
The trail we were on was the Bluebird Meadow and Wild Iris Loop from the upper (west) parking lot off of Buffalo Park Road. This is a great place to start hiking as it pretty gentle and out in the open and you have good access to the 3 Sisters and the Brother.
The Alderfer/Three Sisters Park has 770 acres of open space and over 10 miles of trail for hiking and mountain biking and connects to the Evergreen Recreation District property. There are some really nice short loops that you can do late in the day after work and some longer loops you can do for a good half day experience.
The spectacular views from the Sisters and the Brother include views of town, and Evergreen Lake.
To contact Jefferson County Open Space:
Open Space
700 Jefferson County Parkway
Golden, CO 80401
303-271-5925
Office Hours:
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Monday – Friday
For a copy of the Alderfer / 3 Sisters trail map from Jefferson County Open Space, Click here.
