Paradise Park – PMags.com https://pmags.com Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Mon, 19 Jun 2017 01:23:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pmags.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-fav-ico-160x160.jpg Paradise Park – PMags.com https://pmags.com 32 32 81463906 This Side of Paradise https://pmags.com/this-side-of-paradise https://pmags.com/this-side-of-paradise#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:00:56 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=1852 This Side of Paradise

Sometimes the most memorable trips are ones of perfect weather, far reaching views and where the whole day seems to be done delight after another.

This was not one of those trips.

The hike for this past weekend, was to enter Paradise by going through Hell. Into Hell's Canyon, over Hell's Pass and then a descent into Paradise Park. A total of just under 20 miles and 3500' gain. Eight miles of this route would be 'schwacking.

Hell's Canyon and Hell's Pass are in national forest lands that borders Rocky Mtn National Park. Paradise Park is unique in that NO camping is allowed nor are horses. It is also trail-less. A steep price to pay, but a magnificent area to see.

We drove from Boulder Fri night, stashed my truck at a trail head (and having to explain to a Park ranger what we were doing at a National Park TH at 9pm at night.

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