Sevenmile Creek

If driving through lush, forested pockets of the Colorado Rockies and no shortage of water crossings sounds like your style of offroading, look no further than Sevenmile Creek. Just one hour from the Fort Collins area, this trail offers almost year-round access (minus two months during heavy spring runoff) to offroad enthusiasts. Enjoying this trail in the summer is not to be missed as the stretches of wildflowers go on as far as the eye can see, as well as the occasional visit from the local moose, elk, and deer. As the season progresses, this trail offers leaf-peepers the deep yellow and orange Aspen trees the state is famous for. Once the long days of winter are here, you can experience the sound of snow compressing under your tires, the glistening of snow crystals, and the dead silence of winter.

The hard reality of this trail is that it hasn't always been paradise. Sections of this trail showcase the destruction of the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire, the largest fire in Colorado history. Large sections near the top of the trail are burnt to a crisp, but the Forest Service and the local offroad clubs worked together and re-opened this trail in late 2024. Sevenmile Creek still holds much of its beauty from the days before the fire and is genuinely a one-of-a-kind Colorado adventure that is not to be missed.