Though not as well-known as Rocky Mountain National Park's Emerald Lake Trail or the famed Maroon Bells near Aspen, Colorado's Ice Lake Trail offers some of the most stunning mountain scenery in ...

From here, the trail climbs dramatically—roughly 750 feet in one mile of rocky terrain—to Upper Ice Lake, a glacial tarn whose waters ... The West Elks are known as some of the most dramatic mountains ...

This scene lies at the summit of Ice Lake, one of Southwest Colorado’s most popular hiking trails just west of Silverton. The base of the trail is an entirely different picture. The parking lot ...

Welcome to Colorado’s ultimate winter wonderland ... A Forest Service webpage sets the expectation: “Ice Lake Trail #505 is a wildly popular trail, so do not expect solitude.” ...