Pole Creek Trail

Wyoming

Wyoming

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0.1 mi

Distance

49 ft

Gain

No verdict for this trail

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What we do know

  • Inside Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest

    2 managing-area boundaries mapped — agency alerts for them feed this page automatically.

    Boundary data

What's missing

  • No access route mapped

    We don't yet know which road reaches this trailhead, so we can't tell you if it's gated.

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Trail character

Surface
Singletrack

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Pole Creek Trail

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Elevation & route

Distance
0.1 mi
Elevation gain
62 ft
Elevation loss
62 ft
Highest point
8,614 ft
Lowest point
8,554 ft

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About this trail

Pole Creek Trail is a 0.15-mile out-and-back route in Wyoming with 32 feet of elevation gain. The trail follows singletrack terrain and is rated as moderate difficulty.

Permits & access

Managing agency
Forest Service

Facts about this trail

The climb

Starts at
8,602 ft
High point
8,614 ft
Total climbing
62 ft
Total descent
62 ft
Steepest stretch
2% grade right from the start
Length (round trip)
0.3 mi
Shape
Out and back

It's essentially flat.

Source: Roamze elevation profile and trail geometry (DEM samples along the mapped route)

Where it is

Managed by
Forest Service

Source: USFS EDW boundaries; USGS PAD-US 4.1

Conditions

Active alerts for Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest as of Oct 9, 2026:

Source: USFS forest alerts

Nearby

Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)

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