Lower Paintrock Lake Campground
Campground
Campground · 1.7 mi from the trail
Wyoming · Hiking · Near Hyattville
North High Park
- 5.7 mi
- round trip
- 11 ft
- climb
- 9,659 ft
- high point
- Out and back
- route
- Jun–Sep
- best months
Is North High Park open right now?
Alert in the area
The Forest Service lists an alert for Medicine Wheel Ranger District.
Forest Special Order 02-02-03-25-05 Shell Falls Interpretive Site Closure
Agency alert covering Medicine Wheel Ranger District · Order 02-02-03-25-05 · USFS · Medicine Wheel Ranger District
As of · Source: USFS · Medicine Wheel Ranger District. Agencies don't list every closure — check before you go.
North High Park is a moderate hike in the Medicine Wheel Ranger District of Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming, about 5.7 miles long. It starts and ends at roughly 9,100 feet and climbs to about 9,660 feet, so it's an out-and-back route with a low total gain of 11 feet. The trail is natural-surface and carries horses, and bikes are not allowed. Summer is the most comfortable time to go. Typical averages from the Burgess Junction weather station, about 28 miles away, put July highs near 71°F with lows around 42°F. That station sits well below the trail, so temperatures up high run cooler. Lower Paintrock Lake Campground is about 1.7 miles away, and Medicine Lodge Lake Campground is about 2 miles off. The Kiny White Trail and North High Park Trail both lie about 1.5 miles away.
Around this trail
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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors
More in Hyattville- Kiny White TrailHiking1.5 mi
- North High Park TrailHiking1.5 mi
- Lower Paintrock Lake CampgroundCamping1.7 mi
- Medicine Lodge Lake CampgroundCamping2 mi
- Lower Medicine LodgeHiking2.1 mi
- Medicine Lodge CreekCanoeing6.6 mi
Cloud Peak Wilderness AreaRock climbingPhoto: PJsg1011, CC0 (via Wikimedia Commons)8.5 mi- Paint Rock CreekCanoeing9.1 mi
Source: Roamze catalog (indexable pages within 10 miles, PostGIS distance)
- Kiny White TrailHiking · ~3 min drive
- North High Park TrailHiking · ~3 min drive
- Main PaintrockHiking · ~4 min drive
- EdelmanHiking · ~4 min drive
- Lower Medicine LodgeHiking · ~4 min drive
- Main Paintrock TrailHiking · ~8 min drive
- Cliff LakeHiking · ~9 min drive
- KINKY WHITE CUTOFFHiking · ~5 min drive
- Bald RidgeHiking · ~15 min drive
- EdelmanHiking · ~10 min drive
Also worth it near here
- Sheepherder LakeLake fishing · ~10 min drive
- Medicine Lodge CreekCanoeing · ~11 min drive
Black Tooth MountainSummit · ~14 min drivePhoto: Ttharp at English Wikipedia, Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)- Cloud Peak Wilderness AreaRock climbing · ~15 min drivePhoto: PJsg1011, CC0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
- The ArchNatural arch · ~16 min drive
Best time to visit North High Park
Best months: June–September. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
30° / 8°
Feb
29° / 7°
Mar
35° / 13°
Apr
41° / 18°
May
50° / 28°
Jun
61° / 35°
Jul
71° / 42°
Aug
70° / 41°
Sep
61° / 33°
Oct
46° / 23°
Nov
36° / 15°
Dec
29° / 8°
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Burgess Junction, WY, 27.8 mi away at 8,060 ft. The station sits about 1,600 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
