Hike to Mount Ida in Rocky Mountain National Park | Challenge Hikes

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Mount Ida - 4.9 miles

Trail Type: Challenge Hike
Trailhead: Poudre Lake at Milner Pass
Beginning Elevation: 10,758'
Destination Elevation: 12,880'
Total Elevation Gain: 2,122'
Total Roundtrip Miles: 9.8

Mt Ida trail, Rocky Mountain National Park

Trail to Mt Ida

Trail Description
The destination for this hike in Rocky Mountain National Park is off the main trail and requires some backcountry navigation skills including map reading skills and an awareness of the lay of the land. These are sensitive areas, please travel carefully.

Make sure to get an early start for this hike, since almost the entire hike is above treeline and there is high potential of getting caught in an afternoon lightening storm. At Milner Pass, follow the Ute Trail a short ways, then branch off on the path going to the right that rises up into the alpine and follows the Continental Divide.

How to Get There
From Estes Park, travel approximately 28 miles up and over Trail Ridge Road, dropping down part way on the West Side to Poudre Lake at Milner Pass.

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