0 5/21/2025 Posted On: 5/21/2025 By: BillMiddlebrook Info: Closed through 2025. Construction | ||||
5/31/2024 Posted On: 5/31/2024 By: BillMiddlebrook Info: Open! | ||||
9/17/2023 Posted On: 9/18/2023 By: JasonCrane Info: I paid $12 for the Timed Entry Permit to park at Summit Lake Park TH. Mt. Evans Road is dry & free/clear of any snow. The upper road, past Summit Lake, is gated/closed. Summit Lake Park has a couple of restrooms & parking was somewhat limited. | 1 |
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10/3/2022 Posted On: 10/3/2022 By: Chicago Transplant Info: Closed for the season as of October 3, 2022. | ||||
9/25/2022 Posted On: 9/25/2022 By: iceman1212 Info: FYI - It looks like reservations are required for pull-offs that are fairly close to the Summit Lake parking lot. Had parked in one of these pulloffs yesterday and received a warning for not showing parking reservation. Probably need to drive farther out for free pull-off parking. | ||||
6/18/2022 Posted On: 6/18/2022 By: yaktoleft13 Info: Can confirm prior report that the parking lot on the right .25 miles before summit lake is fee free. It's not within the boundaries of summit lake park. Also the pulloffs further up the road, specifically the ones used for tour d'abyss, don't seem to be fee areas either. In fact, the fee areas seem rather limited: Goliath peak parking area, summit lake parking area, Evans summit parking area. | ||||
8/14/2021 Posted On: 8/14/2021 By: someguy9 Info: Almost full at 530, had to save spots for our friends. When we got back around 12 the lot was full and people were parking on the road. Not too Crowded today along the west ridge compared to bierstadt. | ||||
8/7/2021 Posted On: 8/9/2021 By: MidsizeAl Info: Didn't end up getting a valid reservation, but called the Forest Service and confirmed that I only needed one for Summit Lake, Goliath Park, and the Summit parking lot. I noticed a parking lot that sits about .25 miles to the northeast of Summit Lake (this does not show up on maps, but you can see on satellite imagery). I asked the nice lady that I spoke with about this lot, and she said no pass was necessary here. We opted for the unmarked lot and were the first car there at ~5:30 AM. The Summit Lake lot was nearly full at the same time, and people had begun parking on the side of the road. For whatever reason, few people seemed to park in our lot throughout the day, and opted instead to park along the road or cram into the Summit Lake lot. When we returned, there were only 5 other cars there, and no parking ticket! Highly recommend this! | ||||
7/18/2021 Posted On: 7/18/2021 By: astromuni Info: Confirmed you can arrive much earlier than when the booth opens (at 8am). But make sure you still have a parking reservation: I saw a ranger checking all the windshields. I arrived around 6:15 am (a July Sunday) and there was still a bunch of spots in the Summit Lake lot (it was maybe half full). It looks like it's totally fine for cars to park along the road (which is roughly flat in the area), and it didn't get much more crowded by mid-morning. The summit lot was a lot less crowded lol. Great bathrooms at both the trailhead and summit, which is obviously somewhat unique for a 14er :) | ||||
6/7/2021 Posted On: 6/7/2021 By: -wren- Info: Seems like timed entry reservations are only available for late in the day, starting at 8 am. If I go up early will the gate be locked this year? | 1 |
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7/21/2020 Posted On: 7/21/2020 By: JulieKurtz18 Info: My husband drove up today and Mt. Evans Road is closed for the rest of 2020 due to COVID. Don't go. | ||||
6/22/2020 Posted On: 6/22/2020 By: s_silverman Info: Road to Summit Lake closed at Echo parking lot. | 1 |
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6/4/2020 Posted On: 6/4/2020 By: dwoodward13 Info: Road will remained closed from Echo Lake to motorized vehicles for the remainder of 2020. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/arp/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD746971 | ||||
5/29/2020 Posted On: 5/29/2020 By: JeffR Info: Bikers rejoice! The road is 99% passable to the end without touching snow. There were only 4-5 sections after mile 10 where I had to hike-a-bike, and none were >50'. | ||||
5/15/2020 Posted On: 5/15/2020 By: JeffR Info: Hoofed it up the road this morning (yay, sprained-ankle rehab). Completely clear for the first 5+ miles, then snowpacked for ~1 mile, then random ice and snow until Summit Lake. A front-end-loader crew was in the midst of getting it on right where the road crosses to the east side of the ridge. Between that and Mother Nature, I'd wager that the road will be clear to SL within a week or so. Talked to the loader driver, their only plans for at least the next few weeks are to clear the road to SL. For the remainder, I imagine they'll wait for the sun to do most of their work (due to the late opening), then they'll come back during the last 2 weeks of June to finish the job. |
