12/12/2025 Posted On: 12/21/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: I HAD TO PARK AT MILE 5.25 BECAUSE OF DEEP SNOW. ONE VEHICLE MADE IT ANOTHER QUARTER OF A MILE. NO VEHICLE TRACKS PAST THAT, AND NO VEHICLES AT THE TRAILHEAD. SNOW ON THE TOAD IN LAST 2 MILES WAS 12 TO 18 INCHES DEEP. | ||||
11/14/2025 Posted On: 11/22/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: NO SNOW AT ALL, AND VERY LITTLE WATER IN THE LAST 2 MILES. | ||||
11/7/2025 Posted On: 11/9/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: Very little water on the road to the trailhead. NO SNOW OR ICE ON ROAD. | ||||
10/17/2025 Posted On: 10/18/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: AFTER FINDING OUT THAT THIS TRAILHEAD IS NOW OPEN AGAIN, A FRIEND AND I WENT UP THERE YESTERDAY. ROAD IS MORE ROUGH BETWEEN MILE 6 AND 7 THSN LAST YEAR. FINAL 2 MILES NORMAL ROUGH SPOTS. NEW PARKING LOT IS EXCELLENT, WITH VERY STURDY STEEL DIVIDERS SEPARATING PARKING SPOTS. NEW VAULT TOILETS ARE EXCELLENT ABD CLEAN WITH A LOT OF TP. TRAIL TO LOWER BLUE LAKE IS DRY, SND OTHERS REPORTED NO REAL SNOW ACCUMULATION, UNTIL JUST ABOVE UPPER BLUE LAKE, ON THE WAY TO BLUE LAKES PASS. | ||||
5/22/2025 Posted On: 5/23/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: Road is dry to the trailhead. Trail dry to wilderness boundary, a little snow until the creereek crossing. Deep posthole adventure, between knee and thigh deep from creek onward towards lower BLUE lake. | ||||
5/6/2025 Posted On: 5/6/2025 By: PaulineAnna Info: OURAY, Colo. (May 1, 2025) — The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests announce temporary closure of Blue Lakes area for trailhead construction and restoration efforts, beginning June 2. The closure is expected to remain through August 2025 and will be lifted as soon as it is safe to access the area. | ||||
5/2/2025 Posted On: 5/2/2025 By: BillMiddlebrook Info: Starting June 2, 2025, the trailhead will be CLOSED for the summer! GMUG National Forests announce temporary closure of the Blue Lakes area for trailhead construction and restoration efforts. The closure is expected to remain through August 2025 and will be lifted as soon as it is safe to access the area. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/gmug/newsroom/releases/gmug-national-forests-temporarily-close-blue-lakes-area | ||||
12/21/2024 Posted On: 1/30/2025 By: ltlFish99 Info: Snow starts at mile 3, much deeper by miles 5 and 6, with a 5 to six inch snow hawk. We parked at mile 7, as snow was to deep for my vehicle. One vehicle that attempted to go past that point, got stuck .25 mile past mile 7, and had to turn around. we got stuck on the way out, and had to dig out with my shovel. Restroom at the trailhead had too much snow blocking access. | ||||
7/12/2024 Posted On: 7/26/2024 By: ltlFish99 Info: Dry to the trailhead, and to Lower blue lake. The Road has been graded nicely between mile 6 and 7.5, as it is much smoother than before. | ||||
5/27/2024 Posted On: 5/27/2024 By: supranihilest Info: Dry to the trailhead. Bathroom is open. Trail conditions are mostly dry for the first mile and a half or so to the wilderness boundary, patchy to the creek crossing, and then continuous from that point onward. Once the trail begins rising above the creek and traversing the steep forest below "S 4" the packed trail becomes very narrow, typically a foot or two wide, and is extremely icy in the mornings and soft and slippery later in the day. A slip off the trail would send you down the 30-40 degree forested slope. I recommend at least microspikes and appreciated wearing crampons (the only traction we had) up and down it. We saw unprepared hikers in just tennis shoes up where they'd have a hard time getting down. Snowshoes wouldn't really be too useful due to how narrow the trail is right now, and our group didn't try to ski down it either. | 2 |
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11/10/2023 Posted On: 11/13/2023 By: ltlFish99 Info: More snow than last week. Snow on the road starts at mile 7, and is consistent from mile 8 to the trailhead. Trailhead parking lot is all packed snow. | ||||
11/3/2023 Posted On: 11/8/2023 By: ltlFish99 Info: Road is dry until mile 7, then muddy. The last mile has some snow and ice, about 3 inches . | ||||
10/28/2023 Posted On: 11/2/2023 By: ltlFish99 Info: Road is rough in the last 2 miles, as usual. There has been some grading on the road, as it is much smoother than it normally is, especially between mile 6 and mile 7. Very little water, a couple of mud holes, but no snow at all on the road. Restroom open, with no toilet paper. | ||||
10/13/2023 Posted On: 10/15/2023 By: ltlFish99 Info: Road is rough in the last 2 miles, as usual, with very little water, a couple of mud holes, but no snow at all on the road. Restroom open, with no toilet paper. | ||||
10/9/2023 Posted On: 10/10/2023 By: supranihilest Info: The last few miles of the road is rough and covered with medium sized rocks, but people were still driving low clearance sedans to the trailhead. Personally I wouldn't, it'd take forever and you'd no doubt bottom out, but it is possible. Otherwise only one instance of muddy potholes, and some large muddy spots at the trailhead itself. |
