Hancock Lake

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Partially Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 05/21/2023

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Open for .5 miles with deep snow.

JP

500

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 09/24/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Camped at Iron City Campground as a base camp. First time running this trail. Ran Pomeroy Lakes the day before. Very similar trails, but I think this trail was a little easier (and shorter). Rained a lot two days before so there was water running down the middle of the trail in places, but nothing significant. Liked Hancock Lake better than Pomeroy. Fishing wasn't productive at either location, but liked it enough to do it again.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 07/03/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Fishing with the family. Had the lake all to ourselves.

Obtuse Angler

950

Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 06/22/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Completely dry other than an occasional trickle down the trail. Most of the lake's shoreline is boggy so be prepared to get your feet wet if fishing. Mid-week was pretty quiet - saw just 2 other vehicles (SxS).

Josh Spring

13550

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/18/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

I’ve driven this trail several times and enjoy it. Pretty rocky and bumpy most of the way up, on par with the rest of Colorado. The last half is more difficult than the first half. Today was the busiest I’ve seen it and the mosquitos were out in force. Oh and lots of hikers on the road as they do the CDT trail.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/02/2022

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Today we opened the trail to the lake parking area. Still some deep snow in places but within a few days our tracks will be melted out.

Andrew M

400

Partially Open

Rated 4/5

Visited: 10/16/2021

Difficulty Accuracy: Spot On

Started up to the lake mid afternoon. Snow from a couple days ago still on most of the trail. We turned around after loosing traction on an icy hill. Reports from hikers that the lake is frozen over.

Obtuse Angler

950

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/10/2021

Always enjoy this one. Just enough of a challenge to keep it interesting and nice scenery, but damn those pine beetles. Hungry cutthroat in the lake, some of them good-sized.

Kevin

3100

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 07/17/2021

Fun and quick trail. We did see a Moose which was exciting. Bumpy but not technical trail

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/14/2021

Trail is fully open to the lake parking lot.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Partially Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 06/01/2021

Open for 1 mile with heavy snow.

Gavin Gilmore

1500

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 09/26/2020

It's a really fun, short offroading run up to the lake. We were camping with our friends near the start of the trail, one of whom is new to offroad driving, and they were able to fairly easily navigate the trail up to the lake. There was one small section between waypoints 7 and 8 that was narrow around a tree but other than that it was easy for our friend's stock Jeep and my Tacoma with a levelling kit. The lake is beautiful and the views were amazing.

Trint Ladd

Official Crew

37200

Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 08/10/2020

We ran Hancock Lake and Pomeroy Lakes on a Monday morning. Maybe it's because we got an early start, but it was so quiet and peaceful. We just saw a couple of runners.

Joseph Vallier

600

Open

Visited: 07/14/2019

Trail is fully open to the top. 7/13

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Partially Open

Rated 5/5

Visited: 07/07/2019

Trail is open to right at treeline where large drifts are still present. Should be a week or two before being fully open.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Impassable

Visited: 07/02/2019

Trail is still impassable due to heavy snow and debris issues. This status will be updated when the trail is passable.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Impassable

Visited: 11/01/2018

Snow has fallen closing this trail for the winter.

Cathy D

600

Open

Visited: 08/03/2018

Trail seemed rockier than previous years. We rode the trail in 2 side by sides and an ATV. Started the day going over Tincup Pass, then on to Grizzly Lake, over Hancock Pass, then over Cumberland Pass back to Taylor Park. On the down side of Hancock near the Alpine Tunnel, a dirt bike rider had crashed in the middle of the trail causing a long back up of traffic both ways. Luckily no one was hurt. It was a long day, almost 90 miles round trip, but amazing scenery and lots of wild flowers!

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Open

Visited: 05/27/2018

Trail is fully open.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Partially Open

Visited: 05/19/2018

Trail is currently open to Waypoint 4 due to snow. I expect the trail to be fully open within the next 2 weeks.

Marcus Trusty

Official Crew

32850

Permanently Closed

Visited: 12/26/2017

Snow has fallen closing this trail for the winter.

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