Turkey Flats Loop Trail

Whether you are looking to get out on a longer hiking route to improve your physical fitness or are simply hoping to enjoy the calm that comes from exploring a dense stretch of forest, the Turkey Flats Loop Trail is an excellent trail that will be sure not to disappoint.

Setting out from the roadside parking area, you will head south across the road and enter into the cover of the forest, passing through the atmospheric woodland landscape before climbing uphill to the southeast. Here, you will head right at a fork in the path and and continue on along the waters of Haypress Creek.

After climbing uphill to reach a junction with the Ridge Trail, you will turn left and follow it to the northeast, eventually following the aptly named North East Creek downhill to arrive at the shores of the Fruita Reservoir No.1. After passing by the reservoir, you will continue through the forest to the north, eventually turning to the southwest across the undulating terrain to arrive back at the initial junction from earlier on your hike. Turning right here, you will follow the trail back through the forest on the return to the trailhead where you began.