About Box Lake
Box Lake sits in a part of RMNP where terrain context matters: Wild Basin, 10,732 feet, east of the Continental Divide. This guide treats it as a hard lake.
Wild Basin is a deep southeast corner of the park, with waterfalls, long forested approaches, and many high lakes. It lies near Bluebird Lake. The approach from Wild Basin TH is 5.3 miles one-way and belongs in the hard tier for this guide.
NPS hiking and wilderness tables list Wild Basin routes to Ouzel Falls, Ouzel Lake, Thunder Lake, Finch Lake, Pear Lake, and Sandbeach Lake, making this southeast corner one of the park's densest lake-and-waterfall regions.
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