About Murphy Lake
Murphy Lake asks for a hard outing by this site's scale, with 8.0 miles listed one-way from North Inlet TH or off-trail. The lake itself sits at 11,221 feet in Continental Divide / Flattop Area.
The listed approach is 8.0 miles one-way from North Inlet TH or off-trail, but this should be treated as a route-finding objective rather than a simple maintained-trail hike. The setting is remote, west of Divide. In this area, this divide country is remote, high, and often more about navigation than maintained-trail hiking.
NPS describes Rocky Mountain National Park as spanning more than 415 square miles, and this divide country sits in the kind of interior terrain where mileage, elevation, and navigation all matter.
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