At a Glance
Difficulty
Hard
Distance (one-way)
8.0 miles
Elevation
11,067 ft
Elevation Gain
N/A
Trailhead
North Inlet TH or off-trail
Park Area
Continental Divide / Flattop Area
Side of Divide
West
Coordinates
40.3069°N, 105.7347°W
Continental Divide / Flattop Area

Snowdrift Lake

Remote; west of Divide

Photo coming soon — North Inlet TH or off-trail approach

About Snowdrift Lake

Snowdrift Lake has its own place in the Continental Divide / Flattop Area landscape: a hard lake at 11,067 feet. It sits on the west side of the Continental Divide.

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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