Marshall Mesa Trail – Boulder Colorado

Thursday, November 10, 2016

One of the better things about traveling around to new places is exploring. And there are few better ways to explore someplace new than hiking. Being so close to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains makes it an easy drive to feel like I’m in the middle of nowhere.

Today’s adventure brought me out to the outskirts of Boulder where I wandered along the Marshall Mesa, Marshall Valley and Community Ditch trails. The weather was perfect and the vegetation gave the notion that fall has left and that winter would soon be here. The trails loop together and I decided to follow them clockwise from the trailhead. In spring and summer months the land doubles as pasture for neighboring cattle but today they were nowhere to be found.

The path led me through beautiful country for close to 2.5 miles and I will definitely be coming back after winter thaws to spring…

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Valley Trail leading to Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Marshall Mesa outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Community Ditch Trail outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Community Ditch Trail outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Community Ditch Trail outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.

Community Ditch Trail outside of Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, November 10, 2016.