Directions
The Pines Lodge
141 Scott Hill Road, Beaver Creek, CO 81620-5405
Piney River Ranch
303.905.4439
Piney River Ranch is located 12 miles from West Vail at the end of Red Sandstone Road. The physical address is 700 Red Sandstone Road. Please note that GPS systems will only take you to the beginning of the U.S. Forest Service road that leads to the ranch. You must travel 12 miles past that point to reach the ranch entrance.
From Avon, take I-70 East to Exit 173 - West Vail Exit. Go left round the roundabout and under the highway. Turn right onto N. Frontage Road. Go past the shops and the post office and turn left onto Red Sandstone Road. Turn north here and follow the paved road about 0.7 miles to a fork with a dirt road on the left. There should be a Forest Service sign indicating this is Red Sandstone Road #700 (Reset your odometer here). Continue up this road about 2.7 miles to an intersection with the Lost Lake Road (#786) and continue left. At mile 6.5 you will pass Red and White Mtn Road-FSR 734. At mile 6.7 you will pass the Lost Lake Trail parking lot on the right and then reach an intersection where the Muddy Pass/Moniger Road goes left. Stay right here. (Some maps show the Red Sandstone Road changing number from FSR 700 to FSR 701 at this point, and some don’t, but regardless, you stay right to get to Piney Lake and the Upper Piney River Trail). At mile 9.1, you will cross the Piney River and see a trailhead for Lower Piney River Trail - FDT 1885 on the left. Stay right and reach a Forest Service parking lot on the right at mile 10.65 before the entrance to Piney River Ranch. If you are only hiking we request you park in this lot. The trailhead is on the north side (left side of the parking lot as one faces the Piney River Ranch entrance) of the parking lot. If visiting the ranch, you can drive further to our parking lot.
The road is not paved, so it can be a little rough—however, four-wheel drive is not necessary. Please plan for delays due to logging operations. Please allow at least 40 minutes from the start of the dirt road.
Colorado Whitewater Rafting
2000 Devereux Road
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
970-945-8477
Take Interstate 70, to the West, Glenwood Springs. Exit #114 - West Glenwood. Take round-a-bout to Midland Ave southbound, cross the river, and make immediate left on Devereux Rd (at the Harley Davidson dealership). We are 0.4 miles down on the right.
141 Scott Hill Road, Beaver Creek, CO 81620-5405
Piney River Ranch
303.905.4439
Piney River Ranch is located 12 miles from West Vail at the end of Red Sandstone Road. The physical address is 700 Red Sandstone Road. Please note that GPS systems will only take you to the beginning of the U.S. Forest Service road that leads to the ranch. You must travel 12 miles past that point to reach the ranch entrance.
From Avon, take I-70 East to Exit 173 - West Vail Exit. Go left round the roundabout and under the highway. Turn right onto N. Frontage Road. Go past the shops and the post office and turn left onto Red Sandstone Road. Turn north here and follow the paved road about 0.7 miles to a fork with a dirt road on the left. There should be a Forest Service sign indicating this is Red Sandstone Road #700 (Reset your odometer here). Continue up this road about 2.7 miles to an intersection with the Lost Lake Road (#786) and continue left. At mile 6.5 you will pass Red and White Mtn Road-FSR 734. At mile 6.7 you will pass the Lost Lake Trail parking lot on the right and then reach an intersection where the Muddy Pass/Moniger Road goes left. Stay right here. (Some maps show the Red Sandstone Road changing number from FSR 700 to FSR 701 at this point, and some don’t, but regardless, you stay right to get to Piney Lake and the Upper Piney River Trail). At mile 9.1, you will cross the Piney River and see a trailhead for Lower Piney River Trail - FDT 1885 on the left. Stay right and reach a Forest Service parking lot on the right at mile 10.65 before the entrance to Piney River Ranch. If you are only hiking we request you park in this lot. The trailhead is on the north side (left side of the parking lot as one faces the Piney River Ranch entrance) of the parking lot. If visiting the ranch, you can drive further to our parking lot.
The road is not paved, so it can be a little rough—however, four-wheel drive is not necessary. Please plan for delays due to logging operations. Please allow at least 40 minutes from the start of the dirt road.
Colorado Whitewater Rafting
2000 Devereux Road
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
970-945-8477
Take Interstate 70, to the West, Glenwood Springs. Exit #114 - West Glenwood. Take round-a-bout to Midland Ave southbound, cross the river, and make immediate left on Devereux Rd (at the Harley Davidson dealership). We are 0.4 miles down on the right.