Butterknife for COPMOBA 2015.cdr

Butterknife Trail / Windmill Road
Trail Difficulty for Mountain Bikes
Intermediate Singletrack Trail
Lunch
White outline indicates ATV two
track or 4wd road
Loop
Trailhead (restrooms, no water)
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Parking Area (undeveloped)
Information Kiosk
Hiking Trail (no bikes)
Difficult Singletrack Trail
Closed Trail (no anybody)
White outline indicates 4wd road
Trails
Bureau of Land Management
Unrated Singletrack Trail
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(We have another map
just for this area)
Private Property - No Trespassing
White outline indicates ATV two
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National Park Service
All of the trails open to mountain bikes are also open to motorized vehicles:
singletrack trails are open to motorcycles, and roads are open to ATVs and jeeps
as well. So keep an eye open for things that are faster and heavier than you.
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Elevation:
5,870 ft.
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Trailhead
CAUTION:
The Butterknife/Windmill Road loop
(also known as “The Magellan Loop”)
can be very physically demanding,
especially in the summer when it gets
really hot out here. Once you descend
to the river, it’s a long climb out and
there aren’t any short cuts. Take plenty
of water and know your limits.
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Elevation:
6,220 ft.
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NOTE: Just so you know,
the 6.9 mile long Windmill Road
climbs 1,990 feet. That’s an average
5.5% grade on a rough jeep road.
Enjoy.
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Elevation:
4,610 ft.
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No Restrooms
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Parking Area
west side of road
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Suggest accessing
Butterknife Trail via
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Little Park Road
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The eponymous windmill
along Windmill Road.
You’re almost half way up
the hill. Yea!
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Distance Between Points in Miles
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C 2015 James Hodge
Tra
This map was created for COPMOBA in
2015 using the best information available.
Mountain biking can be a dangerous sport
(and we all have the scars to prove it!), so
be careful and if anything does go wrong it
ain’t our fault. If you do have any
comments, compliments, or gripes you can
send them to:
[email protected]. This map
and other regional trail maps can be found
at www.copmoba.org
Elevation:
6,600 ft.
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Getting to the Trailhead
From Downtown Grand Junction: Take 7th Street north to Grand Avenue, turn
left (west). Go 1.4 miles to Monument Road (this will take you over the railroad
and over the river) and turn left. Go just 0.2 mile to D Road, turn left. (If you cross
the canal you went too far.) After 0.3 mile D Road turns right and becomes
Rosevale Road; go 0.9 mile on Rosevale Road to Little Park Road, turn right. Go
4.2 miles to the undeveloped Third Flats parking area (it’ll be on your right), or go
another 1.1 miles to start at the more developed Bangs Canyon Trailhead .