The Browns Creek Trail offers beautiful scenery with changing vistas and vegetation. The trail follows the stream and small waterfalls can be found along the way. This trail is most popular with hikers and horseback riders. For more information please contact the San Isabel Ranger District office in Salida at 325 W. Hwy 50 or call 719-539-3591.

TO TRAILHEAD: From Highway 285, midway between Poncha Spings and Buena Vista, take County Road  270 west for 1.5 miles to a 4-way intersection.  From the stop sign, continue traveling west.  The road continues as County Road 272.  Stay on CR 272 for approximately 2 miles.  A sign at the cattle guard will indicate  your entrance to National Forest lands.  At the 2-mile point, watch for an intersection.  At this intersection, CR 272 turns left and travels south for 1.5 miles to the Browns Creek Trailhead.