Mount Goliath
Arapaho National Forest
Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway
Evergreen, CO 80439
The road to Mount Goliath and Mount Blue Sky summit is anticipated to reopen on Friday, May 22.
Advance reservations are required through recreation.gov.
Mount Goliath is a peak high on the shoulders of Mount Blue Sky located outside of Idaho Springs within the Arapaho National Forest. Here in this fragile alpine environment, Denver Botanic Gardens oversees the highest cultivated garden in the U.S., managed in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service, Denver Mountain Parks and other collaborative partners. Visitors to Mount Goliath can enjoy the Dos Chappell Nature Center and surrounding cultivated gardens. The M. Walter Pesman Trail is three-mile loop, weaving through subalpine and alpine areas of bristlecone pines and wildflowers.
Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, the highest paved road in North America, climbs over 7,000 feet in its 28-mile length and reaches an altitude of 14,130 feet. The Scenic Byway offers visitors spectacular views of the Continental Divide, mountain goat and bighorn sheep herds, marmots, birds, alpine wildflowers and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine trees.
Mount Goliath is designated as a birding hotspot on the Cornell University's worldwide eBird community science website.
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