Hermosa Area Trail System
Dutch Creek Trail
Jones Creek / Pinkerton-Flagstaff / Dutch Creek Loop: To access the Jones Creek / Pinkerton-Flagstaff / Dutch Creek Loop from the trailhead parking spot near the bathroom, backtrack on Lower Hermosa Road.
Jones Creek Trail starts several hundred yards up the road on your right.
- Length
- 11 Miles
- Climb
- 2500 Feet
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- From Durango
- 35 Miles
Getting there
Southern Hermosa Creek Access Northern Hermosa Creek Access To access Hermosa Creek Southern parking spot: From Durango, take highway 550 North from Town and turn left at Hermosa Park Road. Cross the railroad tracks and follow up the road to the southern Hermosa Creek Trailhead located about 4 miles up Lower Hermosa Road which starts near the railroad track crossing in the small town of Hermosa north of Durango. Find the trail heading north near the junction of several dirt roads near the parking spot.
Where it starts
The pin marks an end of the mapped trail. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Trail layout

The line is the mapped path. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.