Lamartine Mine Jeep Road

Elite '09

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Jim W.

Chandler, AZ

2/24/2008

The Lamartine Mine Jeep Road takes you deep into the Pike National Forest near the Mount Evans Wilderness.  It is a pretty quick drive up here from Denver.  Map to the Phoenix Gold Mine (834 County Rd. 136, Idaho Springs) and continue past it for a couple miles.  The road gets progressively rougher as you go.

You will pass some old, crumbling mine buildings on your right and a large tailing pile on your left.  Just after that, turn right and head up and into the wilderness.

This is absolutely a jeep road, no pretenders please.  You do not want to get towed out of here or leave parts of your ride somewhere in the mountains.

The best time to head out here is summer.  Seriously.  I have been out here in the height of summer to camp and seldom see more than 3-4 people.  Don't bother coming up here after hunting season starts, unless that's why you are here.  You will run across all sorts of armed strangers...

You are in the shadows of Mount Evans and well into the Rocky Mountain wilderness up here and it is awesome.  Make sure you are prepared and someone knows where you're headed and when you'll be back.

My first time up here our camp was passed by an old Bronco with a lift kit and all the fancy gear...limping along with busted up undercarriage and a hole somewhere leaking oil...He didn't really appreciate that I was out here in my old beater of a Subaru wagon, but I'm a special driver-don't try it.  I showed my wife pictures when I got back and she blurted out a stunned, "That's not a road!  You had the Subaru there?"

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