Tabor Pass is located 3.95 miles from Lincoln Creek Road in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. The Tabor Creek Trail runs through long stretches of alpine meadow with several large tarns up to the pass. Carry a good map and have a general understanding of the route before setting out. Visitors will enjoy expansive alpine landscapes, abundant flowers and great views en route to the pass. 

The Tabor Creek Trail fades once through treeline and hikers must follow a sparingly marked but intuitive path through broad alpine meadows to the pass

Looking down-valley over three large tarns between the 2.9 - 3.0 mile mark

Parry's Primrose is named after Charles C. Parry, an English physician of the 1800s who was the first botanist for the US Department of Agriculture

Travel moderates after 1 mile through long, level stretches of open meadow

There are 70 columbine species in the world and about 1/3 are native to North America

Looking over a cornice into the Galena Creek basin from Tabor Pass

The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness covers approximately 40 miles of the Continental Divide

Paintbrush is a member of the figwort family, a semi-parasitic plant that attaches to the roots of other plants to draw away nutrients

View down the Galena Creek drainage from Tabor Pass, which can be followed on an x-country route to Ruby Mine Road

The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness likely has the highest average elevation of any wilderness area in the lower 48 states

Globe Flower's scientific name (Trollius laxus) comes from the Latin word Troll (globe) and Lax (loose)

Tabor Peak (13,282') tops the west valley wall

Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) is a perennial herb in the rose family

A large tarn at the head of Galena Creek on the south side of Tabor Pass

Elephants Head (Pedicularis groenlandica), a member of the figwort family (which also includes foxglove and snapdragons), favors damp alpine meadows

Old Man of the Mountain (an alpine sunflower) may take 70 years to flower, and flowers only once before dying

Monkshood, a member of the buttercup family, is actually quite poisonous to both people and livestock

Large tarns in the upper valley serve as a useful navigation point between treeline and the pass

Dusky Beardtongue is a type of alpine penstemon

It's advisable not to consume wild mushrooms since edible and poisonous species can be very difficult to distinguish

'Bi' (Latin for 'twice') and 'Torta' ('twisted') refer to the contorted rhizome roots in some species of bistort (swcoloradowildflowers.com)

The Tabor Creek Trail runs 3.95 miles from Lincoln Creek Road to Tabor Pass