I found Trappers Lake breathtaking the first time I saw it, nearly a decade ago. It took my breath away again in early September, but this time it wasn’t the signature squared-off mountain and deep ...

As backcountry lodges go, Trappers Lake Lodge hardly boasted the size or majesty of the grand old structures gracing Grand Canyon or Yellowstone national parks. It was perhaps only 30 by 40 feet in ...

Beautiful Trappers Lake has been called "the Cradle of Wilderness" due to its role in sparking our nation's wilderness movement. Photo courtesy of Bradleyboulder via Wikimedia Commons The Local ...

Even if the fish aren’t biting, mountain-ringed Trappers Lake on the northwest side of the Flattops Wilderness Area is worth the trip for scenery alone. But the fish are biting, with native cutthroat ...

When my wife and I first visited Trappers Lake last year, we had no idea that the landscape of our lives would be changing as dramatically as that around the lake itself, following the Big Fish fire ...

A mother and her 14-year-old son were located and brought to safety Friday morning, with the help of some “good Samaritans,” after spending the night out in the backcountry in a remote part of ...

Trappers Lake was formally protected in 1920, and is now part of the Flat Tops Wilderness Area. Leopold, then an assistant district forester in New Mexico, had been contemplating ways of protecting ...

A lightning strike Sept. 1 ignited a wildfire on Himes Peak in the Flat Tops Wilderness, approximately 46 miles east of Meeker, according to a news release from the White River National Forest. The ...