Pikes Peak Snow Melt
Barr Trail Snow Free Dates*
*The trail is easily passable well before the last snow melts.The dates below represent the first day you could ascend the
peak via the Barr Trail without touching ANY snow!
By Matt Carpenter
2023 - July 18th
2022 - June 25th
2021 - June 19th
2020 - June 8th
2019 - July 12th
2018 - June 4th (and Manitou has been on fire and has water restrictions)
2017 - July 9th
2016 - July 5th
2015 - August 5th (May broke the all-time any-month rain record from 1935.)
2014 - June 28th
2013 - June 26th
2012 - May 31st (and the forest fires about 3 weeks later closed the Barr Trail)
2011 - June 28th
2010 - July 4th
2009 - July 19th
2008 - June 25th
2007 - July 12th
2006 - May 26th
2005 - June 29th
2004 - June 15th
2003 - July 7th
2002 - May 20th (and the forest fires closed Pike National Forest) I made this since the FS set it...
2001 - July 3rd
2000 - June 13th
1999 - July 19th
1998 - July 4th
1997 - July 6th
May 1, 1997 at 9:00am
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July 1, 1997 at 9:00am
(Exactly two months later)
The May picture was taken just a few days
after a record snowstorm that dumped a
reported 5 feet of snow at Barr Camp. I got
2 feet in my driveway — what a workout!
I was thinking it would never melt but just two
months later it was all but gone. This started
my quest to track the Barr Trail snow free date.