Little Dry Creek Trail is a short creek link with a longer reach

The Adams County piece of Little Dry Creek Trail is short, but it shows how north-metro trails really fit together. It begins where Little Dry Creek spills into Clear Creek, joining the Clear Creek Trail at 64th Avenue, then follows the creek west toward Lowell and 69th. Walk it and you would never guess you were crossing one of the busiest seams in the metro trail network.

Past that point the trail does not end so much as change hands. After Federal Boulevard, the path keeps running toward Standley Lake, but the City of Westminster takes over its care. The creek and the pavement carry on without a seam underfoot; the agency behind them quietly switches at the city line, where the county hands the route off and Westminster picks it up.

That handoff is easy to miss on the ground, and it matters most when something goes wrong. A washed-out stretch, a winter closure, or an out-of-date map points you to a different office depending on which side of the line you are standing on. The creek does not care about boundaries, but the crews who fix the trail and post the signs do. Knowing the route crosses from county to city tells you whom to ask first.

For the Adams County stretch and where it connects onward, the county’s Trails & Open Space page and trail guide map this segment alongside its neighbors.