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Backpacking the Doubletop Mountain / Summit Lake / Heart Lake loop in Wyoming's Wind River Range

In Part 4 of our 2025 Western Adventure series, we backpacked Doubletop Mountain Trail and Heart Lake Trails in Wyoming's Wind River Mountain Range. Day 1: Hiked from New Fork Lake Trailhead, then Doubletop Mountain Trail past Rainbow Lake, with a brief side trip overlooking New Fork Park. Camped near Doubletop summit 10,892'. ~9 miles for the day. Day 2: Hiked Doubletop Mountain trail past Palmer, Cutthroat Lakes, No Name Lakes, Summit Lake. Hiked Summit Lake Trail down past Borum Lake to Gottfried Lake. Hiked up Heart Lake Trail past Heart Lake to Dean Lake. Beautiful scenery, but lots of up and down. 10.7 miles for the day. Day 3: Hiked from Dean Lake west to Palmer Lake Trail, took steep outfitter's trail shortcut up to Doubletop Mountain trail, hiked out to trailhead. 10.7 miles for the day. (30.4 mile trip total). Saw very few people on this trip: no hikers on day 1 after leaving the trailhead; four on day 2 near No Name Lakes; a small group on horseback near New Fork Lakes on day 3. Trip was July 27th-29th, 2025.