Mount Edwards sits on the Continental Divide just east of Grays Peak, straddling Clear Creek and Summit counties in the Arapaho National Forest. It's a tundra and scree summit in old silver country, where mine roads and ruins still mark the valleys on both sides, and the top looks straight across to Grays and Torreys Peak.
Two routes see most of the traffic. From the east, the Waldorf Mine route starts near 11,600 feet on the Leavenworth Creek road above Georgetown, follows a creek into the basin below the peak, climbs to the Edwards-McClellan saddle, and finishes up the northeast ridge. It's Class 2, about 4.5 miles and 2,400 feet round trip, with McClellan Mountain an easy half-mile add-on. Those figures assume a 4WD drive up the rough Leavenworth Creek road; 2WD cars park at the Waldorf turnoff, which adds about 4.5 miles each way. From the west, the southwest ridge leaves the Argentine Pass trailhead above Peru Creek near Keystone, climbs the old pass trail to the Divide at 13,200 feet, then follows the crest north over Point 13,484 to the summit, about 8 miles and 2,950 feet round trip. Argentine Peak is a short detour from the pass.
There's no trail above the eastern basin, but the ridge walking is straightforward. Wildflowers fill the drainage from late June through July. Snow and ice cover the ridges in winter, and the exposed Divide is a poor place to linger when summer storms build.
