Eccles Pass is located in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area and Dillon Ranger District of the White River National Forest. Eccles Pass straddles a high, divisive ridge between the Meadow Creek drainage (south), and South Willow Creek drainage (north). This remarkable vantage provides commanding views across each, and distant peaks of the Gore and Ten Mile ranges.

The Gore Range Trail is named after Sir St. George Gore, an Irish nobleman who led a hunting expedition across this mountain range in 1853

Aslike Clover (Trifolium Dasyphyllum) grows well in Meadow Creek's damp alpine meadows

Northerly panorama across the South Willow Creek drainage

Dusky Beardtongue is a less-common type of alpine penstemon

The saddle between Eccles and Red Buffalo Pass is dotted with alpine ponds and known for prolific flowers

Looking southeast across the Meadow Creek valley from Eccles Pass

Looking north from Eccles Pass; the headwaters of Gore Creek originate from lakes just over this ridge

The Gore Range Trail steepens through open tundra on the final approach to Eccles Pass

Alpine meadows along Meadow Creek beneath Eccles Pass attract elk and moose

Looking north from Eccles Pass toward Red Buffalo Pass

Looking west from Buffalo Mountain over Eccles Pass and the South Willow Creek Basin

By August, the lower portion of the trail fills out with raspberries and thimbleberries along the creek

Chief Mountain frames the south valley on the initial approach to Eccles Pass