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Outdoors and wildfire - Fremont County
The land around the Royal Gorge Bridge is a city park, not a private resort
Royal Gorge Park west of Cañon City is owned by the City of Cañon City as a large mountain park, with the famous bridge run as one attraction inside it.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Baca County
Hunting the Comanche Grassland means knowing two sets of rules
Hunting on Comanche National Grassland means following CPW game rules and Forest Service land rules while keeping clear of private property.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Fremont County
Garden Park near Cañon City is public fossil land, not a free-for-all
The Garden Park Fossil Area north of Cañon City is federal public land with protections, so visiting it comes with rules about digging for and collecting fossils.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Las Animas County
Las Animas County's plains edge holds part of the Comanche National Grassland
The eastern side of the county includes a piece of the Comanche National Grassland, open prairie and canyon country the Forest Service manages where public access takes some planning.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Mesa County
McInnis Canyons and Black Ridge: BLM land with its own rules
The red-rock canyons west of Grand Junction are a BLM National Conservation Area, and the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness inside it limits land travel to foot and horseback.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - San Juan County
Around Silverton, dispersed camping follows Forest Service rules
Much of the land around Silverton is San Juan National Forest, where dispersed camping and motorized travel follow designated-route rules, not 'camp anywhere.'
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Alamosa County
Dispersed camping in the Rio Grande National Forest
The Rio Grande National Forest around the San Luis Valley allows free dispersed camping outside developed campgrounds, but with real limits on where you park, how close to water, and how long you stay.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Garfield County
The Roan Plateau is the high wall of cliffs above Rifle and Parachute
The Roan Plateau and Roan Cliffs rise north of the Colorado River near Rifle and Parachute, a deeply cut BLM landscape with waterfalls, box canyons, and habitat for elk, deer, and native cutthroat trout.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
The wild horse range north of Grand Junction
The Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range near Grand Junction is one of a small number of areas set aside under federal law specifically to protect wild horses.
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