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22 Porch Notes tagged “wilderness,” from counties across Colorado.
Outdoors and wildfire - Ouray County
Mount Sneffels sits in a wilderness, reached by a rough basin road
Mount Sneffels is a 14er inside the Mount Sneffels Wilderness southwest of Ouray, and the usual approach climbs Camp Bird Road through Yankee Boy Basin on a steep, high-clearance route.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Chaffee County
Chaffee County's fourteeners sit on national forest land
The Collegiate Peaks above Buena Vista are public peaks managed by the U.S. Forest Service, and some of the high country is designated wilderness with its own rules.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Eagle County
Holy Cross Wilderness has different rules than the forest around it
Many popular Eagle County trailheads lead into the Holy Cross Wilderness, where wilderness rules are stricter than on the rest of the White River National Forest.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Lake County
Mount Massive sits in a designated wilderness with stricter rules
Mount Massive and the country around it are inside the Mount Massive Wilderness, where wilderness rules limit what you can do beyond ordinary national forest.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Custer County
The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness rises right above Westcliffe
The high peaks west of Westcliffe sit inside a designated wilderness in the national forest, where the rules are stricter than on ordinary forest land.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Boulder County
Indian Peaks Wilderness has its own rules above the trailheads
The Indian Peaks Wilderness on Boulder County's western edge has special protections, including leashed-dog and overnight-permit rules, on top of regular national forest land.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Ouray County
The Uncompahgre Wilderness is big, quiet, and closed to motors and bikes
The Uncompahgre Wilderness covers a large stretch of the San Juans east of Ouray, with several trails leading in from the west and the usual wilderness limits on motors and bikes.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Garfield County
The Flat Tops Wilderness has different rules than a regular trail
Part of the Flat Tops Wilderness reaches into northern Garfield County, and designated wilderness comes with its own access and use rules that differ from ordinary national forest land.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Summit County
Eagles Nest Wilderness in the Gore Range has stricter rules than regular forest
The Eagles Nest Wilderness in the Gore Range west of Silverthorne is a designated wilderness, so no bikes or motors are allowed and camping and campfires follow special limits.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Montrose County
The Gunnison Gorge near Montrose is wild water reached on foot
North of Montrose, the BLM-managed Gunnison Gorge holds a wilderness and a Gold Medal trout river, reached by hiking in from Peach Valley Road trailheads.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Las Animas County
West of Aguilar, the Spanish Peaks rise into national forest and wilderness
The high country around the Spanish Peaks is national forest land, with a designated wilderness where motors and bikes are not allowed, so the rules change as you move up the mountain.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Grand County
Byers Peak Wilderness rises right above the Fraser Valley
Byers Peak Wilderness sits in the Arapaho National Forest above Fraser, and reaching its high trails takes a long forest-road approach.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Gilpin County
James Peak Wilderness: a wild corner of Gilpin County with strict rules
The James Peak Wilderness reaches into western Gilpin County, and as designated wilderness it bans campfires, bikes, and motors, with leashed pets and small group sizes.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Delta County
Gunnison Gorge's Gold Medal trout water is reached by 4WD roads and a hike down
The Gunnison Gorge Wilderness holds Gold Medal trout water, but its trailheads sit off primitive roads that turn impassable when wet, and you hike steeply down into the canyon.
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 - Montrose County
Montrose's high country is the Uncompahgre National Forest
The mountains above Montrose are part of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, managed locally by the Ouray Ranger District based in Montrose.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Pueblo County
Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness rises in Pueblo County's Wet Mountains
Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness sits in the Wet Mountains southwest of Pueblo in the San Carlos Ranger District, a quiet, trail-limited wilderness with strict wilderness rules.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Jackson County
The Never Summer Wilderness rises on the east edge of North Park
The Never Summer Wilderness shares a boundary with Rocky Mountain National Park, and reaching its Jackson County trailheads means rough roads, seasonal closures, and wilderness rules.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Chaffee County
Buffalo Peaks Wilderness closes some roads for elk calving
The Buffalo Peaks Wilderness in the northeast corner of the Chaffee County area is open to hikers year-round, but several access roads close in spring for elk calving.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Gunnison County
The West Elk Wilderness is remote and closed to bikes and motors
The West Elk Wilderness in the Gunnison National Forest is a large, lightly visited area where, as in all wilderness, bikes and motorized vehicles are not allowed.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Park County
Buffalo Peaks Wilderness, near Fairplay, is quiet meadow country with bighorn sheep
On the southwest edge of the Mosquito Range, the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness offers walkable meadow-and-forest backcountry close to Fairplay and Hartsel, with one of Colorado's largest bighorn sheep herds and strict wilderness rules.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - Park County
Lost Creek Wilderness, near Tarryall, is granite-dome country with wilderness rules
The Lost Creek Wilderness in eastern Park County is known for rounded granite domes and arches reached from Tarryall Road, and as designated wilderness it has stricter rules than ordinary forest.
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