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Outdoors and wildfire
Hunting and fishing rules, trails, rivers, camping, winter sports, dark skies, and wildfire risk and defensible space — the public-land side of Colorado life.
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Outdoors and wildfire - June 10, 2026
The Georgetown bighorn herd is easy to watch from the highway
A well-known herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep lives on the slopes between Georgetown and Silver Plume, but the Georgetown State Wildlife Area that protects them has seasonal access limits.
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The Gore Range and Wheeler trails are Summit County's long ridge walks
The Gore Range Trail and the Wheeler National Recreation Trail are long, high routes near Copper Mountain that connect to the Eagles Nest Wilderness and the Continental Divide Trail.
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The Grand Mesa above Cedaredge holds hundreds of small fishing lakes
The Grand Mesa rises north of Cedaredge in Delta County and is dotted with hundreds of small stream-fed lakes stocked with trout, reached by forest roads off Highway 65.
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The Grand Mesa holds hundreds of lakes for fishing and camping
The forested top of the Grand Mesa is dotted with lakes and reservoirs with national-forest campgrounds, where Colorado Parks and Wildlife sets the fishing rules and the Forest Service runs the campsites.
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The Grand Mesa is its own avalanche forecast zone in winter
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center forecasts the Grand Mesa as its own backcountry zone, so winter snowmobilers and skiers should check it before heading up.
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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.
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The Gunnison sage-grouse shapes life across the Gunnison Basin
The Gunnison sage-grouse is a federally listed bird whose sagebrush habitat covers much of the Gunnison Basin, and its protection touches land use and recreation here.
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The High Line Canal Trail is a 71-mile cottonwood corridor for walking and riding
Beyond its old irrigation role, the High Line Canal is a long, tree-lined recreation trail that threads Arapahoe County and stitches the south metro together for walkers, riders, and cyclists.
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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.
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The Leadville fish hatchery is a trailhead for hikes and wildlife watching
The grounds of the Leadville National Fish Hatchery double as a trailhead, with named trails climbing toward the Mount Massive Wilderness and good odds of seeing elk, deer, and birds.
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The Leadville National Fish Hatchery is a working piece of 1800s history
The Leadville National Fish Hatchery, established in 1889, is one of the country's oldest federal fish hatcheries and is open to visitors near Leadville.
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The Lizard Head Wilderness holds three fourteeners and bans motors and bikes
The Lizard Head Wilderness southwest of Telluride contains the Mount Wilson, Wilson Peak, and El Diente fourteeners and the Lizard Head spire, and it is closed to bikes and motor vehicles.
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The Maroon Bells are beautiful to photograph and dangerous to climb
Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak are two fourteeners above the famous lake view, and the Forest Service warns that climbing them is hazardous because of the loose, crumbly rock.
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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.
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The North Fruita Desert (18 Road) is a BLM mountain-bike area with a real campground
North of Fruita, the BLM's 18 Road trail system draws mountain bikers, and its campground is a designated, fee site rather than free camp-anywhere land.
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The Pawnee Bird Tour is a self-guided drive across the grassland
The Pawnee Bird Tour is a marked self-guided driving route on grassland county roads in Weld County, built around the area's well-known birdlife.
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The Pawnee Buttes Trail has a spring closure for nesting raptors
The Pawnee Buttes Trail in northeast Weld County is open year-round, but parts near the bluffs close each spring to protect nesting hawks, eagles, and falcons.
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The Plains Conservation Center protects real shortgrass prairie in east Aurora
On Aurora's eastern edge, the Plains Conservation Center preserves shortgrass prairie where you can see pronghorn, prairie dogs, and raptors, and it is tied to the West Bijou geology site to the east.
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The Poudre is a National Heritage Area you can raft through
The Cache la Poudre corridor above Fort Collins is a 45-mile national heritage area honoring Western water law, and summer snowmelt turns the same canyon into the Front Range's go-to whitewater run.
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The Powderhorn Wilderness protects a vast stretch of flat alpine tundra
Northeast of Lake City, the Powderhorn Wilderness spreads across the Cannibal and Calf Creek plateaus, holding one of the largest stretches of gentle alpine tundra in the Lower 48.
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The Rainbow Trail runs along the range just below the wilderness
The long Rainbow Trail traces the base of the Sangre de Cristo Range past Westcliffe, open to hikers, horses, bikes, and motorcycles but not full-size off-road vehicles.
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The Red Shin Trail loops the quiet side of John Martin Reservoir
The Red Shin Trail at John Martin Reservoir State Park is a named loop below the dam and around Lake Hasty that ties together prairie, wetland, and a Santa Fe Trail marker.
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The Rio Grande cutthroat, the valley's native trout
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout is the San Luis Valley's own native trout, and a decades-long recovery effort has kept this homegrown fish swimming in the high streams it has always called home.
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The Rio Grande State Wildlife Area near Monte Vista: a quiet, birdy river stretch with a season and a pass
The Rio Grande State Wildlife Area near Monte Vista is a peaceful riverside spot for birds and wildlife. It is open part of the year and needs a license or SWA pass, both easy to plan for once you know.
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