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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
James Peak: the thirteener on Gilpin County's western skyline
James Peak rises above 13,000 feet on the Continental Divide at the western edge of Gilpin County and gives its name to the James Peak Wilderness.
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Jeffco's open space parks come with their own rules
Jefferson County runs a large county-owned parks and open space system, with rules and seasonal closures that differ from state or national lands nearby.
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John Martin Reservoir is a plains lake with its own rules
John Martin Reservoir, on the Arkansas River east of Otero County, is a state park and a federal reservoir where fishing and access follow posted park and agency rules.
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John Martin Reservoir is a state park and a flood-control dam at the same time
John Martin Reservoir in Bent County is a federal flood-control and irrigation reservoir on the Arkansas River that is also a Colorado state park for fishing, boating, and birding.
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Jumbo Reservoir near Julesburg is a State Wildlife Area, not a park
The plains reservoir west of Julesburg, near Crook, is managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife as a State Wildlife Area, which carries its own access and pass rules.
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Jumping Cow is a state wildlife area, not a county park
Jumping Cow State Wildlife Area in Elbert County is a limited-access property managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, with access rules very different from a public park.
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Karval hosts a spring festival built around the mountain plover
The tiny community of Karval holds an annual springtime Mountain Plover Festival that draws birders to one of the bird's important prairie nesting areas.
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Kemp-Breeze and Hot Sulphur Springs are wildlife areas, not parks
Grand County's State Wildlife Areas along the Colorado River give fishing access, but they require a license or SWA pass and follow their own rules.
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Kendall Mountain: Silverton's own little ski hill
Silverton owns and runs Kendall Mountain, a family-priced recreation area with skiing, Nordic trails, and an ice rink right beside town.
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La Garita Wilderness and the Wheeler Geologic Area are hard to reach on purpose
The La Garita Wilderness in the Rio Grande National Forest holds the volcanic spires of the Wheeler Geologic Area, which you reach only by a long hike or a rough four-wheel-drive road.
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Lake County's fourteeners sit on national forest land with its own rules
Mount Elbert, Mount Massive, and the high country around Leadville are managed by the Forest Service through the Leadville Ranger District.
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Lamar throws a four-day festival for the snow geese each February
Every February, Lamar hosts the High Plains Snow Goose Festival, a four-day birding event with guided field trips, expert talks, a photo contest, and a craft fair built around the winter migration.
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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.
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Lizard Head Wilderness holds the high headwaters of the Dolores
Northeast of Dolores, the Lizard Head Wilderness rises into the high San Juans and includes the West Dolores headwaters, with foot-and-horse-only travel reached from trailheads like Navajo Lake.
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Lory State Park hides a bike park behind Horsetooth
Lory State Park, on the far side of Horsetooth Reservoir near Fort Collins, packs the Arthur's Rock climb, miles of mountain-bike trails, and a dedicated bike park into one Larimer County state park, with its own CPW pass.
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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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Low water can close boat ramps at Nee Noshe, so check before you launch
Water levels at Nee Noshe Reservoir in Kiowa County rise and fall enough that some boat ramps can be unusable, so boaters should confirm ramp conditions with Colorado Parks and Wildlife first.
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Mancos State Park is a small, wakeless lake in the ponderosa pines
Just north of Mancos, Mancos State Park surrounds Jackson Gulch Reservoir, a wakeless lake for paddling and quiet boating with year-round trout fishing and forest campsites.
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Manitou Lake: fishing yes, swimming no
Manitou Lake north of Woodland Park is a small Pike National Forest reservoir popular for family fishing, but body contact with the water is not allowed and a Colorado fishing license is required.
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McCullough Gulch trailhead also uses summer parking limits
McCullough Gulch, a waterfall-and-alpine-lake hike on the north side of Quandary Peak, falls under the same summer parking reservations and shuttle system as Quandary.
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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.
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Mesa Verde is rich with wildlife, and a little distance lets you enjoy it best
Mesa Verde National Park is alive with deer, coyotes, around 200 bird species, and reptiles, and giving wild animals space is the simple way to enjoy them well.
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Mill Creek Campground is a developed base on the Lake Fork
The BLM's Mill Creek Campground sits along the Lake Fork of the Gunnison southwest of Lake City, with a short season, bear-aware storage, and access to the high peaks and byway.
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Moffat County draws hunters, but the rules change by unit
Northwest Colorado is well known for elk and other big game, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife sets the seasons, units, and license rules that change from year to year.
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