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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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Parkfield Wetland is a prairie pond with a city job
Parkfield Wetland in northeast Denver is a 2003-built prairie pond that doubles as regional storm detention and open-space habitat.
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Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County its big shortgrass horizon
Northeast of Greeley, Pawnee National Grassland gives Weld County a vast federally managed shortgrass prairie horizon.
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Pine Valley Ranch ties Pine Lake to the North Fork country
Pine Valley Ranch Park gathers Pine Lake, forest trails, and picnic grounds where Jeffco opens toward the North Fork of the South Platte.
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Prewitt and Jumbo are wildlife areas, not parks — access works differently
Logan County's State Wildlife Areas like Prewitt and Jumbo reservoirs are managed for hunting and fishing, so visitors 16 and older generally need a hunting or fishing license or a Colorado SWA Pass.
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Reynolds Park is a forest gateway near Foxton
Reynolds Park near Foxton shows the wooded, tucked-away side of Jefferson County, far from the Golden and Red Rocks foothills crowds.
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Rotella Park gives Welby a lake-and-trail park
Welby's Rotella Park pairs a seven-acre lake and trails with links into the Niver Creek and South Platte systems.
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Telluride's ski mountain rises straight out of the box canyon
Telluride Ski Resort climbs from the old mining town into high-alpine hike-to terrain, with a free gondola linking town to the slopes at Mountain Village.
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The Cache la Poudre is a federally designated Wild and Scenic River
The Cache la Poudre River, which runs out of the mountains through Larimer County and Fort Collins, carries a national Wild and Scenic River designation that shapes how the canyon is managed.
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The Dolores River Canyon is public land with its own rules
Below McPhee Dam the Dolores River cuts a deep canyon on BLM-managed public land that includes a wilderness study area, and how you can use it is set by the agency, not by general access.
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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 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 New Santa Fe Regional Trail follows an old rail grade
The 14-mile New Santa Fe Regional Trail rides an old Santa Fe Railroad grade from Palmer Lake through the Air Force Academy.
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Van Bibber Park follows creek meadows between Arvada and Golden
On the Arvada-Golden edge, Van Bibber Park follows its creek through meadows and wetlands, with an accessible trail and easy walking.
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Welchester Tree Grant preserves an old grove in the city edge
A historic tree grove survives as a small open-space park near the Lakewood-Golden edge, proof public land comes in many sizes.
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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.
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White Ranch keeps a ranch-country edge above Golden
Above Golden, White Ranch Park keeps a working-land foothills landscape of grassland, forest, and long views, with many trails.
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A 1990 tornado reshaped downtown Limon, and the rebuild still shows
In 1990 a powerful tornado struck Limon and heavily damaged its business district, and the town's rebuilt downtown reflects that recovery.
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A foot trail loops the whole town of Ouray
The Ouray Perimeter Trail is a roughly 6-mile loop that rings the town on foot, passing Cascade Falls, the Ice Park, Box Cañon, and a string of bridges and waterfalls.
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Adams County puts public art directly onto its trails
Adams County builds public art into its trails — murals and wood carvings along the Clear Creek and South Platte River paths.
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Adams County's open-space tax helps explain its park map
A voter-approved sales tax, first passed in 1999, funds the parks, trails, farmland, and wildlife areas behind Adams County's open-space map.
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Ancient bristlecone pines grow at Mount Goliath
The Mount Goliath Natural Area on the Mount Blue Sky road protects a grove of old bristlecone pines near treeline, with a short loop trail and a nature center.
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Arapahoe County Fairgrounds Park is also a trail and play space
Arapahoe County Fairgrounds Park holds natural-surface trails, a nature play area, a creek, fields, and a picnic pavilion beside the event center.
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Aurora Reservoir trades pavement for a swim beach and a dive flag
Aurora Reservoir is a City of Aurora lake on the metro's east edge with a lifeguarded summer swim beach, its own SCUBA dive area, an 8-mile loop trail, an archery range, and fishing that has produced four Colorado state records.
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Bergen Park is a small mountain park with an old stone shelter
Bergen Park is a 25-acre Denver mountain park of grassland and ponderosa pine, centered on a sturdy stone picnic shelter built in 1917.
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