A view in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness area in the White River National Forest of Colorado. A 19 acre parcel of land in the Green Mountain area south of US Hwy 82 is now ensured to the public ...

Thanks to its stockpile of eight of Colorado’s 54 fourteeners, the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness lures folks who want to walk in the clouds—and trek through the valleys. “It’s a big roller coaster,” ...

The 5.6-mile route (one way) from the South Winfield trailhead (high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicles can park two miles farther up the track at the Clear Creek trailhead) follows Clear Creek into ...

The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness is comprised of 168,000 acres in the Sawatch Range west of Buena Vista. With the highest average elevation of any wilderness in the United States, the Collegiate ...

Mount Bierstadt, part of the Mount Evans Wilderness Area ... Lost Creek, Holy Cross, Collegiate Peaks and Maroon Bells-Snowmass. Rangers tell of eroding and damaged hiking trails, denuded ...

With the help of Forest Service wilderness experts, the committee has narrowed its ... that are showing wear include the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness and Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, outside Aspen ...

BUENA VISTA, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced on Tuesday that a team reintroduced boreal toad tadpoles in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in Chaffee County. The team was led by Alex ...

About 82 percent of those visits are on national forest lands, such as the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness and the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness which surround Aspen.

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DENVER (KDVR) — There’s an additional 19.3 acres in Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks Wilderness available to public access after the White River National Forest acquired the Panama/Principal ...