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Routt National Forest lands (1,125,438 acres) are located in northwestern Colorado. The Steamboat Ski Resort is located in the forest, on Mount Werner. The forest is named after John Routt, the first Governor of Colorado. It was established in 1905 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The forest encompasses 1,126,346 acres (4,558.16 km 2).
The Platte River Wilderness is primarily located in south central Wyoming, with a small section extending into Colorado in the United States.Located entirely within Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest, the wilderness was created in 1984 to protect the forestlands adjacent to the North Platte River.
The Roosevelt National Forest is divided into two ranger districts, the Canyon Lakes Ranger District, with offices in Fort Collins, and the Boulder Ranger District, with offices in Boulder. The Roosevelt National Forest began on May 22, 1902 as part of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve. It was renamed the Colorado National Forest in 1910, and was ...
The Mount Zirkel Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Routt National Forest in northwest Colorado.The closest city is Steamboat Springs, Colorado.The wilderness is named after Mount Zirkel, the highest peak in the range at 12,182 feet (3,713 m), which itself is named after German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel.
Flat Top Wilderness location is in red. Flat Tops Wilderness Area is the second largest U.S. Wilderness Area in Colorado.It is 235,214 acres (951.88 km 2), with 38,870 acres (157.3 km 2) in Routt National Forest and 196,344 acres (794.58 km 2) in White River National Forest.
The Park Range, elevation approximately 3,712 metres (12,178 ft), [1] is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwestern Colorado in the United States. [1] The range forms a relatively isolated part of the Continental Divide, extending north-to-south for approximately 170 kilometres (110 mi) [1] along the boundary between Jackson (east) and Routt counties.
The west side of the peak is in the Never Summer Wilderness, on land managed by Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's west slope drains into tributaries of the Michigan River and the east slope drains into headwaters of the Colorado River except a portion which is diverted by the Grand Ditch .
Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest; B. Black Mountain (Moffat County, Colorado) C. Cache la Poudre-North Park Scenic Byway; Mount Cirrus; Clark Peak (Medicine Bow ...