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Aspen-area counties that pay for Forest Service backcountry rangers consider the partnerships essential to managing federal public lands in their backyards.
Capitol, Snowmass and the Maroon Bells. You know these mountains, iconic representatives of the mighty Elk Range. This is the backdrop which you have chosen to live your lives, whether you are a skier, hiker,…
The U.S. Forest Service will fix a washed out section of the Lead King Loop on Monday. The agency anticipates the road will be open on Tuesday.
A sign at Beaver Lake near Marble warns OHV users that if they aren't respectful they could lose access to the road leading to the Lead King Loop. (Curtis Wackerle/Aspen Journalism) Gunnison County commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution authorizing the continued use of both all-terrain and off-highway vehicles on a segment of road approaching Lead King Loop, while reaffirming the importance of a multilateral process building toward a permit or reservation system that would limit motorized recreation in the backcountry near the town of Marble. While the commissioners did not enact a de f...
Some hope language ‘deficiency’ from 2015 resolution would be game changer The discovery of what’s being described as a language error in a 2015 Gunnison County resolution allowing off-highway vehicles on a portion of a county road approaching the Lead King Loop was seen as an opportunity by some Marble residents to immediately block the use of the machines that have been accessing the public lands in the area in greater numbers. But despite what some of those residents were hoping would be a game-changer in the debate over what to do about the increasing presence of all-terrain vehicle...