A travel management plan that forest officials implemented in 2012 closed the area to winter motorized use, putting an end to legal use of motorized over-snow travel.
Clear Creek is closed within Golden city limits for swimming and tubing as of this week amid high runoff levels and creek flows, as are several other creeks in the Front Range foothills.
The intense heat bearing down on Colorado is not only making for oppressive temperatures but causing the snowpack to melt faster than some streams and rivers can handle.