Parking Wednesday near the Dry Lake Campground area on Buffalo Pass is pictured. (Photo by Bryce Martin)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Since last spring, Colorado has seen dramatic increases in outdoor recreation. The trend has positively impacted the state with an increase in sales tax at outdoor and sporting good retailers, but there are negatives as well with public lands seeing more abuse with fewer staffers to maintain facilities and trails.
This winter is showing more of the same as trailheads are full of Subarus and SUVs carrying skiers, snowshoers and snowmobilers in search of backcountry access.
The Steamboat Springs Chamber, the National Forest and other members of the Routt Recreation Roundtable’s Destination Management Discussion group, are providing tools and resources to those looking to use popular winter recreation areas in Routt County. The Chamber is hosting all the information and tools at steamboatchamber.com/know-before-you-go
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Snow fell here Monday, at last. Good, we need it. Weâve been parched, withered, absolutely drought-saturated. At this point, we would ve even settled for a nice dusting of graupel, anything for some moisture.
But â and I feel sheepishly guilty even mentioning this â one upside of the dry November and December in Flagstaff was that the trails higher on the mountain had mostly been easy to traverse, sans snowshoes or even Kahtoola spikes.
So it was that, on Christmas Eve morning, I had the unusual pleasure of running one of my favorite short loops one last time before (presumably) the onset of winter makes navigating the path (and the forest road leading to it) inaccessible until spring.