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A visual comparison of the cliff side above the No Name Drainage during the Grizzly Creek Fire and today.
Tinderbox-dry conditions during one of the driest summers on record resulted in the biggest wildfire to ever burn in the White River National Forest that surrounds Glenwood Springs, eventually consuming 32,631 acres.
The Grizzly Creek Fire sparked in the median along Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon just west of the Grizzly Creek rest/recreation area around 1:30 p.m. Aug. 10. It quickly spread beneath the elevated westbound lanes and up the north canyon wall.
Fire investigators later ruled the fire was human-caused from passing interstate traffic, but an exact ignition source was never determined.