A federal judge has ordered a guest ranch to remove a locked gate on Garfield County Road 200 outside De Beque after agreeing with the county that it is a public road, a decision that improves public access to tens of thousands of acres of federal land. Judge R. Brooke Jackson with the U.S. District Court of Colorado has sided with Garfield County in its effort to get the High Lonesome Ranch to unlock the gate on the road, also called North Dry Fork Road, about 20 miles northwest of De Beque. He ruled that road, and Middle Dry Fork Road, also accessed beyond the locked gate, are public roads.