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Profiles of Pike and San Isabel National Forests Roadless Areas PROFILES OF PIKE AND SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FORESTS ROADLESS AREAS Prepared by the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region July 23, 2008 INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PIKE AND SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FORESTS .......................................................................................................5 Aspen Ridge #37 (11,900 acres) ................................................................................................................................5 Badger Creek #38 (14,400 acres)...............................................................................................................................6 Boreas #40 (9,800 acres)............................................................................................................................................6 Buffalo Peaks East #35 (5,200 acres) ........................................................................................................................7 Buffalo Peaks South #36 (7,600 acres)......................................................................................................................8 Buffalo Peaks West #34 (8,000 acres)........................................................................................................................9 Burning Bear #48 (19,100 acres) .............................................................................................................................10 Chipeta #23 (28,700 acres) ......................................................................................................................................10 Cuchara North # 13 (8,200 acres) ............................................................................................................................11 Cuchara South # 12 (7,500 acres) ............................................................................................................................12 Elk Mountain-Collegiate North #28 (32,900 acres).................................................................................................13 Elk Mountain-Collegiate South #27 (6,600 acres)...................................................................................................14 Elk Mountain-Collegiate West #29 (5,800 acres) ....................................................................................................14 Farnum #42 (11,100 acres).......................................................................................................................................15 Green Mountain #53 (11,000 acres).........................................................................................................................16 Greenhorn Mountain: Badito Cone to Dry Creek # 8 (1,800 acres) ........................................................................16 Greenhorn Mountain: Cisneros Creek to Upper Turkey Creek #9 (2,400 acres).....................................................17 Greenhorn Mountain: Graneros Creek to Section 10 #7 (4,800 acres)....................................................................18 Greenhorn Mountain: Little Saint Charles Creek to Greenhorn Creek # 6 (5,300 acres)........................................18 Gunbarrel #54 (8,400 acres).....................................................................................................................................19 Hardscrabble #3 (7,400 acres) .................................................................................................................................20 Highline #2 (12,400 acres).......................................................................................................................................21 Holy Cross #32 (6,000 acres)...................................................................................................................................22 Jefferson #41 (10,700 acres) ....................................................................................................................................22 Kreutzer-Princeton #26 (40,900 acres) ....................................................................................................................23 Lost Creek East #47 (14,200 acres) .........................................................................................................................24 Lost Creek South #45 (5,900 acres).........................................................................................................................25 Lost Creek West #46 (12,300 acres) ........................................................................................................................25 Methodist Mountain #20 (7,000 acres) ....................................................................................................................26 Mount Antero #24 (38,700 acres) ............................................................................................................................27 Mount Elbert #30 (23,800 acres) .............................................................................................................................28 Mount Evans #50 (15,400 acres) .............................................................................................................................29 Mount Massive #31 (1,400 acres)............................................................................................................................29 Pikes Peak East #58 (13,300 acres) .........................................................................................................................30 Pikes Peak West #57 (14,100 acres).........................................................................................................................31 Porphyry Peak #21 (3,900 acres) .............................................................................................................................32 Puma Hills #43 (8,500 acres)...................................................................................................................................33 Purgatoire #11 (16,000 acres) ..................................................................................................................................33 Rampart East #56 (23,600 acres) .............................................................................................................................34 Rampart West #55 (24,200 acres) ............................................................................................................................35 Romley #25 (7,700 acres) ........................................................................................................................................36 Saint Charles Peak #5 (11,100 acres).......................................................................................................................37 Sangre de Cristo: Alvarado Campground to Music Pass #16 (7,400 acres) ............................................................38 Sangre de Cristo: Blanca Peak to Slide Mountain #14 (3,900 acres) ......................................................................38 Sangre de Cristo: Lake Creek to Hermit Creek #17 (11,000 acres).........................................................................40 Sangre de Cristo: Medano Pass to Carbonate Mountain #15 (7,600 acres).............................................................41 Sangre de Cristo: Silverheels Gulch to Hunts Creek #19 (6,000 acres) ..................................................................42 Sangre de Cristo: West Creek to Big Cottonwood # 18 (7,400 acres).....................................................................42 Scraggy Peaks #4 (15,500 acres) .............................................................................................................................43 Sheep Rock #52 (7,100 acres)..................................................................................................................................44 Silverheels #39 (7,500 acres) ...................................................................................................................................45 2 3 Spanish Peaks #10 (6,300 acres)..............................................................................................................................45 Square Top Mountain #49 (6,300 acres) ..................................................................................................................46 Starvation Creek #22 (7,600 acres)..........................................................................................................................47 Tanner Peak #1 (17,600 acres).................................................................................................................................48 Thirtynine Mile Mountain #44 (10,900 acres).........................................................................................................49 Thunder Butte #51 (7,400 acres)..............................................................................................................................49 Weston Peak #33 (15,300 acres) ..............................................................................................................................50 4 5 PIKE AND SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FORESTS Aspen Ridge #37 (11,900 acres) 1. Description This Colorado Roadless Area (CRA), is approximately 8 miles north of the town of Salida in Chaffee and Park Counties on the east side of the Arkansas River, above Brown’s Canyon. It is administered
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