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