Co Rd 27 in CO -- Camping Rules & Access

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Co Rd 27 in CO

Road corridorMedicine Bow-Routt NF, Hahns Peak-Bears Ears Ranger District

18 mi from Craig

Maps 8,528 ft

Camping permission not confirmed

A stay limit is confirmed. It does not establish permission to camp here.

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests ↗

Stay limit: 14 days · within 30 days
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Road Access

Rough
  • Road difficulty 3 of 5: a rough drive in.
  • Recorded as maintained for passenger cars, gravel, pitching to 30%, 100% of it on a shelf.
  • Estimated climb: 2,000 ft through 5 switchbacks, with sustained grades near 18% and pitches to 37%.

Known camping along this road between mile 0 and mile 0.7: .

Setting

Limited privacy
  • Limited separation from through roads or other sites here, with the nearest through road 0.1 miles off.
  • Black Mountain stands 2,325 ft above the map pin, 3.7 miles north.
  • Falls Creek runs 1.1 mi off.

Rules

  • Dispersed camping is available throughout the Medicine Bow-Routt Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland.…Dispersed camping is limited to 16 days in the Medicine Bow Forest and Thunder Basin National Grassland and 14 days in the Routt Forest in a 30 day period.
  • Current fire orders

Climate averages

October normals 31–53°F, 2.7″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.