NFS Rd 500 in CO -- Camping Rules & Access

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NFS Rd 500 in CO

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

31 mi from Steamboat Springs

Maps 8,780 ft

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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

Difficult
  • Road difficulty 4 of 5: a difficult drive in.
  • Near Big Red Park.
  • Recorded as maintained for high-clearance vehicles, dirt, pitching to 22%, 100% of it on a shelf.
  • Estimated climb: 750 ft, with sustained grades near 20% and pitches to 25%.

Setting

Secluded
  • Secluded here, with the nearest through road 2.5 miles off.
  • Silver City Creek runs 1.1 mi off.
  • Dome Peak stands 1,754 ft above the map pin, 4.6 miles southeast.

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 28–50°F, 3.2″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

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