Usf Rd 498 in CO -- Camping Rules & Access

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Usf Rd 498 in CO

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

31 mi from Steamboat Springs

Maps 8,952 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.
  • Near Big Red Park.
  • By its Census road type this is maintained for passenger cars, but the condition is unverified.
  • Recorded as pitching to 22%, 100% of it on a shelf.
  • Estimated climb: 290 ft, with sustained grades near 18% and pitches to 24%.
  • Terrain estimates suggest little level ground beside this road.

Setting

Secluded
  • Secluded here, with the nearest through road 2.5 miles off.
  • Silver City Creek runs 1.1 mi off.
  • Black Mountain stands 1,821 ft above the map pin, 5.0 miles east.

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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