ESTES PARK, Colo. (AP) ” With 14,259-foot Longs Peak as a backdrop, members of Colorado’s congressional delegation said Monday they will introduce legislation designating nearly all of Rocky Mountain ...

Rocky Mountain District Ranger Mike Munoz said that acreages in each of the areas, and which wilderness area, (the Bob or the Scapegoat) will have to be sorted out and approved by the U.S ...

The small community of Lake City in Hinsdale County is Colorado's most remote town. It's full of natural beauty and on the ...

7 wilderness areas to explore. Rawah, Neota, ... The Never Summer Wilderness shares its eastern boundary with Rocky Mountain National Park and receives large amounts of snow, ...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colorado ” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined Colorado lawmakers, business and conservation leaders Thursday to celebrate the designation of Rocky Mountain National ...

On a clear day in Rocky Mountain National Park, that's about 200 miles. Skip to content. All ... federal records show impaired visibility at 156 national parks and wilderness areas nationwide ...

The wilderness area has about 25 miles of trails. The main travel route is the along the Welcome Creek Trail, a brushy, rocky trail about seven miles long that crosses the area southeast to northwest.

The 16,000-acre strip of Dearborn River canyon at the southern edge of the Rocky Mountain Front makes an awesome postcard. Waterfalls and moose tracks line the trail to the Continental Divide. So ...

Idaho Public Television's Rocky Barker reports. ... But Congressman Simpson decided to make another run at declaring the mountains a wilderness area and got his bill through the House in July.

Three badly decomposed bodies have been found in and around a tent in the rugged Colorado wilderness.. A hiker came across a tent with a body outside of it in the Rocky Mountains of central ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ” Congressional Republicans and Democrats from Colorado have reached a compromise on a proposal to create protected wilderness areas throughout much of Rocky Mountain National Park. No ...