About the Area

The Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland is located in north central Colorado. The forests and grassland encompasses 1.5 million acres and extends north to the Wyoming border, south of Interstate 70 to Mount Blue Sky, west across the Continental Divide to the Williams Fork area and includes short grass prairie east of I-25. Headquarters are located in  Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Forests and Grassland is divided into five ranger districts: Boulder, Canyon Lakes, Clear Creek, Sulphur, and Pawnee.

Recreational opportunities are available on the plains of the Pawnee National Grassland east of Interstate 25 in Weld County to the northern Front Range in Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek and Jefferson counties to the other side of the Continental Divide in Grand County.