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Castle Peak Travel Management Area

HIGHLIGHTS
A variety of recreational opportunities include sightseeing, camping, horseback riding, hunting, hiking, four wheeling, motorcycle and all terrain vehicle riding, and mountain biking.  The area is semi-primitive backcountry with no visitor facilities.  The  landscape is mountainous and diverse, with open sagebrush parks, pinyon-juniper wooded hills, and high country with mountain meadows spruce-fir and aspen forest.

ACCESS
(see also Castle Peak WSA and Bull Gulch WSA)
Colorado River Road - 1-70 Dotsero exit north to Hwy 131
Milk Creek Road - 1-70 Wolcott exit, go north on Hwy 131 and turn left in 3 miles on Milk Creek Road, stay right at the "Y" onto BLM road 8500
See Castle Peak Area Visitor Guide and Travel Map for additional access routes

Recreation

DISTANCE/ELEVATION
The area covers approximately 119,631 acres and provides over 400 miles of routes for motorized travel including BLM, County, State and Federal roads and highways and 32 miles on non-motorized travel.  Elevation ranges from 6,200 feet along the Colorado River to 11,275 at the top of Castle Peak.

MAPS
BLM 1: 100,000 topographic: Vail
USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangles:  Blue Hill, McCoy, Burns South, Castle Peak, State Bridge, Dotsero, Gypsum, Eagle, Wolcott
Castle Peak Visitor Guide and Travel Map 


   
Last updated: 10-25-2007