featured photo courtesy of Trails Offroad
The Royal Gorge BLM office in Colorado is starting the travel management process for the Thirtyone Mile Mountain planning area with route inventory. This project area covers 34,500 acres of public lands in northern Fremont and southern Park Counties. The BLM has currently identified 62 miles of routes. We need the public to look through the routes and submit comments on why those 62 miles are important and what they are used for. Motorized users also need to identify if any routes are missing. If routes are not in this inventory then the BLM could leave them off the travel plan for good, considering them closed. Comments are accepted until August 15, 2024. Take a look at the routes they are considering and give feedback by filling out the form below. It’s important to note that route inventory was completed in 2020. Recreation has definitely grown in popularity and routes may be used for dispersed camping and other forms of use now that they weren’t in 2020 and prior. The BLM is accepting public comments on the locations of additional routes, whether they already existed, or if there is a need for new routes. We should also do our best to document nature of use for these routes and the condition they are in. This gives the public opportunity to give suggestions on new routes for specific uses.
