Current Conditions at Rampart

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Reports from RampartConditions

May 9, 2013Trails and road are new OPEN for the season!
The Forest Service announced today that they are in the process of opening the gates and the trails are open for use. As always, use caution to watch for...
Mar 29, 2013Trails are temporarily CLOSED for wet conditions
Effective March 29, 2013, the Forest Service has issued a CLOSURE of the Rampart Range trail system. This is done to prevent excessive resource damage due to...
Dec 16, 2012Rampart Range Road is CLOSED for the season
Rampart Range Road is now closed for the season at Highway 67. Only the first parking lot is accessible. The trails remain open as long as conditions permit....
Sep 11, 2012Fire on trail 787
I was out at Rampart with my daughter doing some trail riding on my ATV. Came across a decent sized fire about 1/4 of an acre in size about a 30 minute...
Jun 21, 2012Stage 2 Fire Bans in effect
FYI: Douglas County, including Pike National Forest has issued Stage 2 fire restrictions. Stage 2 means no burning of any kind other than gas stoves or grills....
May 3, 2012Rampart Range Road is now OPEN for the season
The road is now open as of May 1st. Keep an eye out for trail debris from the thinning operations and down trees from the winter....
Apr 2, 2012Rampart Range Road will remain closed a little longer
We received informal word this weekend that Rampart Range Road will remain closed until "around mid April probably". Apparently there is still enough snow in a...
Dec 2, 2011Rampart Range Road is now CLOSED for the season
As of December 1st, Rampart Range Road is now closed for the season. Trails remain open, although conditions may make the trails impassable at times....
Apr 30, 2011Rampart Range Road and Trails are OPEN for the season
The gates were opened April 29th and the road is now open for the season. Some of the trails may have been impacted by the thinning work that went on over the...
Dec 4, 2010Trail Conditions 12.02.10
Headed up and hit the trails, most of the main trails had an inch or two of snow and in some spots 3 or 4 inches. However, the trails were still rideable and...
Nov 26, 2010Limited temporary closures for forest thinning
Note that some of the trails at the northern end of the trails system (near Highway 67 and Rampart Range Road) will be closed throughout the winter for forest...
May 20, 2010Road and trails are OPEN
As of today, Rampart Range Road and the trails are OPEN. Douglas County just finished grading Rampart Range Road so it should be in reasonable shape for a...
May 7, 2010Closure extended until May 14th
The Forest Service is still reporting significant snow on some trails and working to clear the down trees. There are also some down power lines which must be...
May 6, 2010Trails and road remain CLOSED until at least May 7th
The Forest Service has extended the closure until at least May 7th to prevent resource damage with the melting snow, and to give the trails crew more time for...
Mar 31, 2010Road and TRAILS are CLOSED until May 1st, 2010
We just received word from the USFS that Rampart Range Road will not open on April 1st as scheduled and instead will remain closed until May 1st, 2010. In...

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If you've visited Rampart recently and would like to make a report on current conditions, put your information in an email to conditions@rampartrange.org. Useful information will show up here once it has been approved by the moderators. It may take a while, especially on weekends, so be patient. We will also pass along relevant information about trail maintenance issues to the Forest Service or our own work parties as appropriate.

Note that messages are subject to approval and we reserve the right to edit or reject them before posting if they do not meet our standards. Please keep messages concise. Subject lines should be less than 68 characters if possible. Some examples of good message headers include "There is a tree down on trail xxx that is causing riders to detour." or "Trail xxx is starting to develop serious rutting near blaa blaa." or "Thinning crews have trail xxx closed today." or "It rained like crazy last night and conditions are awesome." You may expand on the information in the message body, however only the first 73 characters will be shown on this page. Readers will be able to click on the link to read the rest of your message.

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