Outdoor Life in the 

 P a g e F i V e C o I o r a d o N a t i o n a I F o r e s t 



Camping and Fishing Grounds 



Numberless attractive camping sites may be found along the 

 different streams and about the shores of the mountain lakes of the 

 Colorado Forest. 



Since the advent of the automobile the number of campers has 

 rapidly increased, and in order that camp and picnic grounds may 

 prove inviting and attractive it is necessary to keep them clean. 

 Tin cans and camp refuse should be buried, and discarded clothing, 

 papers, and other inflammable material should be burned. A Httle 

 care in this regard will add much to the pleasure of other \asitors. 



Automobile roads reach the North Platte and Laramie Rivers; 

 the canyons of the Cache La Poudre River, Buckhorn, Big Thompson, 

 St. Vrain, Lefthand, and Boulder Creeks; the shores of Chambers 

 Lake at the head of the main Poudre, Beaver and Stapps Lakes on 

 South St. Vrain Creek, and Gold Lake, just east of Ward. 



The main streams of the Forest, their smaller branches, and the 

 majority of the lakes are well stocked with trout — rainbow and brook 

 trout in the North Platte, Poudre, and Big Thompson Rivers, and 

 rainbow and native in the Laramie. The principal fishing lakes, 

 which are stocked largely with black-spotted and brook trout, are 

 Mclntyre Lake at the head of Mclntyre Creek, Hour Glass, Beaver, 

 Stapps, Brainard, and Long Lakes, and Silver, Goose, Albion, and 

 Rainbow Lakes on North Boulder Creek. 



Big Game Areas 



Lender the protection afforded by the Colorado game laws, mule 

 deer are becoming plentiful and well distributed throughout the 

 Forest. In summer, they may be seen on the high ranges and in 

 bands of from lo to 75 head along the Poudre River and in the Stove 

 Prairie region. Elk from the Yellowstone National Park, introduced 

 by the Forest Service into Estes Park, Boulder, Nederland, and 

 RoUinsville, have scattered from the Poudre River to the south 

 boundary of the Forest, and are thriving in their new haunts. Small 

 bands of mountain sheep may be encountered on the Medicine Bow 



