Vacation Trips in the 



Holy Cross National Forest PageFourteen 



yourself, look up the nearest telephone, get to it as quickly as possible, 

 and call up a forest officer. If a toll call is involved when making a 

 hre call, "central" should be requested to "reverse" the toll. The 

 forest officials will gladly pay for the message, and will also appreciate 

 this cooperation on your part. 



More than half the fires which occur in the National Forests of 

 Colorado are due to carelesnesss on the part of hunters, campers, or 

 visitors. An unextinguished camp fire, a hghted match, or a cigar or 

 cigarette butt carelessly thrown to one side may start a conflagration. 

 Forest fires not only destroy valuable timber, but dry up the fish- 

 ing streams, drive away wild life, and turn the beauty spots of Nature 

 into desolate wastes. The laws impose a fine of $500, or 1 2 month s 

 imprisonment, or both, for setting fire to timber, brush, or grass, 

 or for leaving a camp fire without completely extinguishing it. 



CLEAN UP YOUR CAMP. 



A good woodsman always maintains a clean camp, and bums or 

 buries his tin cans and other refuse. Camp sanitation is of special 

 importance in the Rockies where so many of the streams by which the 

 visitor pitches his tent go to supply domestic water for the cities and 

 towns of the plains. Carelessness in such matters is a menace to 

 public health and can not be tolerated. 



HOW TO REACH THE HOLY CROSS NATIONAL FOREST. 



The headquarters of the Holy Cross Forest, located at Glenwood 

 Springs, is reached from Denver and Colorado vSprings by the Denver & 

 Rio Grande Railroad. One may also make the journey by automobile 

 over the "Midland Trail" from Denver, or the " Pikes Peak Ocean to 

 Ocean Highway " from Colorado Springs. The former highway crosses 

 the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass at an elevation of 1 1 ,41 5 feet, 

 and the latter at Tennessee Pass at an elevation of 10,276 feet. The 

 northern part of the Forest may also be reached from Denver by the 

 Denver & Salt Lake Railroad ("The Moffat Road"). 



