If the USFS goes with option two, approximately 787,680 acres across the Pike National Forest roughly 72% of the forest would be closed to dispersed shooting. You can see the proposed closures below.

Late last week, KRCC’s Andrea Chalfin donned flame resistant clothing and a hard hat to join a media group allowed to visit burned areas of the Pike National Forest. She has this collection of ...

Views from Devil's Head Lookout in the Pike National Forest . Tree removal operations starting next week will prompt the temporary closure of several highly visited Pike National Forest areas. The ...

PIKE NATIONAL FOREST, Colo. (KKTV) - Forest rangers are reminding citizens of an easy way to prevent wildfires: not leaving campfires unattended! To date, 77 abandoned campfires have been found ...

Dispersed target shooting — where forest visitors set up targets and practice shooting in an undesignated, undeveloped location — is a legal use of National Forest System lands that increased in ...

Our Christmas tree has a knee. “A crooked tree for a crooked year” was my sales pitch when we spotted the bent ponderosa pine on the snowy downslope of Pike National Forest.First just my 6 ...

Pike National Forest’s restrictions also went into effect on Friday. The Restrictions extend all the way from Colorado Springs almost to Leadville.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) - The search is on for more booby traps on a popular Colorado trail after the U.S. Forest Service discovered a spike strip buried in a trail bed. The warning is out ...

Last Fall, the United States Forest Service commenced with a mitigation project to Pike National Forest around Lake George and Wilkerson Pass of cutting down certain trees, to break up the crown ...