PreRegistration is currently unavailable
Please email us at contactus@focusontheforest.org with your name & tshirt size and you will be preregistered. An email wiith be sent with detailed instructions and additional information. We also ask that you review the release on this website prior to coming and a signature can be included on the signin form when you arrive.
We will be working on Old Stage Rd/Upper Gold Camp Rd that goes from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek. Its a beautiful area, but over time it has become a problem area.. Our Graffiti Team will also be focusing on the rocks in the area to clean them up as well.
If you have an off road vehicle we could sure use help with some of the more remote trails in the area so please let us know in the notes when pre-registering.
We welcome and need additional volunteers, but ask that if anyone is joining you to have them shoot us an email so that we can make sure to have enough supplies, food and t-shirts for everyone. If they decide to come last minute that is ok as well as we do plan for a few extras. Saturday looks to be a lovely day, but we suggest that you dress in layers as weather is ever changing up on the mountain.
Due to the Pre-Registration on the website being inoperable, we will be able to register everyone on site in the morning, but request that you let us know you are coming and your tshirt size.. To save time in the morning, we request that you review the waiver form on our website in advance, but we will have copies at sign in as well.
SIGN-IN & SAFETY BRIEFING: 9:00am at Base Camp
BASE CAMP – Directions from both Woodland Park and Colorado Springs are given below. Please read over both and decide which is the best for you. They are both a beautiful drive. Coming from Woodland Park you avoid the hill going up the mountain out of Colorado Springs. Some people decide to come up from the Springs and then go out the top. An added bonus right now is the Rita creation near Victor that people have been going to see. You decide what is best for you. High clearance/4WD vehicles would be helpful for some of the side roads we will work on, but if not, regular vehicles are fine. Extremely low clearance vehicles are not recommended at all.
LUNCH: PROVIDED @ noon
BRING: Refillable water bottle, gloves, wear sunscreen, a coat, long pants & STURDY shoes/boots
PROVIDED: FoF Tshirt, water, gloves (if needed), grabbers, buckets, trash bags, and tools.
Reception is limited in the area, so please text if possible. If you are unable to make it I ask that you please let us know so that you can be removed from the list, otherwise, we will plan to see you there. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
Thanks, Eve
(719) 237-4986
DIRECTIONS to Base Camp from Colorado Springs
It is about 15 miles and takes about 50 minutes, but the road is gorgeous. There will be a steep hill coming from the Colorado Springs side for the first few miles. The dirt road has been graded recently and is not rutted/washed out. It can be a bit washboardy, but is not bad. The last 2.2 miles the road can have some potholes & bumps, but not much more than our local roads. High clearance/4WD vehicles are not required, but extremely low clearance vehicles are not recommended
USING GPS Maps app:
Enter: Penrose-Rosemont Reservoir
Continue 1.3 miles and Base Camp is a LARGE turnout/parking area on your left.
SIMPLIFIED DIRECTIONS
From 21st Street/Cresta Rd
RIGHT on Mesa
RIGHT at the roundabout and take your 1st exit to stay on Mesa
Mesa then takes off to the right, but you need to stay on the main road, which is now Park
LEFT on Penrose
RIGHT at Cheyenne Mountain Blvd (goes to left)/Old Stage Rd, FS 368 (goes to right)
Continue up through the Broadmoor area to the sharp, hairpin turn as it turns to dirt. Large sign says "Bear Trap Ranch 7 miles
Stay on main road for 13.6 miles. Base Camp is a LARGE turnout/parking area on your left
SIMPLIFIED DIRECTIONS with mileages & landmarks from where road turns to dirt (see above)
0.0 Sharp, hairpin turn where road turns to dirt - road was graded 2 weeks ago, is washboardy, but not a lot of bumps or ruts
3.3 National Forest begins
3.8 Landmark: Info Signs, FS 368 on right side
4.9 Landmark: Old Stage Riding Stables & Cantina on left
6.0 Landmark: FS 371 goes to left
6.7 FS 368/Old Stage Rd (main road) curves and to the left and ends and becomes FS 370/Gold Camp Rd,
(Gold Camp Rd also takes off to the right but is blocked)
7.2 Landmark: road to Bear Trap Ranch on left
7.6 Landmark: St. Peter's Dome on the right
10.6 End of County Maintained Rd. - road can be potholed, bumpy and washboardy, but not rutted out.
Landmark: FS 370B & Wye Grounds to the right.
11.5 Landmark: Shooting Starts here
12.3 Rosemont Reservoir Trailhead, parking on right
12.7 FS 370I (cutoff road) on right - off road vehicles/OHV only
13.5 FS 379 on right
13.6 BASE CAMP
DIRECTIONS to Base Camp from Woodland Park
It is 37 miles and takes about 1 hour, but the road is gorgeous, and you avoid the steep hill coming from the Colorado Springs side. It can be a bit bumpy, but is not bad. 4WD & high clearance vehicles are not required, but extremely low clearance vehicles are not recommended
USING GPS Maps app:
Enter: Penrose-Rosemont Reservoir
Unfortunately, it is not all together accurate and may take you on some side roads that use to be shorter, but are now actually closed/dead end. Basically, once you hit the dirt, stay on the main, heavily traveled road and Base Camp will be on your right. There will also be signs along the way confirming that you are going in the correct direction and at intersections that you may question.
SIMPLIFIED DIRECTIONS
Head WEST to Divide on Hwy 24 from Hwy 67/City Market stoplight in Woodland Park for 6.6 miles
Turn LEFT at the 2nd stoplight in Divide onto Hwy 67 toward Cripple Creek, continue for 13 miles
Turn LEFT onto CR 81 toward the KOA Campground and Victor, continue 3.1 miles
Turn LEFT onto CR 8/Upper Gold Camp Rd . (There is a large, brown sign with mileages to places)
Continue on the main road for 14.3 miles and Base Camp will be on your right.
SIMPLIFIED DIRECTIONS with mileages & landmarks
0.0 Intersection of Hwy 24 / Hwy 67 (City Market in Woodland Park), Head toward Divide (West) on Hwy 24
6.6 Turn LEFT onto Hwy 67 in Divide toward Cripple Creek
19.6 Turn LEFT onto CR 81 toward the KOA Campground and Victor
22.7 Turn LEFT onto CR 8 (Upper Gold Camp Rd) at the intersection of CR 81 / CR 8. There is a large, brown
sign with mileages to places
27.1 Landmark: National Forest Boundary
29.6 Landmark: Tunnel
29.9 Landmark: FS 370H & Info Signs on west side
30.0 Landmark: FS 376 to Mason Reservoir, stay RIGHT to stay on main road.
33.1 Landmark: FS 374 goes to right (3 miles to dead end, Elk Ranch Rd), DO NOT TAKE, STAY ON MAIN RD
34.9 Landmark: FS 370G
36.3 Landmark: FS 372 goes down to the to the right and deadends at the Elk Ranch gate at 15.5
37.0 BASE CAMP