Colorado has 41 designated wilderness areas, ranging from the small, such as the 8,095-acre Byers Peak Wilderness Area, to the immense, the 492,410-acre Weminuche Wilderness in southern Colorado.

LA GARITA WILDERNESS, Colo. – A fabulous summer in the mountains got punctuated in a major way for me Monday with a trip to what’s labeled Colorado’s most isolated fourteener, in one of the lesser ...

In 1919, a young U.S. Forest Service ranger named Arthur Carhart was sent to high, remote reaches of northwest Colorado to scout land for homes and roads to be built. He came to a clearing, where a ...