Colorado: BLM’s proposed tweaks to the Crown rec area will add trails for biking, horsing around in midvalley

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April 12, 2019
Scott Condon

The Bureau of Land Management is tweaking a travel plan for the Crown Special Recreation Management Area in the midvalley to add trails for mountain biking and equestrians, as well as decommission some old routes currently open to mechanized travel.

The agency’s proposed action would:

• Create 11.85 miles of designated new mountain bike single-track trail.

• Convert 10 miles of designated mountain bike trail, all of which is double-track, to foot and horse trail. The new equestrian and hiking trail would provide connection between Pitkin County’s Glassier Open Space, where there is existing equestrian trail, to Nancy’s Path and south to the Divide parking area, at a high point on Prince Creek Road...

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