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1311 South College
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-498-2770
The Arapaho National Forest straddles the Continental Divide in north central Colorado and is named for the plains tribe which hunted in the foothills and rugged Front Range during the summer. In fact, the game-drive structures that the Arapahoe used to ambush game are still visible. The Arapaho wraps around the Boulder, a town that loves the outdoors. The forest quickly goes from tame to the Rockies at their most wild. The mountains here are raw, exposing visceral geologic formations such as jagged ridges, broken buttresses, cloud-piercing pinnacles, cirques and glaciers cracked by crevasses. Mountaineers come here to ascend the area's Class 4 and Class 5 peaks; still others come just to behold the mountains-to be bewildered and astonished. While the Forest Service administratively combines the Arapaho with the Roosevelt National Forest which lies on the other side of Rocky Mountain National Park, we think there's enough to do in the 'Rap to let it stand alone.
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