This map covers the Front Range from Fort Collins to Woodmoor (from the Cache la Poudre Wild and Scenic River to South Park). It encompasses the southern Medicine Bow Mountains, Mummy Range, and Never Summer Mountains. From east to west it covers from Aurora to Breckenridge.
It covers ten state parks, two Bureau of Land Management recreation areas, parts of four national forests, all or part of thirteen wilderness areas, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Public open space parcels which contain trails are also shown. Every recreational site and area is shown: trailheads, picnic areas, campgrounds, fishing access sites, boat launch sites, and alpine and nordic ski areas.
Urban trails (as in neighborhood trails) and most urban bike paths are not shown on the map. Including everything in urban areas at this scale makes the cartography cluttered and messy. Bike paths which connect different towns or different parts of the Denver metro area are shown to highlight the arterial routes.
Like all Basin and Range maps, this combines hypsometric (changes in elevation) coloring and vegetation coloring for a very realistic visualization of the landscape. Nobody else in the mapping world does this.
Map Detail Images
size: 32 x 50 inches
scale: 1:150,000









