The primary campfire ban at Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park since August 2020 was put in impact at present and can stay in place till additional discover. The ban was issued attributable to excessive fireplace hazard, prolonged climate forecast, and present fireplace exercise in Colorado.
The fireplace ban extends to all campfires, together with charcoal fires. Petroleum-fueled cooking stoves and grills should still be utilized in developed campgrounds, picnic areas and in designated wilderness campsites. All stoves MUST be capable to be turned on and off.
Smoking is prohibited contained in the park, besides in an enclosed automobile or inside a developed paved space devoid of vegetation for no less than three toes. Guests are reminded to completely extinguish all their butts and eliminate correctly. Fireworks hav all the time been and stay prohibited inside Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park.
Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park Assertion:
Hearth Ban In Impact:
Stage 2 fireplace restrictions are in place, that means {that a} fireplace ban is in impact inside Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park. This ban is efficient starting at present, Thursday, August 1, 2024, and can stay in impact till additional discover.
When fires bans are in impact, all campfires, together with charcoal briquette fires, are prohibited wherever inside Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park. Nonetheless, petroleum-fueled stoves and grills should still be utilized in developed campgrounds, picnic areas and in designated wilderness campsites. Stoves should be capable to be turned on and off.
Smoking can also be prohibited contained in the park, besides inside an enclosed automobile, or stopped inside a developed paved space devoid of vegetation for no less than three toes. Guests are reminded to correctly extinguish all lighted smoking supplies and eliminate correctly.
Fireworks are all the time prohibited inside Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park. Guests are urged to make use of warning and vigilance concerning the usage of fireplace in licensed places.
The final time a complete fireplace ban (Stage 2 fireplace restrictions) was in place within the park was in August of 2020.
Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park all the time has no less than Stage 1 fireplace restrictions in place, the place campfires are prohibited within the park, besides inside designated campfire rings in picnic areas and front-country campgrounds.
These Guidelines are All the time in Impact:
- Fires, together with grills and charcoal briquettes, are solely allowed in designated areas and websites the place a metallic fireplace ring or grate is offered. These areas embody developed campgrounds, some picnic areas, and a few designated wilderness campsites. Campfires and grills are usually not allowed wherever else within the park.
- Petroleum-fueled stoves are allowed in developed campgrounds and picnic areas. A allow is required to make use of a petroleum-fueled range in designated wilderness websites.
- The park might implement stricter fireplace laws, together with fireplace bans.
Hearth Security Ideas:
- To report a fireplace within the park, name 911.
- By no means go away a fireplace unattended. Earlier than leaving or going to sleep, fully extinguish your fireplace by dousing it with water and stirring the ashes till there isn’t a extra warmth, smoke, or embers.
- Watch out with gear comparable to stoves, lanterns, heaters, and grills. Keep away from spilling flammable substances, retailer gasoline away from home equipment, and permit gear to chill.
- Discard cigarettes and matches correctly. Utterly extinguish and eliminate smoking supplies in a cigarette receptacle or carry them out of the park with you.
