Nearest city Idaho Springs Area 301.1 km² Established 1980 | Governing body U.S. Forest Service Phone +1 303-567-3000 | |
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Location Clear Creek County / Park County, CO, USA Address PSICC, Mt Evans Rd, Evergreen, CO 80439, USA Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hours Management United States Forest Service | ||
Backpacking in mount evans wilderness
The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 30 miles (48 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The wilderness area is named after Mount Evans.
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Solo backpacking mount evans wilderness area 3 day trip part 2
HistoryEdit
The first efforts to protect the Mount Evans area involved the purchase of Echo Lake Park and Summit Lake Park as part of the system of parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. for the Denver Mountain Parks. This effort led to a proposal for a National Park overlapping, to a significant extent, what is now the Mount Evans Wilderness Area.
The first large tract of land in what is now the Mount Evans Wilderness area to be formally protected was the Abyss Lake Scenic Area in Pike National Forest, protecting the Abyss Lake cirque and much of the Lake Fork of Scot Gomer Creek, a tributary of Geneva Creek that drains the south side of Mount Evans. This area was designated prior to 1955.