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STREAM TRACKING IN THE ARAPAHO & ROOSEVELT NATIONAL FORESTS

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Do you like hiking and exploring your national forests?

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Become a volunteer to record streamflow conditions throughout the

Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests along the Colorado Front Range

There is more than one way you can help contribute observations of flow conditions on smaller streams that cross hiking trails or roads throughout the forest:

Hike one of six 

priority trails that have established hotspots of interest.

Sign up to hike a trail below.

Join us on a guided hike to learn to stream track while meeting new people

Hike any trail or road and establish your own sites

Sign up below!

Priority Trails

Priority Trails and Guided Hikes

The priority trails for this season focus on high-elevation streams near Granby and in the Cache la Poudre watershed near Fort Collins. The goal is to have each of these trails visited once a week in order to capture streamflow conditions from now through October 1.  Sign up for a trail on a week that is still open to help! You can hike the trail at any time during the week you sign up for.  

TRAILS NEAR

GRANBY

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TRAILS IN THE

CACHE LA POUDRE WATERSHED

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Guided hikes

GUIDED HIKES

Come hike with the Stream Tracker Team and learn along the way about intermittent streams and how to stream track. 

JULY
16

BLUE LAKE

SEPT.
3

BIG SOUTH

EMMALINE LAKE

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AUG.
13

AUG. 16

LORY STATE PARK

POSTPONED

Explore the Forest- Other Trails of Interest

Blue Lake Trail

Blue Lake Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Lower Dadd Gulch

Lower Dadd Gulch

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Crosier Mountain Trail

Crosier Mountain Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Resthouse Meadows Trail

Resthouse Meadows Trail

Clear Creek Ranger District

Big South Trail

Big South Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Young Gulch Trail

Young Gulch Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Chicago Lakes Trail

Chicago Lakes Trail

Clear Creek Ranger District

High Lonesome Trail

High Lonesome Trail

Sulphur Ranger District

Emmaline Lake Trail

Emmaline Lake Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Lion Gulch Trail

Lion Gulch Trail

Canyon Lakes Ranger District

Herman Gulch Trail

Herman Gulch Trail

Clear Creek Ranger District

Why track streams?

Intermittent streams make up 69% of the total stream lengths on National Forests* and yet these smaller streams are rarely monitored and often poorly mapped. Your observations will be used to improve the mapping of where streams are located and how often they flow. Improved maps and increased monitoring of intermittent streams will then aid in management decisions made for the ARNF such as where streamside buffers are needed, road construction and culvert sizing, and source water protection plans. 

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