Deep Cut Guide

Climbing on Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests land

189 crags on this site sit on ground Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests manages, with 4,157 routes between them. Everything below is what Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests itself states.

One administrative unit covering Boulder Canyon's upper reaches, the St Vrain canyons, Poudre Canyon and the Indian Peaks. Nothing is charged to walk in and climb; what the forest does regulate, and what a climbing trip runs into, is where and how long you camp.

What they require

Fees
No entrance fee for the forest. Some locations require a reservation, pass, permit or day-use fee.
Overnight
Camping more than 14 days in a 30-day period, or more than 30 days in a 365-day period, is prohibited across the forests and the Pawnee National Grassland. Dispersed camping is within 300 feet of most Forest Service roads, on National Forest land; the MVUM shows which.

Read against source 1, source 2, source 3 and checked 2026-09-29 by John Crawford. Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests's own climbing page is the one to believe over this one.

A heading missing from that list is a question Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests's pages don't answer, not a rule that doesn't exist. This page never says climbing is allowed somewhere — none of these pages says that either, and reading permission into a page's silence is how people end up somewhere they shouldn't be.

Where the line matters

61 of these crags have another manager's land within 250 m of their map point. A crag's map point is not the rock — it can be hundreds of metres out — so at those crags the wall itself may be on someone else's ground, under someone else's rules. Each crag's own page names the neighbour.

Boulder

Alpine Rock

Estes Park Valley

Fort Collins

Lyons

Steamboat Springs

Grand County / Fraser Valley

Empire

Dumont vicinity

Georgetown

Morrison/Evergreen/Littleton

CO Ice & Mixed

Coal Creek Canyon

Idaho Springs

Eldora

Equinox Gardens

Golden

Rollins Pass

Swamp Rock

Which crag sits on whose land comes from USGS PAD-US (public domain), read at each crag's map point. Every manager whose rules we've written down, and which ones we haven't. Closures are tracked separately and dated.