Fire Department
North Park Fire Rescue Authority
515 Harrison Street,
PO Box 708, Walden, CO 80480
Chief Jeff Benson
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Additional fire safety messages from the USDA Forest Service to recreationists are below. Campers and other public land users need to follow basic fire safety rules:
- Scrape back dead grass and forest materials from your campfire site.
- Keep your campfire small and under control; make it only as big as you need it.
- Keep a shovel and a water container nearby to douse escaped embers.
- Do not park vehicles in tall dry grass, since hot tailpipes can cause fine fuels to catch on fire.
- Remember that any ignition – cigarettes, campfires, gunfire, vehicles – could be the cause of a wildland fire.
- Grass and other vegetation can dry quickly and is extremely flammable.
- Always follow current fire restrictions.
Stage 1 Fire Restrictions Go into Effect in Jackson County
Beginning Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 12:01 AM, the Jackson County Board of County Commissioners approved going into Stage 1 fire restrictions, along with the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, the Colorado State Forest State Park, and all other State ground in Jackson County.
For the purpose of clarifying these restrictions the following definitions are offered:
A "Developed Area" is an area, whether within city limits or rural, that is groomed, manicured and or watered, where grasses, brush and trees are regularly attended to by the landowner. This includes residential and business areas, improved recreational areas, parks and other common areas.
An "Undeveloped Area" are lands that are not groomed, manicured, or watered, where grasses, brush and trees have been allowed to grow in a natural environment. This includes green belts that are not landscaped or manicured, open space lands, non-manicured park lands, and other areas where the fire hazard presented by the vegetation is determined by the authority having jurisdiction or designee to be an undue wildland fire hazard.
• Campfires are only allowed within designated fire grates in Developed Areas (i.e. a permanent in-ground containment structure at developed campsites). Temporary fire pans and rock campfire rings will not be acceptable. The use of portable stoves or lanterns using gas, jellied petroleum, pressurized liquid fuel or a fully enclosed (sheepherder type) stove with a ¼” spark arrester type screen is permitted.
• No fires of any type, including charcoal, in Undeveloped Areas.
• No smoking except within a designated area, enclosed vehicle or building, a developed area or in an area free of combustibles.
• No use of explosive materials, including “exploding” targets or bullets and tracer rounds, or fireworks.
• Exercise common sense and industry safety practice when welding or operation of an acetylene or other similar torch with open flame always cleared safe area of vegetation and combustibles.
We need to work together to reduce and minimize any additional strain on our Emergency Services and Medical Personnel, as well as the people, friends and neighbors in our communities.
- Other Contacts
2468 Jackson Street
Laramie, WY 82070
307-745-2300
www.fs.usda.gov/mbrMedia Contact:
Aaron Voos
307-745-2323
aaron.voos@usda.gov
- Routt National Forest:
Craig Dispatch Center, 970-826-5037
Medicine Bow National Forest, Thunder Basin National
- Grassland:
Casper Dispatch, 800-295-9952
For more information contact your local Forest Service Office, go to our website at www.fs.usda.gov/mbr, or follow the MBRTB on Twitter, @FS_MBRTB