Summit County, CO Off-Road Riders
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OHV FACTS FOR
SUMMIT COUNTY, COlorado AND BEYOND

An OHV sticker is required for trail riding in Colorado. Your state or ours. The $15.25 price tag includes free search and rescue!

Colorado State Parks OHV Registration

OHV registrations and populations in Colorado:

1990-91: 11,744 OHV registrations in Colorado.
2005-06: 109,994 OHV registrations in Colorado.
2005-06: 852 OHV registrations in Summit County, CO.
2006: Est. 4.7 million people in Colorado.
2006- Est. 28,000 population in Summit County, CO.
Colorado OHV Coalition (COHVCO) represents 200,000 members.

Statistical translations based on the above numbers:

A 937% increase (10x) in OHV registrations in Colorado in 15 years.
An average 16.27% increase in OHV registrations in Colorado per year.
2.34% of the Colorado population have OHV's registered.
3% of the Summit County population have OHV's registered.
COHVCO represents 4.3% of the Colorado population.
214 million people a year visit national forests with our White River NF in the top 5. (This is mostly because of skier visits to Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin Ski Areas.)
The Forest Service manages 14.5 million acres in Colorado with 4.4 million acres inventoried as roadless.
OHV use has increased 60% during the last 5 years - Jim Bedwell/ USFS
Summit County, CO is about 75% National Forest with 25% of this designated wilderness. About 8% more of this area is targeted for "IRA" (Identified Roadless Area). These IRA's do have technical single track trails, but most have been closed to OHV's for decades. These closed trails include the Wheeler trail from Breckenridge to Copper Mountain and trails taken over by the "Colorado Trail".