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RMNP fire staff patrolled the Front Country Prescribed Fire overnight and monitored the perimeter of the 60-acre burn area. Additional crews are working today, continuing to secure and monitor the burn area.Smoke will be visible throughout the day. As the air cools tonight, smoke may settle in low lying areas overnight. Smoke may affect your health: For more information visit https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/wood-smoke-and-health.

Today crews were successful in introducing low-to-moderate intensity fire on the landscape and have removed fuels, including grasses and low shrubs. Another goal of this prescribed fire is to raise the bottoms of the canopies of trees and to increase crown spacing within the burn area.

Fire personnel at Rocky Mountain National Park have successfully completed a test fire for the Front Country Prescribed Fire. The park will continue with its plan for ignitions today, April 15.U.S. Highway 36 from Beaver Meadows Visitor Center to Bear Lake junction is now closed until approximately 2pm today. Visitors will need to enter and exit the park through the Fall River Entrance on US 34. Beaver Meadows Visitor Center remains open today.

Based upon the potential for favorable weather and conditions, fire managers at Rocky Mountain National Park are planning to conduct a prescribed burn on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Firefighters plan to burn approximately 60 acres of the 334-acre Headquarters Unit. This burn unit is located inside Rocky Mountain National Park, west of Beaver Meadows Visitor Center and south of U.S. Highway 36. Because of the fuel type that will be burned, which includes mainly grasses and small shrubs, heavy and prolonged smoke is not expected from this operation.

The prescribed fire operations planned for today will not be taking place in Rocky Mountain National Park due to forecasted high winds. At 6 a.m., fire managers took onsite observations, and the wind speeds measured exceeded our prescription for the burn. Burn operations only occur when weather and conditions allow. Fire managers carefully observe conditions in the days preceding and the morning of any planned burn operation. 

Rocky Mountain National Park News ReleaseMarch 8, 2025For Immediate ReleaseKyle Patterson 970-586-1363

Rocky Mountain National Park News ReleaseDecember 6, 2024For Immediate ReleaseKyle Patterson 970-586-1363Rocky Mountain National Park Announces Plans for Either Pile Burning or a Prescribed Burn on Monday, December 9, 2024

7:00 p.m. Ignitions on the Headquarters Unit of the Front Country Prescribed Fire have been successfully completed, with approximately 100 acres treated during the past two days. Crews were successful in introducing low-to-moderate intensity fire on the landscape and have removed fuels, including grasses and low shrubs. Another goal of this prescribed fire was to raise the bottoms of the canopies of trees and to increase crown spacing within the fire area. To do this, some low branches on trees may burn in addition to the grasses and nearby brush.

November 1:4:30 p.m. Crews have stopped ignitions on the Front Country Prescribed Fire for today after successfully completing approximately 50 acres of the Headquarters Unit. Crews will be in the field into the evening to ensure that areas completed today remain within the unit boundaries. Firefighters will also be staffing overnight to monitor the fire area. 

October 30, 2024 For Immediate Release Kyle Patterson 970-586-1363 Rocky Mountain National Park announces plans for prescribed burn this Friday and Saturday, if conditions allow