The Roosevelt National Forest is a National Forest located in north central Colorado . It is contiguous with the Colorado State Forest as well as the Arapaho National Forest and the Routt National Forest . The forest is administered jointly with the Arapaho National Forest and the Pawnee National Grassland from offices in Fort Collins , and is denoted by the United States Forest Service as ARP ( A rapaho, R oosevelt, P awnee).
6-792: The forest encompasses a mountainous area of the foothills on the eastern side of the Continental Divide of the Front Range in Larimer County and Boulder County . In Larimer County it includes the upper valleys of the Cache la Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers . It includes forested areas along both sides of the Poudre Canyon and along the north and east sides of Rocky Mountain National Park . Smaller parts of
12-602: The National Wilderness Preservation System . Four of them extend into neighboring National Forests, and one of these also onto National Park Service land (as indicated). According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hourglass Reservoir has a subarctic climate , abbreviated "Dfc" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded at Hourglass Reservoir was 91 °F (32.8 °C) on July 8, 1989, while
18-760: The Colorado National Forest in 1910, and was renamed to honor President Theodore Roosevelt in 1932. The forest has a total area of 813,799 acres (1,271.56 sq mi, or 3,293.33 km). Several volunteer groups work with the US Forest Service to help manage the Roosevelt National Forest, including the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers . There are six officially designated wilderness areas lying within Roosevelt National Forest that are part of
24-662: The coldest temperature recorded was −33 °F (−36.1 °C) on February 2, 2011. Foothills Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range , higher hill range or an upland area. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills and the adjacent topographically higher mountains , hills, and uplands. Frequently foothills consist of alluvial fans , coalesced alluvial fans , and dissected plateaus . Foothills primarily border mountains, especially those which are reached through low ridges that increase in size closer and closer to
30-757: The forest also extend into northern Gilpin and extreme northwestern Jefferson counties. The Roosevelt National Forest is divided into two ranger districts, the Canyon Lakes Ranger District , with offices in Fort Collins, and the Boulder Ranger District, with offices in Boulder. The Roosevelt National Forest began on May 22, 1902 as part of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve. It was renamed
36-616: The mountain, but can also border uplands and higher hills. Areas where foothills exist, or areas commonly referred to as the foothills, include the: Another word for a foothill region is "piedmont", derived from "foot of the mount" in Romance languages . The Piedmont region of Italy lies in the foothills of the Alps , and several other foothills in other parts of the world are called "piedmont" , and include: Ecosystems of piedmonts (foothills) are often known as submontane zones, relating to
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