Colorado have comprehensive info website for conditions?

[rexlion]

Does the state of CO have, by chance, a particular website where they list detailed, statewide fire restriction and air quality (smoke) info? I've been planning to boondock/dry canp my way through CO starting about a week from now. I want to make sure I don't get into heavy smoke or mistakenly cook with charcoal where it's banned.

I was going to camp around Canon City one or two nights and Buena Vista one night, before heading north to the Craig area, and then maybe Dinosaur. This all takes me toward a 1-day business meeting in SLC (tax expense trip, woohoo!), after which I'm hoping to return through Telluride or Ouray and see if I can get on a tour over the Black Bear. No reservations anywhere, so it's all flexible. But I don't want to find myself in the middle of a smoke plume or anything, so I thought I'd ask here.

[rexlion]

westernrvparkowner wrote:

rexlion wrote:
Ok, so it's propane cooking all the way on this trip. No sense in taking chances. I am also packing a fire extinguisher.

I sure hope the fire extinguisher isn't expected to be a weapon against a forest fire...

Oh no, absolutely not. I have a whizzer for that! 😄 LOL, just kidding.

[westernrvparkow]

rexlion wrote:
That is a nice map view of the fires. Thanks, westernrv! Hmm, looks like some small fires in NM and one in Utah I need to keep an eye on, too.

Ok, so it's propane cooking all the way on this trip. No sense in taking chances. I am also packing a fire extinguisher.

I sure hope the fire extinguisher isn't expected to be a weapon against a forest fire. Every year someone vows to stay a protect their property to their dying breath during an evacuation. They get their wish.
And if destroying a few hundred homes, thousands of acres of land and killing the wildlife that resides within that forest is enough, there is another good reason to be overly careful with fire. Many states in the west have a law that makes the person who starts a forest fire responsible for the costs of fighting that fire. A multi-million dollar bill for fire fighting will empty most people's piggy banks.

[dkreuzen]

You should also check the Colorado DOT site for road closure information.

http://www.cotrip.org/map.htm#/roadConditions

[rexlion]

That is a nice map view of the fires. Thanks, westernrv! Hmm, looks like some small fires in NM and one in Utah I need to keep an eye on, too.

Ok, so it's propane cooking all the way on this trip. No sense in taking chances. I am also packing a fire extinguisher.

[Two_Hands]

Thanks westernrv for that web site info. Best one I have found.

[RAS43]

There is a fire ban just about state wide which includes charcoal grills. I don't believe that it will be lifted anytime soon as conditions are so dry.

[westernrvparkow]

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/ is the go to website for forest fire information.

[Colo_Native]

I don't know of one but the conditions change on a daily basis depending on weather and wind, I am in the Denver area and some days we have smoke haze some we don't. If you are any where around the fires you will most likely have smoky conditions.

[2oldman]

Google CO fires