Buena Vista and Fourmile, Colorado

This is an area they call the banana belt in Colorado..... I left Steamboat Springs in the morning and it was in the thirties and raining, I arrived here and it was clear skies and in the sixties so I guess they are right, it was in late Sept and the weather was gorgeous the whole week I was there. There are a several  ATV Dirt Bike and off-road trails in the Fourmile area and several places to camp, both commercial campgrounds and FS campgrounds with no facilities. The Fourmile area with the ATV and dirt bike trails reminds me a little of Utah with the desert like conditions and big rocks. The nice thing about here is there are several dual sport rides as well.  There is a nice ride up to St Elmo and then over Tin Cup Pass a Jeep trail to Tin Cup.... Then north to Taylor Park Reservoir and come back on Cottonwood Pass into Buena Vista. I meet a friend trail riding the area and we tried to ride it late in the week but ran into a chilly rain in the mountains and decided to turn around. Too bad cause it was really a cool ride. There were a few ATV trails that branched off the main drag that we rode for a while just east of St Elmo that were really rocky and fun. Here is a trail map of the Fourmile area in Adobe PDF.

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