Jefferson County Pauses Controversial Trailhead Plans

Nearby homeowners said the trailhead's parking lot would threaten lives during wildfire season, while commissioners wanted more details on the overall plans. Jefferson County held off green-lighting the construction of trails, a trailhead and parking lot near the mouth of a mountainside community,, whose residents turned out to oppose the idea. County commissioners were more turned off by the application than concerns of nearby homeowners, however.

The hiking area in Coal Creek wouldn't open until 2027; JCOS has until then to pick a location for the trailhead, design the trails and obtain proper permitting, according to planners. Trail construction will begin before the trailhead and parking lot because of seasonal limitations and because the trails take more time, but the county has no firm deadline for trail construction.

But passionate arguments by Blue Mountain residents didn't sway the decision of the nine-person Planning Commission, so much as their confusion over what they were voting for. Randolph Baca, a firefighter with the Coal Creek Canyon Fire Protection District, said that"most of us have experienced the congestion that occurs at other trailheads around our state" and"there will potentially be some major interference with fire department operations such as narrowing Blue Mountain Drive."

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