Metro Denver Fire Restrictions In Effect: What To Know

DENVER, CO — A fire ban is in effect for all Denver Mountain Parks properties due to extremely dry conditions and a high potential for danger, parks officials announced Tuesday.

The fire restrictions are in effect for all Denver Mountain Parks properties located in Jefferson County, Clear Creek County and Douglas County:

• Bergen Peak
• Fillius
• Genesse
• Katherine Craig
• Lookout Mountain
• O’Fallon
• Pence
• Bell
• Cub Creek
• Dedisse
• Elephant Butte
• Berrian Mountain
• Newton
• Red Rocks
• Little Park in Jefferson County
• Echo Lake
• Summit Lake
• Hicks Mountain
• Pence Mountain and Forsberg Park in Clear Creek County
• Daniel’s Park in Douglas County

The following actions and forms of fire are prohibited in Denver Mountain Parks and Open Space:

• Building, maintaining, attending or using any fire or recreational campfire, except a recreational fire within a permanently constructed fire grate in a developed park, campground, or picnic area
• Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area that is barren or cleared of all combustible material
• Open burning including ground fires
• Use or possession of fireworks
• All other outdoor spark or flame producing activities

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Grills that use propane gas and are in proper working order are allowed.

>> More information about Denver Mountain Parks regulations can be found here.