CO Unit 54 Soap Creek Wild Fire

[oopslala]

Title pretty much explains it all. I'm the host at soap creek campground and we got evacuated 2 days ago. The only details i know about it at the moment is that it was roughly 2 miles behind the campground when it started, and had spread roughly 5 acres. I'll post more details as I find them out. I don't think it spread too much considering I couldn't find anything about it online.

Just thought I'd give those of you planning to hunt the area a heads up.

 

[usmc99]

Wow. Hope it doesn't spread to far. No good at all.

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[chindits]

A burn wouldn't be so bad in that country. It's all going to be dead in a few years from beetle kill and it will be waiting to torch like the La Garittas down south.

 

[Teeton]

54 is my favorite place to hunt. Over the years I have hunt it over 100 days. Not hunting it this year as I drew a u-76 tag.. If I tagged out early I was going to come up to 54 as I have friends hunting it this year. I'll have to look up the fire on the forest service map to see where it is. Ed

 

[Huntall]

Hey I'm planning on hunting that area this fall, any further info on the fire? Just trying to plan ahead

 

[justinspicher]

Call the USFS ranger district it's in and they can answer your questions.

 

[Vids]

Here is a great website for tracking CO wildfires (and other states):

InciWeb the Incident Information System: COLORADO Incidents

Nothing showing up yet though.

 

[slick trick]

i heard it is contained

 

[oopslala]

I've been back at the site for a few days now. From what I can tell the burn didn't go far enough up to effect any elk country. We've had lots of rain in the last week as well. I don't think it ever got big enough to be shown on any of the sites that show wild fires. Likely there was rock face on each side so I think it was bottlenecked eventually. Couldn't even find it when I looked for it driving on the service road