Questions on Guanella Pass development

I can't speak for the entities that were involved in this process (which was lengthy and took considerable effort, according to more than one presenter at the Grand Re-Opening Celebration ), but after driving it, I myself would not call it a "fast" road - it's still twisty and windy (long i, not short) and impossible to go more than 15 in many places. Yes, it would be beautiful to travel by motorcycle but considering the abundance of wildlife (we watched a marmot that darted out in the road in front of the car in front of us and narrowly escaped being flattened), you'd have to have a death wish to ride it fast - one bighorn sheep around a blind curve is seriously going to ruin your day.

Yes, environmental impact studies were conducted. They did not review their results for the ceremony, I can only assume that they took them into consideration when engineering the road.

No one mentioned litter or facilities clean-up; I would hope that is happening. If our regular highways are any indication, it will probably be individuals or organizations who take it on as volunteers.

My bigger concern is the number of campfires happening up there. A lady who is running for Park Co Commissioner posted last week in one of the local FB groups that she went up the weekend before (right after all the fire bans were enacted) and confronted a dozen people who had campfires burning despite the fire ban. Not one made a move to put out their fires, one knew about the ban, one said ParkCo was allowing fires, the rest challenged the news or denied they were even in Park County ( Clear Creek County has Stage 1 Fire Restrictions as well, and it sounded as if from her post that none of these fires were in acceptable permanent fire grates). This level of ignorance, arrogance, and outright carelessness is frightening, especially with the recent reminder of the Cold Spring Fire and loss of 8 homes and pets due to those campers who incompletely extinguished their campfire).