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Major access points on the western side include the Hayden Pass Road, Crestone Creek, and the Medano Creek Road from the Great Sand Dunes National Monument. Several other lower standard roads also provide access to the Forest boundary or the WSA boundary, but many of these have no public right-of-way and access is controlled by the private landowners. There are also several low standard four-wheel drive roads which penetrate short distances inside the WSA but these al;'e closed to public use, Two four-wheel drive roads (Medano Pass and Hayden Pass) divide the northern and southern portions of the study area from the central portion. The Blue Lakes four-wheel drive road on the southwestern corner of the area penetrates to within about 1 mile of the divide, The Rainbow Trail parallels the eastern boundary of the study area and Forest boundary from Music Pass to the northern end of the WSA. Motorized use is allowed on the trail. Numerous trails provide access Trail toward the summit of the Range and the high lakes. Due to the mountain range, many trails reaching the divide and do not except in a few places, from the Rainbow Sangre de Cristo the ruggedness of terminate before cross the divide Motorized use is allowed on the Comanche-Venable and Lake-of-the-Clouds Trails and on the Como Lake Road. 16. Range The Sangre de Cristo WSA contains portions of three existing livestock allotments (see Figure 13) on the San Isabel Forest with a permitted use of approximately 109 animal unit months per year. There is an additional 4,425 acres of potential suitable range with an estimated capacity of 3,500 animal unit months per year. The area on the parts of five stocked with a months per year Rio Grande Forest contains all or livestock allotments. Three are permitted use of 928 animal unit on 2,680 acres of sui table range. 72 CC:2680