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Deborah Quinn 0433 Redstone Boulevard Redstone, CO 81623 ti ,�992 (303)963-2691 October 30,.1992 ` Kevin Riordan United States Forest Service 620 Main Street Carbondale, CO 81623 Mark Fuller Pitkin County Open Space Board 506 East Main Street Aspen, CO 81611 Wayne Ethridge Board of Pitkin County Commissioners 506 East Main Street Aspen, CO 81611 Suzanne Konchan Planning Office 130 S. Galena Aspen, CO 81611 Steve Renner Coal Program Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 re: Midcontinent Mine access road Forest Service Road 307 To all of you: I am writing as a concerned citizen of the Redstone area in Pitkin County. I recently attended the Bureau of Reclamation's public meeting in Glenwood, during which a Forest Service representative indicated something to the effect that there is no public access on the coal road from Highway 133 to the public lands up the valley. I would like to know if this is in fact the case, and if so, how all of you can work together to assure that we will have public access to all the public lands up that valley. My husband and I own the Redstone Cliffs Motel in Redstone, and we advise visitors during the summer and fall of the public trails available for hiking. The Braderich Creek Trail is the only one in the area which I recommend to people with young children or to older people because all the other trails in the immediate Redstone area are extremely steep and strenuous(East Creek and Placita, for example). I have always indicated that the access to that trail is approximately two miles up the coal road, where there is a clearly marked Forest Service trailhead and an area to park. I walk or bicycle on the road on a regular basis, and use that trail many times during the summer.