Directions & Maps - Flat Tops

Directions from Denver/Vail

Take I70 West. Continue until mile marker 157 (Wolcott/Steamboat Springs exit). This is a strange exit ramp in the sense that when you are at the end of the ramp at the stop sign it isn't clear what you need to do. You will make a right turn and drive 100 meters or so and be at a second stop sign. That is Route 6. You will make a left and follow route 6 for about 600 meters and you will see a restaurant called the Yacht Club on your left and on your right will be SR 131 that takes you to Steamboat Springs. You will cross over rail road tracks and wind up a hill and continue on SR 131 for a little over 42 miles to the town of Yampa.

Stay on CR 131 until just past mile marker 42 (last place for gas by the way). You are going to travel about 400 meters north of the Kum and Go Gas Station (you will be making a left going westsame side as gas station)
and will pass a beige Colorado Department of Transportation building on your right. You will not see a sign for CR 17. What you will see is a green sign saying turn right for Eagle Rock. YOU DO NOT TURN RIGHT. You make a left instead and that is CR 17. You should see a light blue sign once you turn onto the road that has a Columbine Flower on it and says Scenic Byway. At this point reset your tripometer to zero. You need to do this to make sure you are going far enough down the road for the next turn. If you do not reset your tripometer you could get confused on where to turn. You will be going almost exactly 6 miles down the road once you are on CR 17 which is entirely paved. After about 6 miles you are specifically looking for a brown sign that says turn left for Dunckley Pass. Now you will be on a gravel road. If you miss this turn and stay on the paved road you will eventually be back on 131 a few miles north of the town of Yampa.

You are going to continue on the gravel road for approximately 23 miles. You will come to the top of a mountain pass around mile marker 62- this is Dunckley Pass. You will continue watching the mile marker decrease as you go down the pass. You will come to a country road intersection about 10 miles down from Dunckley Pass. You will continue until you see mile marker 53. We are between mile marker 52 and 53 on the left or east side of the road. We have a large 4x8 sign that says Wild Skies at the end of the driveway. However, it is parallel to road so you will not see it until you arrive. If you hit mile marker 52 or see a sign on this last stretch that says welcome to the Routt Nat'l Forest you just passed it up.

Directions from Grand Junction

Take I70 (to Rifle) and take SR 13 north past Meeker. On the North side of the town of Meeker will be the Flat Tops Scenic Byway also knows as County Road 8. It starts at SR 13 so you can only make a right hand turn going NE. Take this road for 52 miles. After you pass mile marker 52 we are another 100 yards or so on the right side and you will see a 4x8 sign at the end of our driveway that says "Wild Skies."

Directions from Steamboat Springs, CO

When on the East side before you come into Steamboat Springs you will see a SR 131. It ends at Hwy 40 so you can only turn left going south. Take until the town of Phippsburg. Just past the Feed Store on your right is CR 15. Can only take a right turn. Follow it for a few miles maybe 6 miles?? And you will see a sign for Dunckley Pass turn right onto a gravel road. That road may have a road sign that says CR 132 but it is also known as CR 8 when you switch counties.

Directions Directions from Steamboat Springs Regional Airport/Yampa Regional Airport in Hayden

Please call us once you leave Steamboat at 970.276.4868. Go west on Hwy 40 (aka Lincoln, St. in Steamboat) until the town of Hayden, CO (about 30 minutes west). Please call us at the cabin (970.276.4868) to let us know you are in Hayden. Your cell phone will stop working within a few miles. At the only stop light in Hayden make a left going south (stoplight will have a sign saying fairgrounds to the left). There is a small street corner sign on the right NE corner saying Poplar Street but easy to miss. This road is also known as County Road 53. You will drive a couple miles through a residential area and then you will see the CR 53 sign. From Hayden you will drive for about 14 miles until you will see a sign that says make a right turn to go to Hamilton or go left for Trappers Lake. Stay to the left of a large boulder in the middle of the road to go to Trappers Lake. YOU want Trappers Lake on the left. Please take this downhill fork on a curve slowly as it can be slippery if wet.

You are technically on CR 29 now and from this point on you will keep the river on your right-assuming you can see it. At this point reset your tripometer to zero and only go another 2.5 miles on CR 29. You will see a red house with 7 mailboxes in front of it at the next fork. Take a right and you are now on CR 55.

CR 55 turns into CR 19 when you switch counties again, but same road. From the mailboxes you have another 12.5 miles to go. You will hit a yield sign at the end of CR 19. Make a sharp right and you are now on CR 8. You will see the river go under the road in about 200 yards. You will also see the mile markers go from 54 to 53 …. We are at 52100 so if you see mile marker 52 you passed us up. Also if you see a Welcome to the Routt National Forest sign you have passed us up. We do have a sign at the end of our driveway that says Wild Skies. However, it is parallel to the road so you will not see it until you are right on it.

Game Management Unit Map

Airports

Grand Junction(GJT)
Eagle County / Vail (EGE)
Hayden / Steamboat (HDN)

When searching for low air fares. These smaller airports are much more convenient.

Hayden/Steamboat/Yampa Regional (HDN) is the smallest but most convenient and services Steamboat Springs. It’s about a 45 minute drive. Denver (DEN) is the nearest major airport but is a 4 hour drive. Grand Junction (GJT) is the next largest with a roughly 2.5 hour drive.