Tag: Colorado Recreational Use Statute
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Colorado Recreational Use Statute amendment clears first hurdle
A Colorado coalition is one step closer in its mission to ease liability concerns among people allowing recreation on their private properties. A bill amending the long-standing Colorado Recreational Use Statute recently passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 5-0 vote. Last year, a similar proposal was struck down by that committee, sparking closure of…
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Deal in the works to preserve access at Ouray Ice Park amid liability concerns
The liability concern sweeping popular recreation lands in Colorado has come to a world-renowned destination for ice climbing. For decades during winter’s freezing days and nights, crews have run water from pipes and shower heads down the Uncompahgre River Gorge to form huge curtains and daggers that call to tens of thousands of axe- and…
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Coalition seeks to quell liability concerns that have closed Colorado 14ers
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A coalition is growing with the hopes of fixing what many recreation advocates see as a big issue facing Colorado’s outdoors. The coalition is called Fix CRUS, in reference to the Colorado Recreational Use Statute. That’s the long-standing provision that some legislators, advocates and landowners attempted to amend earlier this year in hopes of easing…
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Some Colorado 14ers have closed after legal wrangle. What might be next?
Owners of properties where Coloradans hike and play in the outdoors had hoped to feel better about allowing that access after a hearing this month at the state Capitol. Instead, some are feeling more worried than ever. That includes Patrick Schilken, who has long held land along the base of 14,000-foot Mount Sherman in Park…