| Adoption Status: NOT ADOPTED
8,203 acres (12.8 square miles)
How to get there
Adam Mountain RA is located about 10 miles SSE of the Town of Eagle.
- From Eagle, go south on
Brush Creek Road (becomes FS 400). Public access to the unit is located at
Sylvan State Park (accessible in winter).
- Take a left on East Brush
Creek Road (FS 415) to reach Yeoman Park (accessible in winter) on the east
side of the area.
- Hat Creek Road (FS 416)
connects Yeoman Park to Crooked Creek Pass and bounds the SE portion of the
unit.
- The USGS 7 1/2’ quads for
Adam Mountain RA are Fulford, Crooked Creek, Seven Hermits, and Red Creek.
Setting
Adam Mountain is at the end of an arm of the Sawatch Range that lies between
East Brush and West Brush Creeks. It is a wooded divide with steep-sided drainages
radiating down each side, and it is a significant feature in the beautiful
Brush Creek Valley. The northern slopes are heavily-forested with old-growth
lodgepole pine. The higher elevations have spruce/fir forests. The elevation
ranges from 7,800 feet at lower East Brush Creek, to 11,158 on Mount Eve. The
south facing slopes tend to be very steep.
What’s special about it?
Adam Mountain RA provides wildlife with a movement corridor from the Sawatch
Range and Red Table Mountain down into the Brush Creek Valley and to Bellyache
Ridge. The area supports a herd of elk year-round, and many deer and bear are
present in the summer. Its proximity to the Woods Lake and Red Table RAs
contributes to landscape connectivity in the Fryingpan River/Eagle River region.
The area receives little human activity, and provides an excellent opportunity
to experience solitude, naturalness, and challenge in a primitive landscape.
Potential threats
Adam Mountain was the site of the proposed Adam’s Rib Ski Area, the construction
of which was approved by the USFS in 1982, but later denied and withdrawn. The
Hat Creek timber sale has occurred adjacent to the SE portion of the unit.
Other info
There are active cattle allotments in the unit. Conservation groups have
identified an additional 2,205 acres of roadless area in the Hat Creek area on
the SE side of the Adam Mountain RA. |
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