![]() This Bear Creek flows through forested highlands, a regional park, skirts some soccer fields and runs in a concrete lined channel before it reaches Fountain Creek. That’s just behind a Walmart store on South Eighth Street. The creek then flows generally northeast and enters Fountain Creek at Interstate 25. This unassuming Bear Creek’s headwaters originate on the east slope of Pikes Peak about five miles southwest of Colorado Springs. The Bear Creek watershed is an important recreational area along the Front Range of Colorado. Namely, all fishing is prohibited in its upper reaches. ![]() It has the most restrictive fishing regulations of any of the Bear Creeks listed in the Parks and Wildlife brochure. ![]() Native cutthroat trout advocates have probably realized that I’ve left out a Bear Creek that’s recently been in the news quite a bit. I can only hope that they all hold trout, and at least some of them still harbor a few bears descended from those that originally must have inspired their name. If this many Bear Creeks have special regulations, you have to figure that there’s a bunch of other Colorado Bear Creeks without regulations that are quietly going about their business. There is a Bear River up north that joins a few other creeks to form the Yampa River. It also lists special “regs” for a Bear Creek that drains into the Conejos River in the southern part of the state and another Bear Creek in the Dolores River drainage. I took a few minutes the other day to consider how many Bear Creeks there must be in Colorado.įrom a fly-fisherman’s perspective, I know there is a Bear Creek around Evergreen because the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Fishing Regulations brochure lists some special regulations for that particular stream. ![]()
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