Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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Skimo95 wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:41 am
cougar wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:27 am Looked to be a guided bike outfitter up there with a shuttle and racks of bikes to take people up and let them ride down. FWIW - the parking passes appear very easy to forge or just print out duplicates, just a page you print out.
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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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two lunches wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:15 pm
Skimo95 wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:41 am
cougar wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:27 am Looked to be a guided bike outfitter up there with a shuttle and racks of bikes to take people up and let them ride down. FWIW - the parking passes appear very easy to forge or just print out duplicates, just a page you print out.
This is illegal?
you can do ya thang shawty its okay to floss
but its still one rule, player:

don't get caught.
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What if I put on for my city?
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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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Skimo95 wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:23 pm
two lunches wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 2:15 pm
Skimo95 wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:41 am

This is illegal?
you can do ya thang shawty its okay to floss
but its still one rule, player:

don't get caught.
--jeezy
What if I put on for my city?
i mean, it's on you if you're taking legal advice from a trapper.
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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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Anyone have a day pass for this upcoming Saturday 7/29/23????
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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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When making the parking reservation on the Aspen website, you do not have to put in your license plate #. In however many years (3? 4?) of the parking reservation system, I have never seen a USFS ranger checking for parking reservations. I have departed after my allowed parking reservation time window on several occasions (yesterday, most recently) and never had anyone ask about it. The USFS hut halfway up the road is unmanned before 5 AM and the road is not gated or blocked.

Putting all this together......Operation Dark Bells is possible.

I have driven to Maroon Lake using both the parking reservation and with the more clandestine approach.
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I am planning on the Bells on 9 Jul 24. Looking for a parking pass or ride in someone else's parking pass. Thanks! Dan
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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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jfm3 wrote: Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:54 pm When making the parking reservation on the Aspen website, you do not have to put in your license plate #. In however many years (3? 4?) of the parking reservation system, I have never seen a USFS ranger checking for parking reservations. I have departed after my allowed parking reservation time window on several occasions (yesterday, most recently) and never had anyone ask about it. The USFS hut halfway up the road is unmanned before 5 AM and the road is not gated or blocked.

Putting all this together......Operation Dark Bells is possible.

I have driven to Maroon Lake using both the parking reservation and with the more clandestine approach.
That's good to know. I have a midnight-4:30 parking pass in August and I was concerned about getting up Maroon Peak (tough enough by itself) and back down by a strict 4:30pm deadline.

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Re: Maroon Bells Parking Question (Seeking Parking Pass)

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buddapilot wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2024 1:15 pm I am planning on the Bells on 4-7 Jul 24. Looking for a parking pass or ride in someone else's parking pass. Thanks! Dan
Posted this in a couple threads already but repeating since this comes up frequently - they release extra parking spaces 3 days in advance at 8am. I successfully took advantage of that to get Saturday midnight to midnight parking recently.

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