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From left to right: Sandy Hollingsworth, Lisa Leben, Jodie Hartman-Ball, Tim Mauk, Joseph Walter, and Jessie Peros cut the ribbon on the new Clear Creek Sport Shooting Park.
Group photo of those who helped develop the Clear Creek Sport Shooting Park.
CLEAR CREEK/GILPIN — The Clear Creek Sport Shooting Park is now officially open after a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 25, 2026, at the new facility near Dumont.
The park will be operated by the Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District (CCMRD) and be open year-round.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was the culmination of years of effort to develop an alternative to shooting in the national forests. Increases in population along the Front Range and the popularity of outdoor recreation created an unsafe situation in the forests with recreational sport shooting.
In 2019, the National Forest Service signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder, and Larimer governments to restrict recreational sport shooting in the national forests if the counties developed shooting ranges as an alternative.
Clear Creek County partnered with Gilpin County to develop the property at 3204 Stanley Road, which used to be a private shooting club. Using grants from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), along with contributions from the counties, Clear Creek County government remediated the old shooting range and developed the new park.
The new park includes 29 short- and long-range shooting lanes along with lanes for archery and axe throwing. The shooting benches can accommodate right- or left-handed shooters. There is a clubhouse with a classroom that seats 50 and is available to rent.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was preceded by comments by Clear Creek Commissioner Jodie Hartman-Ball, Gilpin County Commissioner Sandy Hollingsworth, former Clear Creek Commissioner and current Deputy Director of CPW Tim Mauk, and CPW District Wildlife Manager Joseph Walter. After the ribbon cutting, the park opened for operation at noon.
The park will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days a week; it will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. There are hourly, monthly, and yearly rates for use of the facility with discounts for Clear Creek and Gilpin residents. A signed liability waiver is required from each user before being allowed on the firing line.
The National Forest Service,in conjunction with the County Sheriffs’ departments will be implementing recreational sport shooting restrictions in areas of Arapaho and Roosevelt forests that were identified in the 2019 MOU. The forest service maintains an interactive website (bit.ly/44NlYxb) that identifies the areas where recreational sport shooting will be restricted.
More information about the Clear Creek Sport Shooting Park can be found at the CCMRD website (clearcreekrecreation.com). Click on the Clear Creek Sport Shooting Park tab. The Clear Creek and Gilpin County governments also maintain webpages about the project.
