About PlinkMap & disclaimer
PlinkMap is an independent, free map of where recreational target shooting is open, restricted or closed on public land in Colorado and Utah. It combines official public data from the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, county governments, the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands (Utah Fire Info) and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and refreshes it automatically several times a day.
Coverage: Colorado's national forests, BLM field offices, CPW ranges and selected counties; Utah's five national forests (Uinta-Wasatch-Cache, Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal), the five BLM Utah districts, statewide fire orders and the two DWR public ranges.
PlinkMap is not affiliated with any government agency.
Disclaimer
Information is provided "as is" without warranty. Status labels are produced automatically from agency data and web pages and may lag behind or misread an agency's current order. When sources disagree we show "Check source". You are solely responsible for knowing and following all federal, state and local laws, fire restrictions, closure orders and posted signs, and for shooting safely with a proper backstop.
Affiliate disclosure
PlinkMap may earn commissions from some outbound links (for example mapping apps or ammunition retailers). This never changes a status shown on the map.
Data sources
| Source | Records | Automation | Source last updated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USFS Arapaho & Roosevelt NF | 16 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer) | Aug 13, 2025 12:06 PM MT | link |
| USFS (Enterprise Data Warehouse) | 4 | full (ArcGIS MapServer) | n/a | link |
| USFS Pike-San Isabel NFs & Cimarron/Comanche NGs | 8 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer, service name contains year '2026' so URL may change each season) | Oct 1, 2026 7:24 AM MT | link |
| BLM (EXPLORE Act qualifying ranges, CO + UT) | 18 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer) | May 6, 2026 9:47 AM MT | link |
| BLM Colorado / Rocky Mountain Area interagency | 72 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer) | Oct 1, 2026 10:43 AM MT | link |
| BLM (fire area closures) | 2 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer) | Sep 8, 2026 2:02 PM MT | link |
| Boulder County | 22 | full (ArcGIS MapServer) | n/a | link |
| Colorado Parks & Wildlife | 21 | semi (no public GIS layer; rendered with headless Chrome and the page's own data response is read). Breaks if CPW redesigns the page. | n/a | link |
| Utah Fire Info (Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands, multi-agency) | 23 | full (ArcGIS FeatureServer) | Oct 1, 2026 3:10 PM MT | link |
| Utah Division of Wildlife Resources | 2 | semi (range web pages fetched and scanned for closure notices; no GIS layer) | n/a | link |
| BLM Utah (Salt Lake Field Office target-shooting closures) | 4 | manual (closure maps are PDFs only; pins are approximate). Page is checked each refresh and a warning is logged if a listed closure disappears. | n/a | link |
| Utah dispersed spots & local ranges (hand-researched: BLM, USFS, Utah County) | 3 | manual (approximate pins). Status follows the live status of the linked area page when that page is not open; forest alerts are watched for closures. | n/a | link |
| USFS forest alerts + newsroom pages (7 Colorado, 5 Utah forests) | 12 | semi (HTML scraping + keyword classification; flagged when it disagrees with GIS) | n/a | link |
| BLM Utah fire restrictions page (5 districts) | 5 | semi (HTML scraping per district; cross-checked with the Utah Fire Info layer) | n/a | link |
Last refresh Oct 18, 2026 3:37 PM MT.