For this outing, we will be going a little more off-grid. A little further out into Pike National forest is a nice group dispersed camp site. 

Things to keep in mind for dispersed camping: 

• There are no facilities, so you must bring your own and pack everything out with you.

• Bring enough water for all your camping needs, there is none nearby.

• While we are not all that far if some dire need arises, we will be more than an hour from anything so plan accordingly.

• There is currently no fire ban in the area, but that could change at any time. 

  http://www.coemergency.com/p/fire-bans-danger.html 

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39°05'45.0"N 105°22'33.6"W

All routes include more rugged dirt roads.

Directions from Pine Junction: 

Take 285 west into the mountains. Turn on highway 126 towards Pine / Buffalo Creek. 

About 21 miles, Right after the Cheesman Canyon Trailhead there will be a sharp right turn onto a small dirt road ( Wigwam Creek Rd.) There are signs for Cheesman lake and Goose Creek Campground. 

Follow the road about 9 miles following signs for Goose Creek campground until you pass it. Keep going about another 9 miles. The road will turn into Matukat Rd on the maps but there aren't any signs.

There will be a turnoff to the right directly after a sharp bend in the road. 

Alternate Route:

The alternate way is to stay on 285 until Jefferson and turn left down Terryall Rd. 

Go down Co Rd 77 ( Terryall rd ) about 33 miles and turn left on Matukat Rd. 

The site is about 6 miles down on the right hand side. 

This route is longer but is a much shorter amount of dirt even if that dirt is a bit rougher.

Either way, plan on about 2 hours from most of Denver Metro. 

The turnoff has a loop with a couple of big dispersed sites, hopefully we get the ones further back that are a bit nicer but I will station someone in a chair or the like to point folks to where we will set up base camp.