will okanagon be ok?

[mendozer]

the spot I want to go check out isn't in a wildlife area, nor is it in the border of an active fire on that website. How can I know if it's closed? I didn't see any information on USFS road closures

[gilroym]

Last week I was head out toward crawfish lake on the other side of the North Star fire. It wasn't in a burned are but the road was closed just out of riverside. I had no way of knowing if it was closed or not. Think the only way to know for sure is to go look. A few of my other spots seemed like the road should have been closed some still had some fire burning on them and the road was opened.

[ldjbuff]

We were up in 204 for the past 4 days. Lots of areas are untouched by the fires. Saw a lot of deer and a lot of bucks for it being so early.

[ghosthunter]

You cannot rely on the fire maps. I don't think they update them enough.
Both Thompson Ridge And Bridge Creek roads were marked closed Saturday by FS on the map.

But I drove over Sunday spent the whole day on those roads. No indication they were closed. Set in a lawn chair at my camp spot had lunch several folks drove by and waved including FS and National Weather Service.

[Igor]

The fire map shows that the fire was stopped on Cow Creek.  Is that accurate?
We often hunt up the Dry Creek drainage.

[mendozer]

found these resources:

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5307909.pdf

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/okawen/alerts-notices/?cid=stelprd3820244

The latter is a road closure chart. That one's specifically for Methow Valley. They have one for all districts