why is every public location 4 or more hours away? Options

[rubinscube]

just wondering why the public locations available with membership are so far away from my location, it seems that gold would be right up in them thar hills west of colorado spings area. this is not meant to be a sniveling post , I was just surprised at the "grouping" of locations givin, are public gold placer locations very rare in CO?

[CP]

Hi rubinscube,

Not a problem posting the map up here, but remember, old maps only show where you may wish to begin looking, they will not help you with current land status or claims active now to steer clear of.
Thank you for offering to post up areas you find too, contact me in the future if you have some you think are open that you'd like to share.

Once you've found a spot you'd like to check out, then you must get further into the details of what is there currently....ie withdrawls, ownership sale/trades with BLM or FS since then, claims now active or not if FS or BLM land is the status.
Good job digging into this research too, you'll not only learn alot about our national lands and history, but you might be very suprised as to what you find that is in fact open to prospect when you've completed the research.

CP