Mount Goliath

Location:    Clear Creek County   
Size:   160 acres
Designated:    October 1980
Land Manager:    US Forest Service

Large virgin stands of bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) intersperse with Engelmann spruce forest and alpine grassland on this 160-acre natural area located at timberline on the flank of Mount Evans.  The gnarled and twisted pines on windswept granite ridges represent the northernmost occurrence of bristlecone in Colorado.  One of the oldest known bristlecone pines in Colorado (more than 1,500 years old) is found here.