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License Information:

We will purchase all the hunting licenses you and your friends need if you wish.  It would be best to send us the money for an elk, deer, or antelope license (check made out to Craig Sports) just before the 1st of September.  Craig Sports will not have the licenses before then and we would like to purchase them all before we get really busy with the arrival of hunters in September.  I will not know the cost of these licenses until the 1st of March--the DOW sometimes changes their prices from year to year.  You can call me after March 1st, or call Craig Sports at the telephone number listed above for the prices. 

We need ALL of the following information to purchase licenses:

 - Driver's License Number & State
 - Home Telephone Number
- Complete Name
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Complete Address
- Sex
- Weight
- Height
- Hunter Education Number (or none) & State 
- Copy of your hunter's safety card
- Copy of your driver's license

 

*A Hunters Safety Card is required for anyone born after January 1, 1949. If you were born after January 1, 1949, please send a copy of your Hunter's Safety Card with the above information and bring the original with you when you hunt this fall.  Note: Hunter must be at least 12 years old at the time the license is purchased.

Itinerary
Hunters arrive at Morgan Creek the night before their hunt begins.  We enjoy a large dinner and everyone retires.  The next morning everyone sits down to a pancake, bacon, and eggs breakfast.  Hunters and guides ride out of camp before dawn to begin their hunt and return to the house before noon for a bountiful lunch.  Everyone takes a break after lunch to rest, watch TV, or take in the beautiful surroundings.  After the break, it’s back out to hunt until dark.  When you return to camp a delicious dinner is served and everyone can sit around, enjoy the fireplace, have a drink, and watch television in the house or bunkhouse.

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Locating the Morgan Creek Ranch:
Smith Rancho is approximately ten miles north of Hayden, Colorado.  Upon entering Hayden, Colorado, from the east, drive a couple of long blocks staying on the same main highway (Hwy 40) until you enter the downtown area of Hayden (it's about three long blocks).  Turn right when you come to a sign that points to the California Park Road.  The sign is a big green one and it will be very hard to miss. You will drive about a mile and a half and go over a small bridge over the Yampa River.  Then there's a fork in the road--turn right again--staying on the California Park Road (it's very well marked).  Several more miles you will come to another fork in the road.  This time go left (it's also well marked--CALIFORNIA PARK ROAD).  Continue on staying on the main road until you come to a huge gate on the right marked SMITH RANCHO, INC.   Turn in and continue on the private road--don't turn left where all the red buildings are--that's the bunkhouse and headquarters.  Our ranch house is located one mile from the main gate.

Directions to the Holiday Inn:
(for those arriving after November the 8th)

Address: 30o S. CO Hwy 13, Craig, Colorado, 81625
Telephone: #970-824-4000

When one enters Craig from Hayden, the two lanes of Victory Way become three one-way lanes all heading west. After four or five blocks one comes to a stop light with City Market located on the right hand side. Here Victory Way now turns back into a two-way highway. Continue heading west. One will pass Pizza Hut and McDonalds on the left side and after a few more blocks one will also pass Walmart on the left. When one comes to a stop light with a huge Murdoch's Ranch store on the right, turn left onto CO Hwy 13. The Holiday Inn is visible and located approximately two blocks on the left.