Our friend, US Forest Service Ski Area Specialist, and fellow Landscape Architect, Erik Martin was instrumental in convincing the Snowmass Club project director that we had a viable product to provide a fire lane with grass as the surface. Erik and Snowmass Club got us rolling in business over 25 years ago by being the first site for Grasspave2, aka Ritterings, aka Grassrings. When this development built another lodge of rooms on the west side, they tore up the first installation and then ordered more product to reinstall the fire lane around the end of the new structure. Landscape Workshop has repeatedly installed our products in the mountain communities.

Off the back parking lot near the tennis courts is the one end of the fire lane. Notice the low profile curb for easy fire truck access. The pine tree on the right is a good vertical marker in heavy snow. The next photo is the view just left of this one.

Just left of the first photo, you’ll see the hydrant and the continuation of the curb detail which has a curve into a indented section to subtley mark the fire lane.

The wide-angle lens makes this golf cart path look wide. Grasspave2 was used on both sides of the path to accomplish the width requirement for fire trucks.

Vertical changes in grade are kept to less than 5% for fire lanes.

Front entrance - fire lane is located around the left side.