Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area [AHRA] is a partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management [BLM] and the State of Colorado's Department of Natural Resource's Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, with Department of Agriculture's Forest Service [FS] and the State of Colorado's Department of Natural Resource's Division of Wildlife [CDOW] to manage recreation resources and activities along 148 miles of the river from its headwaters near Leadville down to Pueblo Reservoir.
