Get Involved in Trail Stewardship
Support the places where you love to recreate!
Protecting the natural resources of our public lands is crucial to the future of the Colorado Mountain Club. We are dependent upon the health and condition of our mountain environment for our backcountry recreational endeavors. Millions of people now recreate in Colorado's backcountry every year and while recreation has wonderful benefits, in such high numbers and varieties it can also cause serious impacts to wildlife, vegetation, soils, and other users. Those of us that experience the mountains through climbing, hiking, backpacking, skiing, cycling, or boating are finding our favorite areas threatened by these impacts, further exacerbated by decreasing budgets for management on public lands.
To maintain a basis of support in conserving these fragile areas, it is very important for people to be able to personally experience them through their own form of responsible recreation and to participate in giving back to their favorite places. The Colorado Mountain Club’s Conservation Program embraces this solution by organizing stewardship opportunities in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and other non-profit organizations around the state. Our goal is to find that critical balance between recreation and natural resource protection that will ensure the sustainability of our treasured backcountry for Coloradans today and for generations to come.
Get outside with the Trail Stewardship Program
The Trails Stewardship Program seeks to assist the land managers in maintaining trails and repairing damage from over use of public lands. Local CMC groups work together with land management agencies in their areas to determine the need for trail work. This work could include any range of trail planning, construction, rehabilitation, and restoration. CMC’s efforts in this regard are as varied as restoring trails to the summits of 14,000 ft. peaks to minor maintenance on municipal open space trails. The program not only benefits the land manager and the multitude of other trail users, but serves to protect the natural resources in the area. At the same time, it allows the volunteers to see tangible results from their labor to protect a resource important to them and the CMC community.
How to get involved in Trail Stewardship:
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