Summary
Organization name
Durango Trails
other names
Trails 2000
1990
Tax id (EIN)
84-1290857
Category
Environment
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 3868Durango, CO 81302
La Plata County, CO, US
Durango Trails
A nonprofit organization
$2,416 raised by 26 donors
7% complete
$35,000 Goal
About
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For 35 years Durango Trails has built and maintained the trails we use day in and day out. The trails that keep us healthy, happy, and connected. Our mission is to plan, build, and maintain world class trails, educate trail users, and create connections on and off the trail. It is support from donors like you who make our mission a reality.
We are proud of the 2025 trail season, and the impact we have had. Under new leadership of Jen Gersbach-Venzara there is positive energy, collaborative efforts, and a strong vision for the future. We are excited about the direction we are headed. This season our crew cleared 196 down trees, built 4 new trail connections, hosted 41 volunteer events, engaged 414 individual volunteers, and maintained over 100 miles of trail including the largest section of the Colorado Trail, Segment 28.
Durango Trails has paid seasonal Crew Leaders, who lead trail volunteer events and work weekly throughout the season on collaborative projects. We partner the City of Durango, US Forest Service, BLM, and private land owners to maintain the highly used trail networks. Due to recent federal cuts that have impacted some of our partners, Durango Trails has taken on more trail work volume to ensure our trails are safe and accessible to the community. Your donation supports these efforts more than ever.
This year we faced a historical rain event, bringing 6 inches of rain onto our trails. Many miles of trails are washed out, rutted, and in poor condition. As we look ahead to 2026 there will be significant maintenance efforts on our town trails- reroutes, rock armoring, realignment, and tread work.
Thank you for your generous donation to help sustain the trails. Trails are the vital pathways to a healthy, happy, and vibrant community.
Please consider a recurring donation; monthly donations help us budget and have confidence in our planning. We pay for gym memberships and streaming subscriptions, but the trails give us so much more. Colorado Gives will match your first recurring payment.
Mission
Durango Trails plans, builds, and maintains world class trails, educates trail users, and creates connections on and off the trail.
Background Statement
Great ideas often grow into great movements. In the early 1980s, four Durango locals who were trail users first hatched such an idea. A few local business people were sharing lunch at Olde Tymer's Café on Main Avenue when the conversation turned to the imminent growth and development of Durango and how the existing trail system would need to be protected. The four eventually shared the discussion with Ed Zink, Durango native, who carried the idea up the ladder to the then-regional director of the Bureau of Land Management. Together, they dreamed up an independent trails group that would interface with the local land agencies, and Trails 2000 was born. 30 years later the group re-branded to Durango Trails.
The story goes that the group's first board of directors had a two-part goal - preserve and protect Durango's existing trails network and build 200 miles of trail by the year 2000. A great movement began to pick up speed . . .and Durango now boasts 300 miles of trail within 30 minutes of downtown.
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Organization Data
Durango, CO 81302