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
About
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In Durango, the trails are the shared meeting places for the community. We are so lucky that the extensive network in our backyard does so much to keep us healthy, happy, and connected. Durango Trails, with the support from donors like you, keeps this trail network maintained and accessible to the amazing town that relies on it.
Durango Trails has a paid seasonal crew who lead trail volunteer events and work weekly throughout the season on our 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, as well as extending trail seasons, 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.
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.
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Mission
Durango Trails plans, builds, and maintains 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 hatched such an idea. Over lunch with friends at Olde Tymer's Café on Main Avenue, 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 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 well over 300 miles of trail within 30 minutes of downtown!
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Organization Data
Durango, CO 81302