Volunteer
HOW TO HELP
Headwaters Trails Alliance offers many opportunities for community members and businesses to get involved.
Click on the tabs below to learn more about each program. Then sign up today!
Adopt-A-Trail Program
The HTA Adopt-A-Trail Program – Outdoor recreation is vital to the physical and economic health of Grand County. Maintenance of multi-use trails is a critical component of sustaining our outdoor recreation opportunities. Due to budget cuts, land management agencies in recent years have been unable to provide the intensive, consistent monitoring and maintenance required to keep trails accessible for all users. Increasingly, these agencies and the local community have looked to Headwaters Trails Alliance (HTA) to provide the financial resources as well as the leadership, management, and supervision for necessary trail maintenance. The Adopt-A-Trail program (AATP) gives groups and individuals the opportunity to provide some of the labor hours and resources needed to repair and maintain the trails. Based on a collaborative effort involving Headwaters Trails Alliance, USFS, Fraser Valley Partnership for Trails, Winter Park/Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce, Town of Winter Park, Winter Park Resort, Colorado State Trails, Great Outdoors Colorado, committed adopters and volunteers, the AATP is flourishing.
National Public Lands Day
Our 18th Annual NPLD will be Saturday, September 22, 2012! Check back for details!
Become a Forest Steward or Volunteer
Some of our forest stewards and volunteers have donated their skills with heavy equipment — BUT for most trail work, no special experience is necessary! There are no age limitations – we encourage families to participate together. We even provide lunch and snacks! We are extremely flexible. Weekend, weekday, and after-work times are available. Whatever fits YOUR schedule! Friends, neighbors and club members often sign up as a group to work on a trail. Community service credit is also available for trail crew work.
For an application to become a Forest Steward or Volunteer, please click here.
We need trail crew volunteers on the Fraser to Granby Trail during the summer trail building season. This trail has been built primarily by outstanding community volunteers. If you are interested in helping out, please contact us!
Special Event Volunteer
If you don’t want to work on a trail crew and can’t adopt a trail, what can you do? Become a special event volunteer! Let us know what YOU would like to do and we’ll call you when we need help!
Winter Grooming
HTA’s winter grooming program offers free cross country skiing from Winter Park to Granby thanks to the equipment donated by Dave Zink and Tidd Tech, Ltd. All of the grooming is done by volunteers. If you would like to volunteer with this project, please give us a call. Thanks!
