Chaffee Recreation Adopters helps you care for all the lands you love.
Help us address fast-paced growth in outdoor use. Problem solve and achieve in our mission for healthy lands and quality recreation.
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Get involved by attending an upcoming
Rec Adopters Event.
Chaffee Rec Adopters head to the Clear Creek drainage on Saturday, Sept. 9th, to clean up and manage campsites along County Road 390 to the popular trailhead and staging area at Winfield. Sign up here to help!
Chaffee Rec Adopters & Salida Mountain Trails meet for National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 23rd at the Burmac (Racetrack) parking lot to work on the dispersed campsite and trail area with the Bureau of Land Management. The event will launch the GARNA Gear Library, with a social “backcountry cookout.” Sign me up!
Join us for one or both days on Sept. 27-28th in the Fourmile Travel Management Area near Buena Vista to kick off this exciting restoration project! Fourmile Creek currently supports just a fraction of its habitat potential because the water is channelized into the creek bed. This project will create conditions that could bring back the wetlands that are vital for many local wildlife species. Check out more details and sign up here.
Help improve critical wildlife habitat! Work with the Forest Service on October 4th on CR 181 east of Salida behind S Mountain to remove old range fencing in an important mule deer winter range area. Sign up
Everyone is invited to join Game Trail Rec Adopters on October 10th to clean up about 80 campsites in the North Cottonwood Creek drainage. CR 365 provides access to the Colorado Trail and three 14ers in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. Help us tidy up a popular and beautiful area! I’d like to join in!
Our goal is to:
- Increase your ability to be an effective steward of our outdoor resources.
- Create a collaborative culture around managing recreation use.
- Keep our beautiful outdoors clean, fun and wild, now and into the future.
As an Adopter you can:
- Be the eyes and ears and record info in our mobile app
- Help clean up, ensure safe campfires and steward trails
- Join group activities and volunteer on your own
Become a Chaffee Rec Adopter
Adopt your favorite recreation area by clicking the map and selecting an area to get started!
Visits to Public Lands Grew 50% since 2020
Empowering volunteers like you is one of the strategies of the Chaffee Rec Plan. By joining us, you are contributing to these important outcomes:
- Clean quality camping on all lands.
- Get the right human resources and critical infrastructure such as restrooms & signs.
- Encourage better behaviors through education, engineering and enforcement.
- Contribute to a shared community culture that helps keep our lands clean, fun and wild, now and for future generations.
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Chaffee Rec Adopters is brought to you by the Greater Arkansas River Nature Association (GARNA) and Envision Chaffee County in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area and Colorado State Land Board. It is funded by these partners, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) and Chaffee Common Ground
