Become a Part of Our Community Effort
Discover how the Chaffee Rec Adopter Program empowers volunteers to care for our stunning outdoor spaces. Watch our video to learn how you can get involved!
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.
Please check back for opportunities to get involved in a 2025
Rec Adopters Event.
Join the Chaffee Rec Adopters & the BLM for a dispersed campsite cleanup & projects for National Public Lands Day! We’ll be venturing down the river and partnering with AHRA to do some dispersed camping clean up near Wellsville on CR 45 in popular riverside camping areas. Please sign up here.
Everyone is invited to join Game Trail Rec Adopters on October 11 to clean up about 80 campsites in the North Cottonwood Creek drainage. CR 365 provides access to the Colorado Trail and 3 Fourteeners in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. Help us tidy up a popular and beautiful area! Join Us Here
Volunteering is a great way for work teams, boy scouts, church groups and other organizations to spend time outdoors contributing to the lands we all love! Contact Events Coordinator Joe Greiner to inquire about arranging a special cleanup event for your group: adopters@envisionchaffeecounty.org
Our goal is to:
- Increase your ability to be an effective steward of our public lands and 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 recreation areas
- 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!
Let’s take care of the lands, waters & wildlife we love
Empowering volunteers like you is one of the strategies of the Chaffee Rec Plan. By joining us, you are contributing to these important outcomes:
- Exceptional experiences such as clean, quality camping
- More human resources to steward the environment
- Providing appropriate infrastructure such as restrooms, signs & metal campfire rings for safety
- Better behaviors through education, engineering and enforcement
- A shared community culture that helps keep our lands clean, fun and wild, now and for future generations
Sign up for our email list to get notifications about stewardship events
Chaffee Rec Adopters is brought to you by the Greater Arkansas River Nature Association, Envision Chaffee County and National Forest Foundation 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 Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), County of Chaffee and Chaffee Common Ground.
