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Durango Trails Launches Durango Trail Love Campaign

We are excited to announce the launch of  “Durango Trail Love,” a seasonal campaign designed to promote share the trail and leave no trace ethics.

After an unprecedented trail season in 2020, Durango Trails, in partnership with Alpine Bank and area land managers, are launching a stewardship education campaign to help combat the impact on our area trails and outdoor recreation amenities.

Trails are the gateway to the outdoors. Whether you're fly fishing, fat biking, backpacking, or hiking, you're taking a trail to your adventure.

Before COVID, the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable found about 50% of Americans were getting outdoors. In July of last year, the recent survey found 89% were getting outdoors, and 30% were new outdoorists.

With so many users on the trails, it's important we all practice proper Durango Trail Love and show some love back to our trails!

This campaign is intended not just to speak to visitors and new trail users, but also to remind locals and longtime trail users to lead by example, so that we can all understand how to better care for our land.

Memorial Day Weekend News

Call for Volunteers!

Solstice Sunrise Trailwork Tomorrow!

Big Announcement

The @usacycling has announced the mountain bike team for the Olympic Games for Paris including @@rj_amos, @christopherblevs and @saviliablunk. The Durango streak continues with hometown heroes Riley Amos and Christopher Blevins along with @saviliablunk an @flccycling alum and adopted Durango daughter.

🇺🇸 Mountain bike was added to the Olympics in 1996 with Durango athlete Juli Furtado, continued with the 2000 Games with @ruthiematthes and the OG @tbrowntrip, the first Olympic mountain biker born and raised in Durango and continued with @yotwells @howardgrotts. Congratulations! Your trails are rooting for you!

Citius, Altius, Fortius

Happy Mothers Day

Trail Crew Brew Release Party

Seasonal Wildlife Closure December 1-April

Seasonal Wildlife Closures

VIEW DURANGO WINTER WILDLIFE CLOSURE MAP

Colorado Parks and Wildlife seasonal wildlife closures are December 1 through April 15, with possible extension to April 30 if conditions warrant: 

  • Grandview Ridge

    • Big Canyon and Sale Barn trailheads (access located east of U.S. Highway 160)
    • South Rim Trail, portions of Sidewinder and Cowboy trails on BLM accessed from Carbon Junction Trail 
    • Grandview BLM trails (access from Three Springs)
  • Animas City Mountain

    • BLM lands above the lower loops (approximately 1.5 miles above the 32nd Street trailhead).
  • Twin Buttes Area 

    • All upper trails as marked.
  • Bodo State Wildlife Area

    • Exception: Smelter Mountain Trail is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; dogs are prohibited. Small game hunting is allowed in the area south of La Plata County Road 210.
In addition, the Perins Peak area east of County Road 208 and west of Hogsback is closed through July 31 to protect nesting peregrine falcons. Closures near Cortez include the Aqueduct, Chutes and Ladders, the Summit areas within the Montezuma Triangle Recreation Management Zone and portions of the Cortez Special Recreation Management Area.

The following Durango-area trails will remain open for hiking, biking, snowshoeing, and skiing:

  • Horse Gulch, Telegraph, Crites, and Skyline areas

    • Meadow, Stacy’s, Mike’s, Telegraph, Crite’s, and Sugar trails
    • All of the Raider Ridge Trail to Medicine
    • Ben’s Down and Out and Charmed trails
    • Carbon Junction trailhead at Highway 3 to Telegraph via Crites Connection are open.
  • Lower Twin Buttes trails

    •  Access off of Highway 160 West; upper loops are closed.
  • All of Dalla Mountain Park

    •  Access off of Junction Creek Road.
  • Lower Twin Buttes trails

    •  Access off of Highway 160 West; upper loops are closed.
  • Overend Mountain Park

    •  Access at Leyden Street, Montview Parkway, Crestview Drive, and Hidden Valley Circle.
  • Trails around Fort Lewis College and along the Rim

    •  Lions Den, Chapman Flow, and Jump Line
  • Lower Twin Buttes trails

    • Access off of Highway 160 West; upper loops are closed.
    • The Rim, Squawker, Tawker, and Skyline trails (accessed from the Powerline Trail).
  • The Colorado Trail

    • Access at Junction Creek.
  • A 1.5-mile loop trail on the lower portion of Animas City Mountain

    •  Access off of Highway 160 West; upper loops are closed.
    • Access from the Birket Drive and 32nd Street trailheads or Dalla Mountain Park.
 
Durango Trails “Trail Conditions Report” is updated for winter including areas open for cross country skiing, fat biking and other winter related conditions. Please be sure to check the CAIC website and know before you go.
 

Sepp Kuss Vuelta a España Homecoming Celebration

Sepp Kuss Celebration Schedule of Events - Thursday, October 19, 2023

Parking is limited: all attendees are encouraged to ride their bikes to the event

  • 3:30 p.m. – Speeches and Q&A at Buckley

  • 4:30 p.m. – Bike Parade: South on Main Avenue to the train station, left, then
    left on East 2nd Avenue, and north on East 2nd Avenue back to Buckley Park.

  • 5:15 p.m. – Post Parade Celebration/Autographs/Live Music

  • 7:00 – Buckley Park Closed

  • 303Endurango is going to try to broadcast the event on Facebook Live

  • Volunteers are needed as parade marshalls and park crowd management

Durango Devo’s Executive Director, Levi Kurlander, says, “Durango Devo is proud of all our alumni, and we’re certainly proud of Sepp Kuss! He is a great example of what makes Durango Devo and the Durango cycling community special. We are honored to host the Vuelta a España champion and Tour de France stage winner and celebrate his achievements in his hometown.”

Special thanks for this event is owed to these community partners: Durango Devo staff and sponsors; the City of Durango; Visit Durango and Spoketober; Verde PR; Ska Brewing; Durango Coca-Cola; the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic; Durango Trails; and Fort Lewis College Cycling.

ROADS CLOSED AT 3:00 PM:

  • Main Ave between 12th and 13th St.
  • 13th Street by Buckley Park

ROADS CLOSED AT 4:15 PM:

  • Main Ave south from 12th St.
  • E 2nd Ave between 12th and 5th St
  • 5th St & 12th Street between Main and 2nd.

Join us as we come together to celebrate Sepp Kuss’s remarkable achievements and the spirit of Durango’s cycling community.

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