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- EIN 84-1156471
- (719) 633-6884
- 702 E Boulder St Ste 200 Colorado Spgs CO 80903-3397 USA
- www.trailsandopenspaces.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy
Mission: We provide a voice to the users of our outdoor spaces in the pikes peak region by communicating a collective vision, fostering friends groups, and publicly advocating for trails and open spaces. We identify open space, trails and parks priorities together with citizens and partners, and develop strategies to achieve those goals work with those citizens and partners to find land with conservation values worth preserving and work to get it protected forever help local governments to make their trails, parks and open space master plans a reality develop public/private partnerships to benefit trails, parks and open space inform the public, government, and businesses about recreation and transportation opportunities; and about the economic, tourism, health and physical fitness and educational benefits of trails, parks and open space host events, guided hikes and outings encourage, coordinate and support trails and open space volunteerism, community participation and membership.
Programs: In 2017 we led a public process in teller county to close the final gap on the ring the peak trail with stakeholder meetings in cripple creek, and led a series of discovery tours to engage the public in the area. Our program, bike colorado springs, worked on activating the legacy loop through tours and a bike-in live theater, as well as representing bicycling interests on committees and boards. We fostered the creation of a new friends group to improve boulder park, and took on the fiscal sponsorship of the friends of ute valley park. Our volunteer website listed 200+ projects in city, county and state parks. We have graduated 30+ crew leaders per year for each of the last 5 years, getting more crews on the ground building and maintaining trails. We produced maps of e-bike trails and the legacy loop. 4,000+ email subscribers receive our weekly e-newsletter with information about parks and trails, issues and volunteer projects. 1,000+ individual donors provide financial support for our mission. Other financial support comes from other nonprofits, businesses, and private and corporate foundations.