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From the Telluride Daily Planet: RTA Cycles Through a Hefty To-do List

From the Telluride Daily Planet: RTA Cycles Through a Hefty To-do List

January 11, 2019 News, Trails Update No Comments

Here’s a great article from Telluride’s Daily Planet about RTA accomplishments & plans:

Trail improvements, bike repair station, pump track are top projects for 2019

  • By Erin Spillane, Planet Contributor
  • Jan 11, 2019

Since its establishment less than two years ago, Rico Trails Alliance (RTA) has accomplished a lot. Founded to promote local and regional non-motorized trails systems in and around Rico, RTA has held a number of events, including group rides and fundraisers; entered into volunteer trail work agreements with the U.S. Forest Service and conducted trail work days; purchased a new snowmobile and a groomer for grooming snow/fat bike trails; put up trail signs; completed its website, including a user-friendly trail map; liaised with a range of entities like the Telluride Mountain Club, the Forest Service, the Telluride Foundation, the Town of Mountain Village and others; surveyed local trail users; gotten involved with a Forest Service travel management plan; and secured financial support through grants and donations, as well as from a variety of local and regional businesses.

“I have never seen anything take traction like this before – ever – in Rico, and I’ve lived here since ’97. It’s exciting,” RTA Board Facilitator Nicole Pieterse.

Added local trail user and RTA member John Scarborough, “I’m thoroughly impressed by the progress and goals that RTA has accomplished in such a short period of time. As an avid mountain biker and 15-year Rico resident, I’m stoked that advocates of hiking and biking are joining together with the USFS to create and maintain local trails.”

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More information on the Recreation Access and Infrastructure Improvement Project Proposed Action is available at www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=62582 Please submit your comments no later than December 30, 2022, online at cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=62582ATTENTION MOUNTAIN BIKERS – COMMENTS ON BOGGY NEEDED BY 12/30/2022Please submit comments supporting the proposed action for the Boggy Draw non-motorized trail reroutes and the Town Trail connection. SWCCA worked closely with the SJNF to mitigate trail impacts that would result from implementation of the approved Salter logging project. Multiple sections of the Boggy Draw trail system are located on historic logging routes that will be reopened and used by logging equipment. This would cause trail access closures and destroy the singletrack trail. The reroutes were carefully chosen to avoid logging operations, meet forest service requirements and where possible, create a more enjoyable route than the original. Please add a request to your comments that the proposed reroutes be constructed as soon as possible and prior to the start of any Boggy logging project.The proposed town trail section is a critical connection linking Dolores to the Boggy Draw trail system. The existing trail starting at 14th street now ends at Road W then requires road travel on Road W or Road 31. If approved the town trail would continue paralleling Road 31 in the county ROW .4 miles, then onto the proposed town trail connection to Bean Canyon trail.SWCCA will be constructing these reroutes and relying on the continued volunteer efforts from the mountain bike community. Please include your commitment to help SWCCA in your comments.The Project Draft EA also addresses trailheads, infrastructure and some motorized trail width modifications. Unique comments are evaluated differently so please consider adding a personal experience to support your comments. For example: “Please consider keeping the parking areas as natural as possible by leaving all trees and some shrubbery clusters to avoid a large rectangle box-store parking area.”More information on the Recreation Access and Infrastructure Improvement Project Proposed Action is available at www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=62582 Please submit your comments no later than December 30, 2022, online at cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=62582 Happy Trails! SWCCA ... See MoreSee Less

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