2011-Red Rocks Trail Restoration

Start Date-End Date: 05/14/2011-05/14/2011 Land Manager Office: Land Manager Contact: Funding Partner: Programmatic Partner: Summary: Join VOC for a day at famous Red Rocks Park! Description: Red Rocks Park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. People are drawn to the world-recognized area by concerts, movies, hikes, and the iconic geographic features throughout the park. The abundance of visitors through the years has taken its toll on the natural environment. Visitors have created unsustainable trails by shortcutting from parking lots to the amphitheater and off-limits caves. These trails are unsafe due to their grade and disrupt soils which allow non-native plant species to establish themselves. Because of the lack of natural competitors in the area, these non-native plants out-compete native vegetation. Your hard work will help restore the park's natural habitat while ensuring that visitors to Red Rocks have safe and sustainable access to points of interest throughout the park. Volunteers will be doing phase II of the Trading Post Trail restoration. The Trading Post Trail links park visitor to the trading post and the pathways leading to the amphitheatre and surrounding parking areas. This trail will offer safe and sustainable routes to points of interest in the park while preserving sensitive ecological features in the area. There is no fee for this project. Lunch will be provided. Latitude/Longitude: 39.6535988, -105.1910996 Additional Information: Camping Available: Physical Difficulty: Moderate High Altitude Project: Desired Number of Volunteers: 100 Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 51 Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 9 Total Volunteer Days: 63 Total Unique Volunteers: 60 Total Volunteer Hours: 729 Staff Hours: 0 Stipend Hours: 0 Project Summary: Successes and Challenges: Lessons Learned: Special Notes: Stewardship Education: Key Concerns or Comments from Staff or Volunteers: Description of Accidents/Incidents: Description of Work Completed: Volunteers constructed timber and sandstone steps in areas that were previously too steep. Social trails were closed with felled trees and shrubs. Volunteers also built new buck and rail fence to block off the ability for visitors to access former social trails. On Saturday, May 14, about 100 volunteers gathered at Red Rocks Park to restore this iconic Colorado site''s natural habitat and ensure that park visitors have safe and sustainable access to interest points. Volunteers restored the popular Trading Post Trail, built fences, and removed soil-disrupting social trails, caused by the thousands of people who visit the park for its world-renowned concerts and spectacular geographic features. Thank you to Jose O