Description
Start Date-End Date: 06/08/2013-06/09/2013
Land Manager Office: CPW - Lory State Park
Land Manager Contact: Cameron Landis
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Summary: Help restore the Overlook Trail at scenic Lory State Park near Fort Collins.
Description:
STEWARDSHIP SITE
Close to Ft. Collins, Lory State Park offers beautiful foothills scenery and opportunities for mountain biking, hiking, horseback riding, rock climbing, and more. The 1.2-mile Overlook Trail is a hiking only trail that affords spectacular views of Lory State Park's valley areas and sandstone hogbacks, Horsetooth Reservoir, and the prairies to the east.
VOLUNTEER PROJECT - WHAT & WHY
Help maintain the Overlook Trail by carrying out trail restoration including general trail maintenance, installing rock steps, mono and multi-tiered retaining walls, rolling grade dips, and erosion control structures. We will work with natural materials in the area for long-term sustainability. The hike to the work site will be less than a mile each day.
PARTNERS
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPAW)
Colorado State Parks -- Lory State Park
OTHER FUN STUFF
VOC 30th Anniversary Project
Very basic camping facilities will be available with potable water on site. No meals will be provided. Feel free to bring your mountain bikes and kayaks so that you can take advantage of being in scenic Lory State Park after you finish volunteer work!
Latitude/Longitude: 40.62649917602539, -105.26100158691406
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Moderate, Difficult
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 25
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 42
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 41
Total Unique Volunteers: 32
Total Volunteer Hours: 305
Staff Hours: 3
Stipend Hours: 0
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Project went really well, in my opinion, and appeared to be very enthusiastically received by all volunteers. No injuries that I was made aware of, and the agency reps were awestruck as usual! - Mick Syzek (Program Team)
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VOC's very first project back in 1984 was at Lory State Park. Since then, VOC volunteers have completed critical stewardship work in half of Colorado's 44 State Parks, building sustainable trails, restoring plant and wildlife habitats, building viewing platforms, eradicating invasive weeds, and much, much more.
27 volunteers participated on this VOC 30th anniversary project, and worked together to restore the Overlook Trail at scenic Lory State Park on June 8 and 9. Volunteers worked hard to build a rock retaining wall, rock steps, restore firebreak scars from the Galena Court Fire that broke out earlier this year. Volunteers also helped with drainage and corridor maintenance on the existing trail. Click here to learn more about VOC volunteer opportunities: www.voc.org/projects
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