Description
Start Date-End Date: 08/25/2018-08/25/2018
Land Manager Office: City and County of Denver - Parks and Recreation
Land Manager Contact: Lawrence Luevano
Funding Partner: Great Outdoors Colorado Trust - GOCO
Programmatic Partner:
Summary: In partnership with Westwood Unidos and Denver Parks and Recreation, VOC is doing trail maintenance on the portion of the Weir Gulch Trail that runs through the Westwood community. The half-day project will include debris clean up, painting, and weeding some areas of the trail.
Description: In partnership with Westwood Unidos and Denver Parks and Recreation, VOC is doing trail maintenance on the portion of the Weir Gulch Trail that runs through the Westwood community. The half-day project will include debris clean up, painting, and weeding some areas of the trail and will conclude with a lunch, catered by Mujeres Emprendedoras. This project is a part of a larger effort to familiarize the community with the trail and expand the use of the walkway.
Latitude/Longitude: 39.706603, -105.047821
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 30
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 8
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 10
Total Volunteer Days: 18
Total Unique Volunteers: 18
Total Volunteer Hours: 54
Staff Hours: 8.5
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: Overall, this project went alright, with 27 participants, 12 of them children. We were able to paint posts and garbage cans and clean up trash along the length of the trail in between Alameda and Sheridan (0.8 miles). In the beginning, there were only 2 families, but about 45 minutes into the project, we had Gordon Alley, a pastor running for state senate, bring his family an some community members. There are still benches, posts, and cans to be painted and work to be done on the trail as a whole, but we made progress.
Successes and Challenges: Successes: Danielle and Miriam were very helpful in interacting with community members and there was a lot of family participation in this event. The food was delicious (thanks to Las Mujeres Emprendadoras) and it was great to see the community getting involved in maintaining this trail.
Challenges: We did not get the numbers we expected on this event. Although we had this date planned months in advance, there was another volunteer activity with Re:Vision, cleaning up La Casita, so we were competing for numbers. While we tried to use this event to discuss plans for the Weir Gulch Trail, not many community members were interested, nor had much to say.
Lessons Learned: When working with Denver Parks & Rec, be sure to bring the waivers they send to us, as they will most likely collect them at the end of the project.
Danielle suggests we go to a mountain park for the next project. That way, families can picnic, play in the water, and spend time outside of the city.
I think if we treated the event like an outing for the Family Nature Club (with a stewardship component), it would have more success. Then we could have Westwood be the main planners from within the community and we are the ones providing the stewardship component.
Special Notes: Sign in sheet (total: 11a and 16y - used 2 hours for volunteer hours):
Tania Maldonado (1a, 3y)
Claudette Lund (1a)
Belen Maes (1a, 3y)
Barbara Fisher (1a)
Gordon Alley (2a, 8y)
Fabiola Peres (1a, 1y)
David Horton (1a, 1y)
Danielle Short (1a) - WU
Miriam Alvarez (1a) - WU
Gordon Robertson (1a) - DPR
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