Come help us clean and organize all the tools from the 2024 season!

Join us as experts from Coalitions & Collaboratives share relevant and engaging information about wildfire and fire mitigation. This is a classroom-based program that will connect you with applicable resources.

Beavers are important engineers of watershed health in Colorado. Once decimated, their population is now rebounding and they need your help! Through our Butler Creek BDA project, we will improve the vitality of the riparian area and increase the habitat potential for beavers and important wetland species. 

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Los castores son importantes ingenieros de la salud de las cuencas hidrográficas de Colorado. Su población, una vez destruida, se está recuperando y necesitan su ayuda. A través de nuestro proyecto Butler Creek BDA, mejoraremos la vitalidad de la zona ribereña y aumentaremos el potencial de hábitat para los castores e importantes especies de humedales cerca de Rifle, CO.

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Before it was a paradise for trail users, and before it was a shopping district, Wulfsohn Mountain Park was threatened by 2002's Coal Seam Fire. To help reduce the risk of another large wildfire in Glenwood Springs, join with fire experts to learn about wildfire behavior and ecology while continuing the years-long effort to mitigate wildfire risk. 

After three years of continuous restoration efforts, we're going back to Coal Basin Ranch to restore more natural areas at the site that was once the base for a large-scale coal mining operation. Come learn about this beautiful area while healing degraded soils and plant communities.

Coffman Ranch features 141 acres of productive ranch land, native wildlife habitat, and more than a century of deep agricultural roots. Join us to help create a welcoming place for our community and build deep connections with land, wildlife, and water. 

Structured youth activities are available.

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

Beavers are important engineers of watershed health in Colorado. Once decimated, their population is now rebounding and they need your help! Through our Butler Creek BDA project, we will improve the vitality of the riparian area and increase the habitat potential for beavers and important wetland species. 

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Los castores son importantes ingenieros de la salud de las cuencas hidrográficas de Colorado. Su población, una vez destruida, se está recuperando y necesitan su ayuda. A través de nuestro proyecto Butler Creek BDA, mejoraremos la vitalidad de la zona ribereña y aumentaremos el potencial de hábitat para los castores e importantes especies de humedales cerca de Rifle, CO.

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RFOV is joining Wilderness Workshop on September 15 for the ¡Celebremos al Aire Libre! event in honor of Latino Conservation Week! Come and enjoy the outdoors while helping the City of Glenwood Springs with a riverside restoration access project on the banks of the Colorado River. Open to all with guaranteed translation services provided.

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¡RFOV se une a Wilderness Workshop el 15 de septiembre para el evento ¡Celebremos al Aire Libre! en honor a la Semana Latina de la Conservación! Venga y disfrute del aire libre mientras ayuda a la ciudad de Glenwood Springs con un proyecto de acceso a la restauración ribereña en las orillas del río Colorado. Abierto a todos con servicios de interpretación garantizados.

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In continuation of the hard work on this trail by RFOV volunteers and Pitkin County Open Space and Trails staff throughout the season, we will be providing finishing work and maintenance for sustainability on this beloved horse and hiking trail. 

Come help the Town of Carbondale and RFOV staff remove a large amount of invasive species on the Red Hill Trails Network!

Recently acquired by Pitkin County Open Space and Trails, Snowmass Falls Ranch is a 650-acre parcel that serves as a gateway to the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. The area has over a century of ranching history as well as valuable wildlife habitat and stunning scenery. In its transition to public land, a key objective is the removal of unnecessary barbed wire within the property. Come help us restore this beautiful, wilderness-adjacent property to benefit wildlife movement.

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Recientemente adquirido por Open Space and Trails del condado de Pitkin, el rancho Snowmass Falls es una parcela de 650 acres que sirve de puerta de entrada a la naturaleza de Maroon Bells-Snowmass. La zona tiene más de un siglo de historia ganadera, así como un valioso hábitat de vida salvaje y un paisaje impresionante. En su transición a terreno público, un objetivo clave es la eliminación del innecesario alambre de púas dentro de la propiedad. Ayúdenos a restaurar esta hermosa propiedad adyacente a un espacio natural en beneficio de fauna salvaje.

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In 2023, a small sinkhole progressed into a large landslide and cut a swath across the popular Nature Trail in Snowmass Village. The town has since built a bridge to span the damaged area of the trail but needs your help to promote the revegetation of the area in and around the bridge and improve the sustainability of this trail along its length. Come join us for one or both evenings.

Pitkin County Open Space and Trails recently adopted a management plan to guide the future of the Coke Ovens Open Space. While some of this property continues to support horses and Western heritage activities, many areas contain old and unnecessary fencing. Join us near the small town of Redstone to help improve wildlife mobility and access to Coal Creek by removing barbed wire from this beautiful property.

In 2023, a small sinkhole progressed into a large landslide and cut a swath across the popular Nature Trail in Snowmass Village. The town has since built a bridge to span the damaged area of the trail but needs your help to promote the revegetation of the area in and around the bridge and improve the sustainability of this trail along its length. Come join us for one or both evenings.

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

*NOTE: the date in RFOV’s project season announcement of August 8 is wrong. This project is on Tuesday, August 6 from 4-8 pm.

Come help the Town of Carbondale and RFOV staff remove a large amount of invasive species on the Red Hill Trails Network!

RFOV's community projects depend on Project Ambassadors to sign in and orient volunteers, talk to the community about the project and other RFOV work during the volunteer day, and support general project logistics. Please come learn about the Project Ambassador program and join us in this accessible, low-impact volunteer opportunity.

Home to settlers, pioneers, war heroes, and iconic Wild-West characters, such as Doc Holliday, this easily accessible cemetery offers residents and visitors a taste of history among beautiful vistas along the trail. RFOV volunteers will continue the tradition of stewarding this historical landmark through the removal of old fencing, closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, and stabilizing degrading slopes.

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

This beautiful, historic, and well-trafficked area right outside of downtown Aspen has numerous trails that are beloved by hikers and mountain bikers alike. This trail system is in need of regular seasonal maintenance work and RFOV is returning to these trails to help prepare them for a busy summer season. Which of these trails is your favorite? Come work on it with RFOV!

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

Do you want to learn more about the skills that make local restoration projects a success? Join us for an evening of learning about and discussing some of the basic restoration skills, including seeding, planting, and simple erosion control.

Home to settlers, pioneers, war heroes, and iconic Wild-West characters, such as Doc Holliday, this easily accessible cemetery offers residents and visitors a taste of history among beautiful vistas along the trail. RFOV volunteers will continue the tradition of stewarding this historical landmark through the removal of old fencing, closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, and stabilizing degrading slopes.

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

Originally settled and worked by the Glassier family in the early 1900s, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) purchased Rock Bottom Ranch in 1999. RFOV will be working along a segment of their 113-acre property to improve two different public trails that connect to the Rio Grande Trail/Bike Path.

Structured youth activities available!

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

Home to settlers, pioneers, war heroes, and iconic Wild-West characters, such as Doc Holliday, this easily accessible cemetery offers residents and visitors a taste of history among beautiful vistas along the trail. RFOV volunteers will continue the tradition of stewarding this historical landmark through the removal of old fencing, closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, and stabilizing degrading slopes.

Sponsored by Roaring Fork Valley Destination Alliance

Join us Sunday, May 19th at 8:00 am for the Mt. Sopris run-off. A 10-mile and 25k both utilizing the iconic “Up & Over” single track trail in a point-to-point race taking runners from the start at Flying Dog Ranch on Prince Creek Road up and over and ending at Rock Bottom Ranch in Basalt, CO.

Dedicated in honor of Nancy Parker West, Nancy's Path is a public trail open to horses and hikers that is managed by Pitkin County Open Space and Trails and the Bureau of Land Management. Join us for an evening of volunteering to begin a season-long effort to repair and improve the sustainability of this historic trail.