2025 EVENTS
RFOV relies on volunteer crew leaders to make a busy project season successful. Have you ever wanted to help lead other volunteers in trail, restoration, and fire mitigation projects? The only experience required is love for the work we do and a desire to support RFOV projects!
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.
Help restore this important town park and riparian area for humans and wildlife to enjoy! We'll build on work that volunteers like you have done over the past four years by planting native trees and plants, battling the establishment of invasive plants, and maintaining trails throughout the preserve.
Structured youth activities are available for parents who would like to attend with children 4-8.
Come out to help provide needed improvements to this hidden-gem micro park on the banks of the Roaring Fork River in the Town of Basalt! Volunteers will help to level the park's seating area, trim back vegetation, plant trees, complete trail improvements and install solar-powered lights.
RFOV is turning 30 in 2025! To celebrate, we are returning to trails and open spaces where our volunteers and staff have made a tangible, lasting impact over the last 3 decades! Up first, we celebrate our history at the Red Hill Trail Network! Join us for an evening of trailwork and restoration projects on Carbondale's backyard hiking destination.
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 closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, stabilizing degrading slopes, and trimming back vegetation.
Tired of the never ending chores of watering and mowing your lawn? Do you want to learn how to beautify your home and build habitat for crucial pollinators? Join RFOV for our pollinator garden installation training to learn how to build, plant and maintain a pollinator garden and learn about the amazing local pollinators of our Rocky Mountain region! Final Time and Location to be announced soon!
RFOV is turning 30 in 2025! To celebrate, we are returning to trails and open spaces where our volunteers and staff have made a tangible, lasting impact over the last 3 decades! At our second 30th anniversary project, we celebrate our history in the creation and multi-decadal stewardship of Maroon Creek Wetlands! Join us for a day of restoration projects in this beautiful wetlands in the heart of Aspen!
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 closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, stabilizing degrading slopes, and trimming back vegetation.
After four 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. Join us this National Trails Day and get outside!
Structured youth activities are available for parents who would like to attend with children 4-8.
Join for one or both days of a weekend campout in Marble full of stewardship projects, learning opportunities, and plenty of time to just hang out. We'll work on trail and restoration projects at the in-town Marble Mill Site, the Marble Wetlands, and a nearby US Forest Service Trail TBD.
Camping in town is available on Friday and Saturday nights with pre-registration and a $50 refundable deposit, and breakfast and dinner are included.
Red Hill sees over 75,000 users every year! Due to this extensive use, this amazing trail network needs consistent trail maintenance and habitat restoration. In 2025 RFOV is providing 3 drop-in opportunities for volunteers to help with these efforts. Come join us on June 26th, September 25th and October 16th for evenings of stewardship and a Happy Hour at Mountain Heart Brewing! All volunteers who come out will receive one coupon for RFOV's 30th anniversary beer, a hoppy-pilsner called Hop-Mattock! Cheers!
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. This is an overnight project with breakfast and dinners provided by RFOV, bring your camping gear! Advanced registration required with a refundable $75 deposit.
Do you want to learn more about the skills that make local trail projects a success? Join us for an evening of learning about and discussing some of the basic trail work concepts and skills, including trail planning, tread maintenance, erosion control, and corridor maintenance.
Recently acquired by Pitkin County Open Space and Trails in 2024, 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 for the second year in a row.
Do you ever wonder how or why rock structures are installed on your favorite trails? Take the next step up from basic trail work skills and learn more about the rock structures that RFOV builds to improve the sustainability of local trails!
Do you love pulling barbed wire in beautiful places? Come join RFOV to help remove over a mile of barbed wire fencing in and around the Redstone Boulders Open Space! These efforts will help to beautify this beloved climbing area and prevent wildlife entrapment in dilapidated barbed wire fencing!
RFOV is turning 30 in 2025! To celebrate, we are returning to trails and open spaces where our volunteers and staff have made a tangible, lasting impact over the last 3 decades! For our third 30th anniversary project, we celebrate our history as the local volunteer arm of the White River National Forest and the Maroon-Snowmass Wilderness! Join us for a day of trail maintenance and stewardship under the iconic Maroon Bells!
There's a reason that the Four Pass Loop is one of Colorado's most visited backpacking routes. We'll access this beautiful Loop through a trailhead TBD and spend four days caring for a segment of this well-loved trail system along with our professional trail crew. RFOV will provide breakfasts and dinners, and if there's any personal backpacking gear items you don't have, we can work with you to find the gear needed. Space is limited and a $75 deposit (refunded upon completion) is required for all participants!
In 2024, the US Forest Service installed a bridge at the Hell-Roaring Creek crossing along the Avalanche Creek Trail! With the bridge installed, numerous reclamation and trail-maintenance projects along these beautiful trails have opened-up and we need your help!! Come join RFOV for a weekend of car camping, delicious dinners and breakfasts provided by RFOV, and impactful trail work alongside RFOV's professional Trail Crew! Space is limited and a $75 deposit (refunded upon completion) is required for all participants!
The CMC Spring Valley campus integrates recreation, restoration and education. Come help us care for their publicly accessible natural areas by spending a day removing invasive thistles. After a warm day in the sun, we'll end the day with cold, refreshing lemonade made from the thistles we remove.
RFOV formally invites you to come learn from several vegetation experts in our Invasive Species Identification and Management Training! Participants will learn how to identify common noxious weeds and invasive plants in our area, and how and when to best remove them so that they don’t come back! This training will include a classroom session on September 3rd and a field session on September 4th.
RFOV is joining Wilderness Workshop for their Latino Conservation Week! Come and enjoy the outdoors while helping the City of Glenwood Springs with a project TBD. Open to all with guaranteed translation services provided.
Tools and transportation to and from Two Rivers Park will be provided along with a celebratory meal after the work day. This project will be taking place on the Saturday prior to the Latino Conservation Week Celebration on Sunday at Two Rivers Park.
Filoha Meadows is home to the stream orchid, but these rare plants are being threatened by invasive Canada thistle and Oxeye Daisy. You can take this opportunity to see an open space otherwise closed to the public, help us control an invasive species, and protect a beautiful rare orchid, AND remove barbed wire fencing.
Like many of the trails within the Glenwood Canyon, the Grizzly Creek trail was heavily damaged by the Grizzly Creek wildfire in 2020 and the subsequent flooding during the summer of 2021. For the first time since 2021, RFOV volunteers will return to the Grizzly Creek Trail to start a new chapter in our long history of stewardship on this unique canyon route. Volunteers will work alongside RFOV's professional trail crew to complete various trail maintenance tasks.
Red Hill sees over 75,000 users every year! Due to this extensive use, this amazing trail network needs consistent trail maintenance and habitat restoration. In 2025 RFOV is providing 3 drop-in opportunities for volunteers to help with these efforts. Come join us on June 26th, September 25th and October 16th for evenings of stewardship and a Happy Hour at Mountain Heart Brewing! All volunteers who come out will receive one coupon for RFOV's 30th anniversary beer, a hoppy-pilsner called Hop-Mattock! Cheers!
One of the most visited tourist destinations in the state of Colorado, Hanging Lake Trail was heavily damaged by the Grizzly Creek wildfire in 2020 and subsequent flooding during the summer of 2021. For the first time since 2021, RFOV Volunteers have the opportunity to continue the long term stewardship of the Hanging Lake Trail. Projects will include different trail maintenance and restoration activities.
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 for parents who would like to attend with children 4-8 years old.
RFOV is turning 30 in 2025! To celebrate, we are returning to trails and open spaces where our volunteers and staff have made a tangible, lasting impact over the last 3 decades! For our final 30th anniversary project, we return to Rifle Falls, where we worked in our second season in 1996! Join us for a day of trailwork and restoration beneath some of Colorado's most stunning waterfalls!
Red Hill sees over 75,000 users every year! Due to this extensive use, this amazing trail network needs consistent trail maintenance and habitat restoration. In 2025 RFOV is providing 3 drop-in opportunities for volunteers to help with these efforts. Come join us on June 26th, September 25th and October 16th for evenings of stewardship and a Happy Hour at Mountain Heart Brewing! All volunteers who come out will receive one coupon for RFOV's 30th anniversary beer, a hoppy-pilsner called Hop-Mattock! Cheers!
Stay Tuned. Our full 2025 project season calendar will be announced March 18, 2025.
Members can pre-register for projects March 18-31. Registration opens to the general public April 1.
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.
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.
Situated at 11,100 feet, Betty Bear Hut is one of the Jewels of the 10th Mountain Division Huts. In 2021, a major wind event caused significant tree windthrow in the vicinity of the hut and severely increased the wildfire risk to the structure and surrounding forest. Come spend a summer weekend at the Betty Bear Hut and work to mitigate this increased threat. Space is limited.
Come help the Town of Carbondale and RFOV staff remove a large amount of invasive species on the Red Hill Trails Network!
RFOV is offering a basic First Aid & CPR course to the public! Michael Hutton, one of RFOV’s original founders, will be teaching this course at the Third Street Center in Carbondale.
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.
RFOV will access the backside of the Four Pass Loop through the Lead King Basin and spend four days caring for a segment of this well-loved trail system along with our professional trail crew. RFOV will provide breakfasts and dinners, and if there are any personal backpacking gear items you don't have, we can work with you to find the gear needed. Space is limited.
Come help the Town of Carbondale and RFOV staff remove a large amount of invasive species on the Red Hill Trails Network!
Did you know that over 100,000 people visit the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness every year? You can help care for a well-loved slice of this Wilderness Area on our overnight backpacking project on the Cathedral Lake and Electric Pass Trails. RFOV will provide breakfasts and dinners and can work with you to find needed gear. Space is limited.
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.
Join us for one or both days of a weekend campout in Marble full of stewardship projects, learning opportunities, and plenty of time to just hang out. We'll work on trail and restoration projects at the in-town Marble Mill Site, the Marble Wetlands, and a nearby US Forest Service Trail.
Special post-project and pre-dinner self-guided activities will be available. Camping in town is available on Friday and Saturday nights with pre-registration, and breakfast and dinner are included.
Come join RFOV and the Eagle River Coalition for a weekend overnight to create Zeedyk rock structures in the Bohr Flats wetland area near Bond, CO. RFOV will provide breakfasts and dinners and can work with you to find needed gear.
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
The Aspen Chamber Resort Association (ACRA) is donating up to $50,000 to Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers for signatures to the Aspen Pledge. Please visit here and take the Pledge
