Join the Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) staff, trail adopters, volunteers, and other community partners on Saturday, July 27 at Motel SOCO from 2:00-5:00pm. There will be giveaways and door prizes from CDTC’s partners, as well as free appetizers and discounted drinks for volunteers.
This is a free event. We hope to see you there.
This event takes place the day after CDTC’s volunteer project in the San Juans near Archuleta Lake with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado. If you are interested in volunteering with CDTC or other partners in the area, please visit https://continentaldividetrail.org/volunteer/
The CDTC was founded in 2012 by volunteers and recreationists hoping to provide a unified voice for the Trail. Today, CDTC is a robust 501(c)3 organization that works hand-in-hand with the U.S. Forest Service and other federal land management agencies to build a strong community of supporters who want to see the CDT protected not just for today’s users, but for generations to come.
The Continental Divide Trail Coalition’s vision is to see that the 3,100-mile Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT) is a renowned and revered natural resource for people to connect with friends, family, and community draw inspiration, and create outstanding personal and interpersonal experiences.
We see the CDT as a world-class landscape that inspires pride, passion, respect, creativity, community, and perseverance, connecting landscapes, ecosystems, and communities
While we are extremely proud of our accomplishments to date, we realize that there is much more to be done to fulfill our vision for the future. We want to protect the Trail’s wealth of natural and scenic resources, build a sense of community, promote public land stewardship, inspire healthy lifestyles, and above all, encourage people to know, use, and care for the CDT.
CDTC staff and Board acknowledge the following, and asks all trail visitors to do the same: the lands on which the CDT traverses across its entire 3,100 miles are stolen lands. The traditional stewards of these lands are Indigenous people who have called these places home for millennia, and still call them home today. Many were persecuted or killed through genocide and forced removal from these homelands. In all of our work, we honor these people, past, present and future, as well as the many other Indigenous peoples who inhabited, held sacred, and stewarded the landscapes across which the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail traverses.