Meeting location:

Please park and meet RMFI staff at the New Santa Fe Trailhead lot at Hwy 105 and Spruce Mountain Road, adjacent to Palmer Lake. Please use the link provided below to ensure you navigate to the correct trailhead location. 

New Santa Fe Trailhead (Palmer Lake)

Time:

8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Online registration will close Friday, June 6 at noon. If you are able, please register for this stewardship day online; however, we will provide paper copies of the registration form on-site. We do ask that all volunteers be available for the entire workday, if you need any other accommodations please contact us prior to registering.

Activity:.This project will focus on the new trail construction of the Corral Loop Trail. Project tasks may include decompacting hardened soils, moving materials such as rock and dirt, and other new trail construction tasks. Trail alignment and construction details are at the final discretion of RMFI staff and EL Paso County Parks. This is moderately strenuous work using tools in the outdoors. Be prepared for a rewarding day of trail work! If you have concerns about accessibility on this stewardship day, please reach out to us, or for your reference please use our Trail Terminology Guide to learn more about this activity.

For more information about what to bring for the stewardship day, visit our FAQ page.

Land Acknowledgment

This is a community stewardship day, which we acknowledge takes place on the traditional unceded territory of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Cheyenne, and Jicarilla Apache Nations*. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced occupation of their territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse indigenous people connected to this land on which our stewardship days take place.  

*If you would like to learn about the native territories that each of our projects are located on, please follow this link: https://www.rmfi.org/projects.