Colorado will spend $2.4 million to restore trails on 14ers, upgrade other outdoor sites 

State leaders on Wednesday announced $2.4 million in grants to restore trails on 12 of Colorado’s 14ers and invest in work at other outdoor sites. 

The Non-Motorized Trail Grant Program, overseen by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, is funded through Great Outdoors Colorado — a state agency that invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds into outdoor initiatives — and the Federal Recreational Trails Program. 

A quarter of a million dollars will go to the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative to reconstruct a dozen trails that summit many of the state’s 14ers. The peaks receiving trail work are: 

• Mt. Bierstadt 
• Mt. Blue Sky
• Quandary Peak
• Mt. Democrat
• Mt. Princeton
• Mt. Massive
• Capitol Peak
• Mt. Columbia
• San Luis Peak
• Redcloud Peak
• Wetterhorn Peak
• Mt. Sneffels

Grants are also going to several other volunteer groups and local governments to support upgrades and restoration work across the state, including several projects in the High Country. 

Headwaters Trails Alliance in Grand County, for example, received $89,040 to fund a four-to-six-person trail crew to maintain 450 miles of trail in the county. 

Routt County Riders was awarded $55,985 to fund two additional positions to help the U.S. Forest Service’s Hahn’s Peak/Bear’s Ears non-motorized trail crew conduct maintenance of almost 400 miles of trail across the region.

Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers also gained $148,566 to support two years of trail maintenance in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, including work on part of the Avalanche Creek Trail, where a crossing has not been accessible for years due to a bridge washing out.