Around 500 volunteers showed up Saturday to resurface the running trails in Washington Park as a part of Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado’s final major project of the season.
Half of the volunteers were community members and the other half were AmeriCorps NCCC members. The work crews put a new layer of “crusher fine,” a material made of crushed rocks, on the trails and created a few new pathways. There were other crews planting 25 new trees in the park.
The materials were funded by a donation from a community member to “beautify the park,” said Sue Anderson, director of programs at Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado.
“A part of this project is to celebrate a great season and to thank our volunteers,” Anderson said.
The organization led the original construction of the Washington Park trails in 1993 and refurbished the park again in 1999.
“We have some volunteers who were here the first, second, and now third time,” Anderson said.
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado was founded in 1984 as a trails club.
“We really have evolved over the years,” said Anderson. “People can come into our projects with no prior experience and we’ll train them.”
Kristen Leigh Painter: 303-954-1638 or kpainter@denverpost.com
