More than 200 miles of trails on Colorado’s fourteeners and 3,100 miles along the Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada are on the U.S. Forest Service’s new high-priority maintenance list.
The trail systems dear to Colorado are among 15 designated under the National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act, co-sponsored by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and signed into law by President Obama in November 2016.
“People from all over the world travel to Colorado to hike fourteeners and explore some of the best trails in the country,” Bennet said in a statement. “We applaud the Forest Service for working with local stakeholders to select our state’s popular peaks as areas to increase trail maintenance. A renewed focus on maintenance will improve public safety and protect high-alpine resources – both critical to the future of these trails.”
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