Looking to the Future

Colorado has approximately 30,000 square miles of public land, including hundreds of county and city parks and open space. That’s enough for us to share, right? Maybe, but our use of that land isn’t spread out evenly.

Some trails are as crowded as a shopping mall corridor, and the numbers keep growing. What’s being done? What does the future hold? I asked several area trail advocates and trail managers. Read their thoughts at Stories from the Front Range.

And for the record, Colorado has:

• Two national historic sites
• Four national parks
• Five national monuments
• Seven national wildlife refuges
• 11 national forests
• 41 wilderness areas
• 42 state parks
• 150 miles of non-motorized system trails on Pikes Peak
• 230 state wildlife areas
• 8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management land

And there’s this:

• 50,000 people walk on Barr Trail each year
• 500,000 people set foot on a Colorado fourteener each year

– Deb Acord

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