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Behind Every Great Trail

Read the column in the Vail Daily Here. When you step onto your favorite trail, climbing through an ...
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Trail Ambassadors Shine Bright: June 2025 Recap

Throughout June, our TAs logged countless hours greeting trail users at popular trailheads, singletrack junctions, and scenic overlooks. ...
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June Volunteer Power: Trail Impact Highlights

Our volunteers have been out in full force this summer, and June was no exception! Thanks to the ...
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Soul Dirt: Mid Season Greetings

Can you believe we’re already halfway through the season? Time flies when we’re out on the trails, moving ...
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Public Lands Bring Us Together

First published in the Vail Daily here: https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/vail-valley-mountain-trails-alliance-public-lands-bring-us-together/ As we welcome visitors to the Vail Valley this weekend ...
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Public Lands for Sale in Eagle County – Contact Our Senators Today!

Update 6/26 Thankfully, for now, our public lands are not going up for sale! However, there is still ...
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Trail Champions: Our May Volunteers

As the snow melted and trails reopened, our incredible volunteer crews jumped into action this spring to restore ...
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Respect in Action: Our 2025 Trail Ambassadors

Helping you enjoy the outdoors responsibly Returning VVMTA staff, Emily Carney and Melanie Morone, have been working for ...
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Access For All: Closing the Equity Gap in Outdoor Recreation

The transformative power of nature is no secret. Outdoor recreation has been linked to improved mental and physical ...
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Respect the Wild

June is here and the wildlife are on the move from lower elevations to the melting out upper ...
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Healthy Trails. Healthy People. Stronger Community.

Heatlthy Trails. Healthy People. Stronger Community. When was the last time you truly disconnected from your daily hustle, ...
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How Recreation Fuels My Conservation Ethic

How Recreation Fuels My Conservation Ethic Originally published in the Vail Daily here. The relationship between being a ...
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Eagle Phase #2 Trails Proposal

The Hardscrabble Trails Coalition (HTC), in partnership with the VVMTA is proposing 11 miles of reroutes and new ...
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2024 Annual Report

Read the Full Annual Report Here We are pleased to bring you our 2024 Annual Report.  You can ...
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Our public lands need us: A community call to action

I am fired up. Like many in our community, I am concerned and continually asking myself the same ...
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We Are Hiring – Join Our Team This Summer!

Do you want to spend your summer outside on our trails and get paid for it?  Then we ...
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Check out the most current trail conditions before heading out this Spring. We do our best to update trail conditions but we need your help to let our community know what you see out there.  Please provide any trail condition beta to the sources below:

All three of these are only successful with you, the trails community letting others know what you are seeing out there!

In partnership with the USFS and Eagle County Open Space, the VVMTA and Walking Mountains are excited to launch the Eagle County Youth Corps (ECYC).

This is more than just a summer job; it’s a chance for high school students ages 16 to 18 to make a lasting impact on the lands they love. ECYC crew members will be on the front lines of trail maintenance, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship projects across Eagle County. Along the way, they’ll gain hands-on experience, explore career pathways in outdoor recreation, environmental education, and natural resource management, and grow as confident leaders in the great outdoors.

It’s Spring and that means it’s also time to refresh your knowledge on seasonal trail closures to protect wildlife.  While many closures will be lifted on April 16th in Eagle and Avon, there are many that go into affect on April 15th through June 20th and July 1st.

Read up on the full list of seasonal trail closures here.  And if you haven’t yet, take the pledge, Respect the Wild.

Looking to join in on the fun and help out our trails?  Check out our calendar to see upcoming volunteer events.  Registration and details are located in the event on the calendar.  The VVMTA Volunteer Trail Crew meets every Wednesday night and the HTC Volunteer Trail Crew meets the first and third Tuesday of every month.  Stay tuned to our calendar, social media, and newsletter for updated information.

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