The Minturn Bike Park began its first full season of operation on Friday, marking a new era of availability for Eagle County dirt jumpers. The park, which was completed and opened to the public in September, is the first in the county to offer large features in a slopestyle-course like offering. Local skier Gavin Goike
We are excited to announce our new Volunteer & Membership Program! VVMTA and HTC memberships will no longer be run through IMBA. IMBA has been managing our membership platform and taking a $15 fee per transaction. While that money does go towards supporting trails, it is on a national level. Now, that $15 will
Read the Full Annual Report Here We are pleased to bring you our 2019-2020 Annual Report. You can read the full report here or click on an image below. Thank you for your continued support which truly allows us to further our mission of improving our trails and public lands in Eagle County! Deer Trails
Trails & Programs Manager – Full-time Year Round Position The Vail Valley Mountain Trails Alliance (VVMTA) is excited to offer a full-time, year round Trails & Programs Manager (TPM) position. The TPM will focus on managing the Trail Conservation Crew (TCC), managing/recruiting/retaining volunteers, managing VVMTA’s programs, and balancing office work with physical trail and field
Local wildlife enthusiasts who want to help wintering wildlife in the Eagle Valley are encouraged participate in a virtual information and training session about becoming a Wildlife Trail Ambassador. The session will be held Dec. 9 from 6 to 7 p.m. The Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District since 2017 has partnered with the Vail Valley Mountain
Building Trails to a Healthier Community… Was our motto in 2020. Trails were more important than ever. They provide a much needed escape and improve our physical and mental health. As always we encourage you to get outside, exercise, and enjoy nature. But we did see a huge growth in new trail users in 2020
Local wildlife enthusiasts who want to help wintering wildlife in the Eagle Valley are encouraged participate in a virtual information and training session about becoming a Wildlife Trail Ambassador. The session will be held Dec. 9 from 6 to 7 p.m. The Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District since 2017 has partnered with the Vail Valley Mountain
We are very excited to announce that after much coordination, collaboration, and planning the re-build of the trails impacted by Holy Cross Energy’s maintenance project is finally beginning. You can read about the background of this project from our post back in May. Over the summer, the VVMTA has had numerous site visits and meetings
Berlaimont Estates Final Environmental Impact Statement & Draft Decision Memo The VVMTA is against the approved plan for the developers to build a paved road with massive retaining walls in order to build 19 luxury residential homes with year round access. The road will have lasting impacts on elk and deer populations and critical habitat.
Four years of planning and hard work was realized in Minturn on Friday when dozens of locals celebrated the opening of the Minturn Bike Park. With mountains looming large in the background, and the park’s enormous jumps also towering above the crowd, a large group of stakeholders spaced themselves out around the pump track and
West Avon Preserve Update: What is happening? Holy Cross Energy is pulling new overhead power lines to improve the system resiliency to accommodate increased electrical load carrying capacity. In order to do this, they must clear the old existing access road that crosses many of the trails in the WAP. This road was there well before
Dear Trail Supporter, Our community, local businesses, and nonprofits are all being hit hard financially during this pandemic. Stimulus checks and CARE Act funds are thankfully helping many of our businesses and bank accounts. We understand these are tough times and you may need to use this money for your basic needs. Many of us
During this unprecedented time of the coronavirus pandemic, we are all trying to find connections that make us happy such as Zoom meetings with friends and family, Netflix, and many home projects. One outlet that we are fortunate to have in beautiful Eagle County is access to trails and public lands. With ski resorts being closed
Fat biking is a great way to get out and pedal during the winter. It can definitely be challenging, sometimes cold & wet, and sometimes you might not have the best trail conditions. But the more you do it, the better you get at mitigating all of these and have one heck of a time
Money has poured in from all corners of the valley to support a new bike park in Minturn. Vail Valley residents, businesses and nonprofits have raised about $40,000 toward the effort in the past few weeks. “The support has been unbelievable,” said Ernest Saeger, executive director of the Vail Valley Mountain Trails Alliance, which is
Local trail advocates have built many miles of new singletrack in the last 10 years. Now they have a new vision: A bike park filled with trails, jumps, a pump track and a race course where riders of all abilities and families can gather — a new kind of recreational amenity for the upper valley.
Trail advocates had a simple idea — build a singletrack from Minturn to EagleVail, adding a key piece to the valley’s trail network. It ended up being not so simple. The Everkrisp Trail took 3,000 hours of work, with a mini-excavator leading the way and volunteers following with pick mattocks, Pulaski axes, McLeod rakes and
District Ranger, Eagle-Holy Cross White River National Forest, Aaron Mayville writes a very informative opinion article in the Vail Daily regarding the opening of the Everkrisp Trail and his take on the Berlaimont Estates Project seen through the Forest Service’s eyes. https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/mayville-lets-talk-about-berlaimont/
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