Learning to Care for the Land They Grew Up On In 2025, fourteen local high school students representing nearly every high school in Eagle County joined the inaugural class of the Eagle County Youth Corps. Over two weeks, they learned trail work, teamwork, and stewardship on the same trails they grew up hiking. For participants,
In 2016, community leader Lee Rimel got a phone call that changed Eagle County’s trails forever. A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) employee tipped him off quietly. The budget had been cut, and without funding for a summer ranger, 26 trained trail workers would have no supervision and no coordinated trail work that season. Rimel called
Love your local trails? Turn that love into action by joining VVMTA’s Adopt a Trail program! We’re looking for teams to help care for and steward Eagle County’s incredible trail system. What is Adopt a Trail? Launched in 2016, the Adopt a Trail (AAT) program is a community-driven stewardship initiative where local groups adopt a
The VVMBA will be conducting a lottery/draft for all the interested trail adopters on Tuesday June 21st at the Dusty Boot in Beaver Creek at 6pm. All trails will be adopted to those people present at this event. If you are interested in adopting a trail for your group or organization, make sure to have at least
EAGLE COUNTY — A reduced budget and limited personnel makes 2.3 million acres of White River National Forest a challenge for the U.S. Forest Service rangers to maintain. After watching this national trend for the past couple of years and seeing how other areas across the country attempt to cope with it, the Vail Valley
Here is our ‘annual report’ on work in 2015. We had huge year for trails and for VVMBA in 2015 and want to take a moment to reflect on all that you helped accomplishment by showing up to dig or by contributing financial and moral support. You also supported us by getting out there and riding
On August 23rd and 24th while most of you were taking advantage of another two days of perfect summer temperatures to hit the trail, river, or rock, a few of the Vail Valley Mountain Bike Association Board members and some of our most dedicated Trail Crew members were busy putting in time to make our remaining
West Avon Preserve The Vail Daily recently published a great article on the West Avon Preserve opening. To get the full update, follow the bottom link. When the West Avon Preserve reopens on Wednesday, a new trail called Wild West Ridge will open with it. The 2.18-mile path was machine constructed by Momentum Trail Concepts
Join the VVMBA for our season kick-off party, Tuesday, April 7th at 6pm at the Miller Ranch Community Center! Come learn about all of our Valley trail projects in progress and find out how you can become a volunteer for us. Volunteers are the heart of our organization – we couldn’t do what we do
270 volunteers showed up from Vail Resort’s volunteer day to help make the future Avon Saddleridge trail become a reality. We usually get about 200 feet of trail done on any given Wednesday night. Today, with the amount of groups out there, we had the potential to touch about 4,000 feet of the 6,700 total
