National Trails Day Information

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Gooch, Samantha - FS, CO
From:samantha.gooch@usda.gov
To:Gooch, Samantha - FS, CO
Mon, May 18 at 5:31 PM
Hi PPRD Volunteers and Partners!

IF YOU REGISTER YOUR EVENT FOR NATIONAL TRAILS DAY, PLEASE SEND ME PHOTOS AFTER THE EVENT !
Today I checked the NTD website and these 3 events on Pikes Peak Ranger District are registered:

1. CMTRA & TPA Joint Singletrack Workday June 6            Tad Hershey/Bill Alspach
2. UC Health Trailhead Outreach (Stay the Trail) June 6            Ryan Dull
3. MWTA & TPA Joint Singletrack Workday June 7            Cory Sutela/Bill Alspach

The USFS has a goal to have 250 trail work/clean-up events for National Trails Day! In 2025, National Trails Day reached over 31 million people online and across social media and more than 66,000 individuals participated in events across the country. It creates a positive impact nationwide!

Here's the link for volunteer groups/partners to listen to the NTD webinar recording if you want: https://usfs-public.box.com/s/6oxdl7ee9izlg1nwwp23nwe7kly8d749 If your group or organization is planning an event on USFS lands on/around June 6th, please register your event with NTD!

Registering your event takes a few minutes and as a National Trails Day (NTD) event you can:

• Helps us reach our goal
• Your event is promoted locally and nationally
• There may be NTD branded swag

Link to register your event: https://americanhiking.org/national-trails-day/host-information/

Contact American Hiking Society if you have trouble with the event portal (Tyler Ray/tray@americanhiking.org & Morgan Ellis/mellis@americanhiking.org)
Cheers!
Samantha

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Samantha Gooch
Recreation Planner​

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Forest Service​

Pike National Forest, Pikes Peak Ranger District​

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samantha.gooch@usda.gov​

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601 S. Weber St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903​

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Summary:

June 6 is National Trails Day.

The USFS has a goal of 250 trail work days/clean-ups registered on June 6.

If your club/group (motorized or non-motorized) is doing a work day/clean-up on public lands then please register it on the link provided.

 

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Focus on the Forest (Woodland Park) is doing a clean-up and cookout on Rampart and Mt Herman, on June 6. Volunteers are invited.

Focus On The Forest | Facebook

100% volunteer nonprofit that cleans up trash in OUR national forest.

www.facebook.com

The post says to fill out the volunteer form on their home page:

Contact US — Focus on the Forest

CONTACT US & event sign up

www.focusontheforest.org

For some reason, the website "event calendar" hasn't been updated, doesn't show this event, but I saw it on Instagram and then went to Facebook to be sure.