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Title: Colorado Front Range Trail


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Colorado Front Range Trail Corridor Plan
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Description The Colorado Front Range Trail
  • The Colorado Front Range Trail will link
    existing trails systems with new trail corridors
    to create a pathway between Colorados burgeoning
    population centers

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Initiation How this concept began
  • Colorado State Parks Board discussed the idea of
    a border to border trail and directed staff to
    initiate a planning process
  • Staff met with local community stakeholders to
    discuss this concept and to identify potential
    corridor routes
  • Planning team toured the proposed corridor in 2001
  • Support for the Trail was overwhelming

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Process Colorado Front Range Trail Process

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Vision, Principles, and Goals Vision
To link the Colorado front ranges diverse
communities and scenic landscapes with a
multi-use trail from New Mexico to Wyoming
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Vision, Principles, and Goals Principles
During the planning process two guiding
principles emerged
First Principle All trail routes comprising the
Colorado Front Range Trail must be determined and
approved by the local jurisdictions through which
they pass. All acquisition and trail development
decisions will be determined by the local
jurisdictions land use decision processes.
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Vision, Principles, and Goals Principles
During the planning process two guiding
principles emerged
Second Principle The Colorado Front Range Trail
should be funded through a variety of long-term
funding sources that build upon, rather than take
away from current trail funding sources.
Additional sources that can be dedicated to the
trails completion should be pursued.
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Vision, Principles, and Goals Goals
  • Form a spine trail corridor along Colorados
    front range that links communities, points of
    interest, and public lands
  • Create a safe, fun, attractive, continuous,
    interesting, diverse, and educational trail
  • Utilize existing and approved
  • proposed trails as the basis for
  • the corridor

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Vision, Principles, and Goals Goals
  • Create a fairly direct north - south route
  • Link to other trails, especially major east -
    west trails, along the corridor
  • Have a separated trail,
  • away from highways
  • and roads, when possible

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Vision, Principles, and Goals Goals
  • Incorporate cultural, historical and
    environmental themes which enhance educational
    opportunities
  • Identify and protect sensitive natural, cultural
    and scenic resources when planning and
    constructing the trail

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Vision, Principles, and Goals Goals
  • Create a trail corridor that enhances
    eco-heritage tourism along the front range
  • Incorporate alternatives and loops, so the trail
    can be used for a diverse range of trail uses
  • Involve youth from the diverse
  • mixture of corridor communities
  • in trail construction through
  • local youth corps

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Colorado Front Range Trail Southern Area
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Images Southern Front Range
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Images Southern Front Range

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Colorado Front Range Trail Metro Area
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Images Metro Area

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Images Metro Area

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Colorado Front Range Trail North Area
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Images North Area

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Next Steps
  • Implementation Plan
  • Logo
  • Sign standards
  • Front Range Trail Grants
  • Private partners
  • Funding Strategies

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Plan is Available
  • Colorado State Park
  • Web Site http//parks.state.co.us/home
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