Border-to-Border Trail in Colorado
Committee and past Director of the Colorado Horse Council. “Most horse owners in Colorado
By DorinDa TrouTman, rmr STaff WriTer One-third of a multi-use, non- motorized (including equestrians) trail in Colorado, running north-south from the Wyoming border to the New Mexico border is complete. The Colorado Front Range Trail
(CFRT) has been in the works since 2003, and the plan was finalized in 2007. “Colorado Springs to north of Castle
Rock has been completed, aided by one big section of an old ‘rail trail’ that goes through the Air Force Academy,” says Julie Chaney, member of the State Trails
like myself live in cities and board their horses. We need places like this trail to ride near where we live. “It’s been easier to create the trail in high- population areas due to more people wanting to work for it. As we work on the low-population south end of the state and to the north, it will take more time.”
There are now 270 miles completed of what will be a 875-mile trail. The trail follows the Interstate-25 corridor — about a hundred yards to a mile away from the highway, depending on where the trail is — and uses existing trails and State Parks wherever possible. Where it travels
through municipalities like Denver that don’t allow horse traffic, there is an alternate route. For example, there is an East/West Trail plan for equestrians in order to ride around Denver.”
There are now 270 miles completed of what will be a 875-mile trail.
The main trail is not one straight shot, but has many offshoots made up of other existing and planned trails. For example, where the trail goes through Aurora, Colorado, the Cherry Creek Spillway Trail, Toll Gait Trail and the Cherry Creek Trail are all part of the CFRT. The CFRT is being implemented under the Colorado State Parks system, with support from the counties and municipalities that it goes through, plus federal agencies, non-profit organizations and tourist businesses. It links open space, state and municipal parks, historic points
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