The Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC), the lead National Partner for management of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT) has launched a new Fundraising campaign through Indiegogo titled “The Next 32 Miles” to raise funds to construct a 32 mile non-motorized section of the CDT on the Rio Grande National Forest near Saguache, CO.
“The Next 32 Miles” launched on November 18, 2014 and raised over $10,000 in the first 48 hours of the effort. The Campaign will run through January 2, 2015 and can be found here.
This project would allow the CDTC and partners, including local Youth Corps programs and volunteers, to complete one of the last remaining sections of the CDT in Colorado. When complete, this 32 mile trail section, which co-aligns with the Colorado Trail, will be a highly desirable, primitive back-country hiking experience.
Unlike the PCT and the A.T., the CDT is incomplete, despite being created 36 years ago. The CDT is falling through the cracks, and is facing great difficulties in maintaining what so many have worked so hard to build and is threatened by ever shrinking federal budgets and resources. Because the Trail is unfinished, it is vulnerable to interests incompatible with the vision of the Trail as a remote back-country primitive experience.
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