SFCT Trail Events in 2017

Ten students and two teachers from Capital High School's "Outdoors Club" met with the Trail Volunteer Coordinator on Tierra Contenta's "Arroyo de las Chamisas Urban Trail" to talk about trails and tools and to do some basic trail maintenance work on an adjoining...

For October trail work days, we shifted gears to La Tierra Trails, starting on Oct. 14 with some problem sections between junctions 33, 35 and 37 and north of junction 36.  We could not solve ALL the problems, but we did find some spots where we could either move the...

                  Four volunteers met with the Trail Volunteer Coordinator to visit Dale Ball Trails, Central section, off of Cerros Colorados Rd., one last time before we switch the focus to La Tierra Trails for a while. ...

A whole new crop of Camino Real Academy fourth-graders started up on field trips to city trails at the end of September, 2015.  The first class was scheduled to visit Dale Ball Trails' South Section but we re-located to La Tierra Trails due to the smoke from a...

Twenty-seven cyclists participated in the first-ever Cross Town Community Cruise, spanning nearly ten miles from the Railyard Park to the City's new SWAN Park, all downhill.  The City of Santa Fe provided the food and fun at the park.       It was a...

On Sept. 3, three volunteers joined the Trails Program Manager to work on eroded trail sections in the central section of Dale Ball Trails.  The crew de-bermed and put in a few nicks and bumps to force water off of gullied parts of the trail between junctions 18 and...

Seven volunteers joined the Trail Volunteer Coordinator at La Tierra Trails' Frijoles Trailhead to deal with erosion issues that had been identified between junctions 26 and 29 and north of junctions 9 and 10.  Work at the latter location included a short re-route to...

Five volunteers worked with the City Trail Volunteer Coordinator on Aug. 5 to address erosion issues in the Central Section of Dale Ball Trails, near the Cerros Colorados Rd. crossing, and to move tools and other trail work materials shared by SFCT, the Trails...

Five volunteers and the Trails Program Manager met at Cerro Gordo Trailhead to work on erosion issues on the climb to Junction 30 above the "green gate."  This section of City trail climbs up toward Picacho Peak on land being preserved by The Nature Conservancy.  The...

At the request of the City's tourism department, TOURISM Santa Fe, SFCT's Trails Program Manager organized and programmed volunteers to hike area trails with the "Google Trekker" apparatus: a 50-lb. bundle of fifteen cameras, computer hardware, battery, and backpack...