A group of Tucson volunteers hope to help the Forest Service implement a comprehensive plan to manage, re-purpose and possibly extend a 250-mile trail system.
Cindy Coffer Chojnacky Special to the Arizona Daily Star A group of volunteers is creating a nonprofit to recruit, coordinate and possibly help fund trail restoration efforts in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson.
People are also reading… The 2003 Aspen Fire impacted the trail following the rugged ridgeline from Pima Canyon to Mount Lemmon as well as trails on the mountain. The Bighorn Fire, which burned almost 120,000 acres in the summer of 2020, damaged more than 200 miles of trails which were temporarily closed by the Forest Service.
He hopes to design a “Friends” portal like one used by the Arizona Trail Association where people can sign up for given trail projects. Thus far, the group has a five-member board of directors — all who work on trails to aid the underfunded and understaffed Santa Catalina Ranger District, which administers lands in the Catalinas. They are writing bylaws and articles of incorporation, Ingram said.
The Forest Service is also evaluating specific needs like trailhead parking on the Mount Lemmon highway, connections between trails and options for more beginner trails — for mountain bikers and hikers — on top of Mount Lemmon or other flatter spots. Most of the Catalinas are very steep.
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