Central Colorado Mountain Riders
Who We Are
CCMR is an all-volunteer off-road motorcycle club focused on trail maintenance, advocating to create new trails, and to preserve existing trails.
MISSION - Central Colorado Mountain Riders (CCMR) - an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization - aims to preserve, maintain, and create motorized trail opportunities in the Central Colorado area through cooperation, education, etiquette, and stewardship.
What We Do
Maintain and Preserve Trails For Future Generations
Members volunteer their time and expertise to further CCMR's mission to preserve and maintain our motorized trails.
CCMR works with the Forest Service, BLM and local groups on projects that benefit the entire community of trail enthusiasts:
*Clearing overgrown brush and fallen trees.
• Repairing trail damage from floods and fires
• Trail improvements including reroutes
• Erosion control.
CCMR’s trail maintenance goals strive to improve the function, safety, and overall recreation experience for multi-use visitors and preserve the trails for future generations.
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Obtain Grants for Maintenance, New Trails & Reroutes
CCMR puts a great deal of effort into prioritizing needs and then planning, writing and briefing grant committees.
To prioritize needs, CCMR teams with land managers and the community to identify trail maintenance issues and necessary improvements.
If the work is beyond the scope of our volunteers, CCMR applies for grants from Colorado Parks & Wildlife - funded in part by the mandatory OHV registration sticker funds. We also research grant opportunities from OHV-related businesses and charities.
CCMR grants are designed to provide trail improvements for the pleasure and safety of all trail users.
Stewardship - CCMR Adopted Trails
CCMR adopted approximately 89 miles of singletrack trail segments in Chaffee, Fremont, and Saguache counties. These are all multi-use trails - so our work to maintain them benefits all trail users and helps ensure these trails will be available for future generations.
1. The motorized Continental Divide Trail (CDT) from Old Monarch Pass to HWY 50
2. Rainbow Trail from Silver Creek to Oak Creek.
3. Poplar Gulch Trail
4. Sundgren Sunset Loop (part of the 54 acre Big Bend OHV Park in Salida)
5. Greens Creek Trail
6. The DudBob Trail
While Recreating, We Commit to Ongoing Maintenance - helping to keep users from going off-trail
A significant amount of work continuously goes on in the Spring when members carry saws onto the trails to clear them of downfall. Scores of large tree trunks and countless number of branches are moved off trails and any remaining snowdrifts are cleared.
On rides, members visually inspect and evaluate maintenance needs. Riders regularly stop during their rides to fix minor problems they encounter - blowdowns, safety hazards, obstructions, trash, etc.
Big Bend OHV Park - A place for families to recreate
Not only does CCMR adopt trails across Central Colorado, but CCMR also helps the AHRA/BLM maintain and improve the function and safety at Big Bend OHV Park through grants and volunteer workdays.
In addition to maintenance, CCMR volunteers built the singletrack Sundgren Sunset Loop at Big Bend and plans are underway to build facilities at the track to improve the experience for both riders and spectators.
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Advocating To Preserve and Build Multi-Use Trails
Central Colorado Mountain Riders has been a trail advocate organization since 2016. We began as a small group of singletrack motorcycle riders seeking to create, maintain, and preserve our trails. Since then, both CCMR and motorized trail preservation issues have evolved and grown significantly.
Read more about our advocacy efforts to improve, grow and preserve motorized trails - now and for future generations.
Also visit our "Important Links" to support OHV advocacy organizations.
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Scheduled Trail Maintenance Events
In fostering public land stewardship, CCMR trail maintenance events provide volunteers the opportunity to give back to the trails they love, meet new people, and have a good time doing it!
Working with other trail groups has been a great addition to regular workdays - Salida Mountain Trails (SMT) and CCMR join forces to celebrate National Trails Days. SMT also helped with our annual "Crest Shovel Party" to clear paths through massive snowbanks on the Monarch Crest Trail.
There are two ways to get event news:
Follow CCMR on Facebook
Join CCMR to receive our newsletters.
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Community Support
In addition to our primary work with land managers, CCMR is proud to support community events.
Since our inception, the Central Colorado Mountain Riders have worked hard to build a positive relationship with the community and other groups that recreate on trails.
We help recreation groups with their trail events - pre-event trail clearing, flagging and providing sweep. At community fairs, we showcase our work, promote stewardship, and provide information on trail rules, safety and etiquette.
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Education - Trail Etiquette, Safety and Rules
CCMR is considered a leader in their efforts to promote safety, good will, trail etiquette and the need to stay on trails to all users.
Examples of this are our trailhead kiosks - a recognized successful tool that is being incorporated by other groups.
We also believe it is important to enlighten trail users on the extent of trail maintenance provided by the motorized community and the grants we obtain through CPW OHV registration sticker revenue to maintain, expand, and improve trails.
In addition, is important everyone recognize the pleasures and economic value of our muti-use trails.
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Building New Trails
CCMR is known for its work to maintain and preserve multi-use trails, but also has had success in building three new trails with a fourth in the works.
Read more about Bob and Dudley's long journey to plan, get approvals and build the DudBob trail.
Located in the Big Bend OHV Park the Sundgren Sunset Loop was built in honor of CCMR's first Treasurer and is a great singletrack addition to the other tracks.
Lastly - after 6 years, the iconic Rainbow Trail is once again continuous with an 8 mile reroute through the great effort of CCMR, land managers and local land owners.
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