Chaffee Recreation Adopters is hosting a cleanup event in partnership with Game Trail residents on Wednesday, July 27 in the North Cottonwood Creek drainage west of Buena Vista.
Volunteers will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Game Trail Mail Center on Great Peaks Drive. They are asked to bring a 5-gallon bucket, shovel and wheelbarrow, if possible, as well as work gloves and a water bottle. Sturdy boots, long pants and long sleeves are recommended. Trash bags, a water cooler and packaged snacks will be provided.
Event participants will clean up public recreation areas along County Road 365, the main access to the Silver Creek, Harvard Lakes and North Cottonwood Creek trailheads.
The event will focus on about 50 vehicle-accessed campsites, where surveys completed last year show trash and excessively large campfire rings at many of the sites. North Cottonwood Creek is the source for Buena Vista’s water supply, and the drainage has high wildfire danger due to dense and dry forest conditions.
Chaffee County Fire Protection District will provide a dump trailer to pick up trash and campfire ashes that are collected in biodegradable bags.
