Sometimes a small project can make a major difference.
The Town of Alma will receive $28,000 to help it acquire a 2.8-acre parcel within the Buckskin Creek corridor. The site is presently used illegally by hikers and bikers to gain access to a nearby trail system. The town plans to later add a two-mile trail, picnic benches, tables and interpretative signage to the site.
Great Outdoors Colorado’s “mini grant” program provides funding for projects that cost $60,000 or less but will be a major benefit to a community. The GOCO board of trustees has awarded four such grants totaling $133,000 to help Colorado towns build amenities for senior and youth, improve ball fields and to acquire private property being used by the public to access a nearby trail system.
GOCO invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to help preserve and enhance the state’s parks, trails, wildlife, rivers and open spaces.
Its independent board awards competitive grants to local governments and land trusts, and makes investments through Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Created when voters approved a Constitutional Amendment in 1992, GOCO has since funded more than 4,500 projects in urban and rural areas in all 64 counties without any tax dollar support. Visit goco.org for more information.
