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Local Business Donates $20,000 To Colorado Outdoor Organizations
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click for larger image Grand Junction, Colo.

Colorado’s outdoors will be getting a new and improved makeover thanks to one local business’s donations.

On Saturday, REI donated close to $20,000 to Colorado National Monument and Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association.

The money will fund a trail that will allow National Monument visitors to experience Echo Canyon.  It will also provide funding for a bike skills track in the Lunch Loop Skills Area located just off the trailhead’s Monument Road parking lot.

“Echo Canyon sees about 30,000 hikers every year, and recently we had to change the routing of the Echo Canyon trail, and it’s over slick rocks.  So we actually have to construct from hand a quarter mile of new trail and reroute about a mile of trail,” Joan Anzelmo with Colorado National Monument said.

“It’ll be a great park for kids of all ages to develop and hone their mountain bike skills to be able to take that to remote single tracks and hopefully mitigate the risk of injuries,” Jen Taylor with COPMOBA said.

Echo Canyon trail will be open September 25, and the Lunch Loop Skills Area is scheduled to open October 16.

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