VOLUNTARIOS PARA LA NATURALEZA DE ROARING FORK
Custodia impulsada por la comunidad desde 1995
United in caring for our shared outdoors.
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers mobilizes our regional community to care for our shared backyard through education, restoration, and collective action since 1995.
The result: healthier landscapes, stronger trails, and a community more deeply connected to the places it loves.
The 2026 Season is Here!
Check out our upcoming projects below or view our full season calendar. No experience necessary! Volunteers must register ahead of the project. Click on an event to learn more about the project, including location, type of work, and how physical the work is. Feel free to contact us at info@rfov.org or 970-927-8241 with any questions or to get you registered.
Nearest Town: Redstone, CO
After five years of continuous trail maintenance and restoration efforts, we're going back to Coal Basin Ranch to complete more restoration projects at the site that was once the base for a large-scale coal mining operation. Come learn about this beautiful area and help us to plant native plants, remove invasive species and complete erosion control projects.
Structured youth activities are available for parents who would like to attend with children 4-8.
Después de cinco años de esfuerzos continuos de mantenimiento y restauración, volvemos a Coal Basin Ranch, una antigua mina de carbón. Ven a conocer este espectacular lugar mientras trabajamos en el mantenimiento de algunas rutas reconocidas mundialmente para el ciclismo de montaña y el senderismo.
Tendremos actividades organizadas para niños de 4 a 8 años mientras los padres participan como voluntarios.
Nearest Town: Redstone, CO
Filoha Meadows is home to the stream orchid, but these rare plants are being threatened by invasive Canada thistle and oxeye daisy. You can take this opportunity to see an open space otherwise closed to the public, help us control an invasive species, and protect a beautiful rare orchid!
Filoha Meadows es el hogar de la Orquídea de Arroyo, una planta rara que está siendo amenazada por especies invasoras como el Cardo Cundidor y la Margarita no nativa. Ayudarnos a controlar las especies invasoras y a proteger esta rara y hermosa orquídea. Esta también es una oportunidad única para visitar un espacio natural que normalmente está cerrado al público.
Nearest Town: Glenwood Springs, CO
Home to settlers, pioneers, war heroes, and iconic Wild-West characters, such as Doc Holliday, this easily accessible cemetery offers residents and visitors a taste of history among beautiful vistas along the trail. RFOV volunteers will continue the tradition of stewarding this historical landmark through the closing off social trails, formalizing existing trails, stabilizing degrading slopes, and trimming back vegetation.
Este cementerio es hogar de colonos, pioneros, héroes de guerra y personajes icónicos del Salvaje Oeste, como Doc Holliday. Ofrece a los residentes y visitantes una muestra de la historia, acompañada de hermosas vistas, a lo largo de un sendero de fácil acceso.
Los voluntarios de RFOV continuarán la tradición de cuidar este importante lugar trabajando en el cierre de senderos sociales, la formalización de los senderos existentes, la estabilización de pendientes degradadas y el manejo de la vegetación.
Nearest Town: Carbondale, CO
RFOV is partnering with Bee Friendly Carbondale to help maintain the native pollinator garden at Thompson House History Park — a garden built to support pollinators and the nearby Carbondale Historic Food Forest. Stop by for a relaxed, family-friendly drop-in to help with garden upkeep. No registration required, though it's appreciated if you can let us know you're coming — bring the kids and help us give the bees a home.
RFOV se ha unido a Bee Friendly Carbondale para mantener el jardín de polinizadores en el histórico parque de Thompson House. Pasa cuando puedas y por el tiempo que quieras para ayudarnos con el mantenimiento del jardín y, al mismo tiempo, ayudar a las abejas. ¡Este es un proyecto informal y apto para toda la familia! No es necesario registrarse, pero si ya sabes que vas a asistir, nos puedes dejar tus datos y te enviaremos más información.
Nearest Town: Basalt, CO
Tired of the never ending chores of watering and mowing your lawn? Do you want to learn how to beautify your home and build habitat for crucial pollinators? Join RFOV for our pollinator garden installation training to learn how to build, plant and maintain a pollinator garden and learn about the amazing local pollinators of our Rocky Mountain region!
Cansado de las interminables tareas de regar y cortar el césped? Quieres aprender a embellecer tu hogar y construir un hábitat para polinizadores cruciales? Únase a RFOV para nuestro entrenamiento de instalación de jardines de polinizadores para aprender a construir, plantar y mantener un jardín de polinizadores y aprender sobre los increíbles polinizadores locales de nuestra región de las Montañas Rocosas!
Nearest Town: Carbondale, CO
New pop-up project! We're heading back to Red Hill and could use more hands to keep Three Gulch Trail in top shape. Big thanks to White Horse Yoga for adopting this trail again this year!
Nearest Town: Glenwood Springs, CO
For our fourth consecutive year, RFOV is partnering with Defiende Nuestra Tierra and City of Glenwood Springs to host a conservation project in celebration of Latino Conservation Week. In 2026, this project will take place in the heart of Glenwood Springs at Linwood Cemetery, and the project will be fully bilingual!
Por cuarto año consecutivo, RFOV se asocia con Defiende Nuestra Tierra y la ciudad de Glenwood Springs para organizar un proyecto de conservación en celebración de la Semana de la Conservación Latina. En 2026, este proyecto tendrá lugar en el corazón de Glenwood Springs, en el cementerio de Linwood, y el proyecto será totalmente bilingüe!
Nearest Town: Silt, CO
RFOV is excited to partner with Desert Mountain Medicine and Garfield County Outdoors to offer this Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Training. This training is a great introduction to wilderness medicine and basic life support skills. It will focus on prevention, assessment, and treatment of environmental illnesses, recognizing and stabilizing life threats caused by trauma, and calling for a rescue in the vent of a wilderness emergency. Proceeds from this training will go to providing WFA training to high school students across Garfield County School District.
Nearest Town: Redstone, CO
Join RFOV on National Public Lands Day as we work with Pitkin County Open Space & Trails to provide the finishing touches on the new Redstone to McClure pass Trail! Volunteers will complete tread finalization on this newly built connector trail in the southern end of the Crystal River valley!
¡Únete a RFOV en el Día Nacional de las Tierras Públicas mientras trabajamos con Pitkin County Open Space & Trails para darle los toques finales al nuevo sendero Redstone to McClure Pass! Los voluntarios completarán la marcación del camino en este sendero conector recién construido en el extremo sur del valle del Crystal River.
Nearest Town: Glenwood Springs, CO
Like many of the trails within the Glenwood Canyon, the Jess Weaver trail was heavily damaged by the Grizzly Creek wildfire in 2020 and the subsequent flooding during the summer of 2021. For the first time since 2021, RFOV volunteers will return to the Jess Weaver Trail for a Community Project in partnership with the USFS, National Forest Foundation and Contour Logic.
Como muchos de los senderos dentro del Cañón de Glenwood, el sendero Jess Weaver fue gravemente dañado por el incendio forestal de Grizzly Creek en 2020 y las inundaciones posteriores durante el verano de 2021. Por primera vez desde 2021, los voluntarios de RFOV regresarán a Jess Weaver Trail para un proyecto comunitario en asociación con la USFS, la National Forest Foundation y Contour Logic.
Nearest Town: Carbondale, CO
RFOV is partnering with Bee Friendly Carbondale to help maintain the native pollinator garden at Thompson House History Park — a garden built to support pollinators and the nearby Carbondale Historic Food Forest. Stop by for a relaxed, family-friendly drop-in to help with garden upkeep. No registration required, though it's appreciated if you can let us know you're coming — bring the kids and help us give the bees a home.
RFOV se ha unido a Bee Friendly Carbondale para mantener el jardín de polinizadores en el histórico parque de Thompson House. Pasa cuando puedas y durante el tiempo que quieras para ayudarnos con el mantenimiento del jardín y, al mismo tiempo, ayudar a las abejas. ¡Este es un proyecto informal y apto para toda la familia! No es necesario registrarse, pero si ya sabes que vas a asistir, nos puedes dejar tus datos y te enviaremos más información.
Our 2025 Impact
2026 Season Projects & Trainings
Check out our 2026 Community Projects and Trainings by clicking on the box in the upper left corner.
Categorías de proyectos
Haga clic en las casillas siguientes para filtrar por categoría de proyecto. Al marcar varias casillas, solo se mostrarán los proyectos que se ajusten a todas las categorías seleccionadas.
Noticias
RFOV | February Stewardship Spotlight: Trail Ambassadors, Trivia Night, and Season Kick-Off Party!
Once an active coal mine, Coal Basin Ranch is now a living example of what long-term restoration can achieve. Through years of coordinated restoration and community-powered stewardship, this landscape has transformed into a place where ecological recovery and recreation coexist. From extraction to renewal, its story is still unfolding.
RFOV volunteers are helping restore Butler Creek by building beaver dam analogues that strengthen wetlands, improve trout habitat, and increase watershed resilience. Read how this hands-on work is bringing nature’s engineers back to the landscape—and what it means for the future of our local waterways.
RFOV | January Stewardship Spotlight: New Trail Ambassadors, Trivia Night, and Youth in Nature get WFA Certs!
RFOV votada como la mejor organización ecológica del valle, Youth in Nature visita el Monumento Nacional de Colorado, ¡y estamos contratando!
