Black Forest Trails Association

City Council voted 6-3 in favor of purchasing the Anderson parcel! The item will go before Council again for a second hearing in about two weeks and then (if all goes well, which it should) a closing date will be set. This new parcel will one day allow a northeast access to Corral Bluffs that’s… [Continue Reading]

Promoting use of Black Forest Trails and Parks for hikers, bikers, educational purposes, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, and equestrians Fun trails for avid horseriders

View of Pike’s Peak from the trail in Section 16 Park

  Section 16 Toilet Update—by Judi Tobias Shortly before the first of the year, BFTA reached its goal of $5000 as its portion of the cost of the vault toilet to be built at Black Forest Section 16. Many thanks to all our generous donors who made this happen. On Jan. 31, the first meeting… [Continue Reading]

by Cheryl Pixley The spring Trail and Road Cleanup for Section 16 is scheduled for May 12.  Meet at the Section 16 parking lot (on the north side of Burgess Road just west of Vollmer) at 9:00am.  We will end at 11:30am, or earlier if we have a good turnout of workers. In the event… [Continue Reading]

Black Forest Regional Park Playground

Black Forest Regional Park Picnic Pavilion

by Hank Hoover If you’ve visited our website recently (BlackForestTrails.org) you may have noticed that we are entering the world of social networking by having Facebook and Twitter accounts. You can post your photos, organize activities, tell us about problems with parks in our area, give us suggestions, etc. Hopefully these tools will allow us to… [Continue Reading]

Black Forest Trails Association lost one of its founding members on December 20, 2011.  “Ike” Mosgrove got things started in 1994-95 and kept them going until poor health slowed her down in recent years. There had been an earlier trails organization called the Black Forest Equestrian Club which had become inactive which left a small… [Continue Reading]