Nearly 20 local volunteers helped improve the popular Kane Creek trailhead near Moab, Utah on Saturday’s National Public Lands Day.

 

The project was part of a Tread Lightly! program called HUMMER’s Recreation Rescue. With funding from HUMMER and help from local volunteers, Tread Lightly!  is providing project grants to recreation projects around the country to help ensure land remains accessible for responsible recreationists.

 

The Kane Creek trailhead and staging area serves several nationally known routes and is used by four-wheel drive enthusiasts and ATV, motorcycle, and mountain bike riders.  Representatives from the Bureau of Land Management’s Moab Field Office and the Moab Friends for Wheelin’ club jointly planned the site rehabilitation effort.

 

For Public Lands Day, the volunteers split into teams.  Setting up an on-site shop, one group constructed physical additions to the kiosk that will contain new information on safety and responsible use, along with a large color map showing the Kane Creek Area’s travel routes.  The kiosk will also be used to distribute a new brochure/map about the area produced by the Friends-For-Wheeling with funding from the HUMMER Recreation Rescue program.  

 

Following heavy equipment work completed by the Bureau of Land Management, a second team installed a post and cable fence to define the entry to the parking area and help stabilize the bank of the old quarry.  

 

A third team repaired the fence that separates the trailhead area from nearby private land, and a fourth team re-installed signing along the Cliff Hanger route where it crosses Kane Creek to protect streamside vegetation. Volunteers also picked up litter around the area. 

 

Moab Friends for Wheelin’ will continue to work on the trailhead’s projects through October. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Tread Lightly! at treadlightly@treadlightly.org or 1-800-966-9900.