COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Colorado State Recreational Trails Grant Program funds projects to continue to improve outdoor recreation opportunities, including trail construction, maintenance, planning, and support while protecting wildlife, habitat, and cultural resources.

• Colorado Parks and Wildlife
  
• Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO)
  
• Colorado Lottery
  
• Recreational Trails Program (RTP)

What projects are eligible for this grant?

We are offering four categories for this year's Non-Motorized Trail grant cycle to address the increased need to repair and improve existing trails in Colorado:

• Construction - New trail or trailhead construction, including the installation or creation of new facilities where none currently exists.
  
• Maintenance - Maintenance, re-route or reconstruction of existing trails and trailheads - Improvement of current trailhead facilities.
  
• Planning - trail layout, design, engineering, feasibility studies, inventory, use studies, analysis of existing and proposed trails and master plans.
  
• Support - Building and enhancement of volunteer organizations, increasing volunteer capacity, and implementing trail training and education.
  

Funding Request Limit: Applicants can request up to $250,000 for Construction/Maintenance projects; $45,000 for Planning/Support. There is no minimum.​​​

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Grant Review Meetings - Denver Area​

The State Recreational Trails Committee and its grant review and ranking subcommittees meet to review the non-motorized trail grant applications. These meetings are open to the public and provide a platform for verbal comments on the applications.​

The 2024 grant cycle begins August 1, 2023. Information will be posted at that time.
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Grant Timeline

​Reference Documents

• SCORP​
• Strategic Plan
• Recommended Standardized Trail Terminology
  
• Insurance Requirements
  
• Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) Information​
  
• Invoice Instructions ​​
  
• Grant Invoice Form​ ​(xlsx)​​​
  
• Quarterly Progress Report Form
  
• Request for​​ Advance Payment-Federal
  
• Request for Advance Payment-Non-Federal​
  
• Budg​e​t​ For​m ​(xlsx)​
  
• Revised Budget Form​​ (xlsx)
  
  

Federal Funding Requirements

All projects awarded with federal funding are subject to the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (F​FATA). Applicants should request a Unique Entity Identifier if their organization does not already have one. The link to register for a new UEI is listed on the right under "Grant Documentation".

​Federal OMB, 2 CFR 200 Uniform Procurement Guidance applies to all CPW RTP​​ grants (as of 2018).

• Federal e-CFR w​ebsite
  
• OMB Procurement Standards
  
• Stand-alone Definitions
  
• OMB 'Claw' Chart
  

Build America, Buy America Domestic Content Procurement Preference

The Build Am​erica, Buy America​ (BABA) Act as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (s. 70901) is a domestic content procurement preference that applies to federal agencies and financial assistance funding programs, including the ​RTP. The provision specifically requires any iron, steel and manufactured goods used in projects involving construction, alteration, maintenance or repair of a public building, public works, or real property to be produced or manufactured in the United States. It specifically applies to:

• Iron or steel which must be produced in the US, including all manufacturing processes (from melting to coatings);
• A manufactured project which must be manufactured in the US, with 55% minimum domestic content; and
• A construction material which must be manufactured in the US.
  

State trails staff and grant reviewers cannot comment on the status of a grant application until the evaluation and scoring process is completed.​​