Cowdrey Draw to Mayhoffer/Singletree Trail-Funding Request

Boulder Area Trails Coalition (BATCO)
P.O. Box 19726
Boulder, Colorado 80308
Attn: Board of Directors

Re: Cowdrey Draw to Mayhoffer/Singletree Trail-Funding Request

Dear Board Members:

Boulder County Parks and Open Space will be applying for a trails grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) on July l, 2008 for grant funding to complete the Cowdrey Draw to Mayhoffer/Singletree Trail (northerly segment) which will connect the Marshall Mesa trail (Community Ditch and Cowdrey Draw trails) to the Town of Superior. Please know that these GOCO grants are extremely competitive. Part of the grant's scoring criteria is based on the project's level of matching funds and partnerships. Would BATCO be willing to become a financial partner in this project? Your financial contribution will provide the opportunity for this grant to receive a higher score, which increases the chances of this project being funded. The benefit to visitors/users and Boulder County will be that this trail segment will be constructed 5r years earlier than planned, in 2009 than 2015.

Boulder County Transportation is currently working on the construction design for the southerly segment (Mayhoffer/Singletree Trail to Coalton trail), with construction of this segment to begin in2009; this segment is being fully funded by our Transportation Department.

In Septemb er 2007 , Boulder County, the Town of Superior, and the City of Boulder completed an extensive management plan of the Marshall-Superior-Coalton trail corridor. The development of this north segment, the Cowdrey Draw to Mayhoffer/Singletree Trail is a direct recommendation from this plan. This grant application for the northerly segment would provide the final connector to creating a loop trail that includes the Marshall Mesa Community Ditch Trail, the Cowdrey Draw Trail, the Coalton Trail and the Greenbelt Plateau Trail. This proposed trail would ultimately connect to trail systems in the Eldorado Springs area; Eldorado State Park; the Chautauqua trail system, and to Boulder County's trail systems north, west and east of the Town of Superior, and the City of Boulder.

Parks and Open Space appreciates partnering with BATCO on our trail projects, and we would like to partner with your agency to complete this important trail link. With your help, we are in a much better position to make this project happen now. Please let us know by the end of June if you would be willing to contribute. I am attaching a spec sheet on project that includes a link to the management plan, which provides maps and details of the Marshall-Superior-Coalton Trail. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 3 03 - 67 8 - 627 8, or E-Mail : rstewart@bouldercounty. org.

Ron Stewart
Director, Boulder County Parks and Open Space