Video: Building the Cottonwood Trail in Salida, Colorado

Volunteers with Salida Mountain Trails put in serious work to build the new Cottonwood Trail, and the payoff looks absolutely worth it.
By Greg Heil
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Cottonwood Trail in Salida, CO with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado from The Branding Agency on Vimeo.

The Cottonwood Trail has been the key project for Salida Mountain Trails in 2014. This video shows the amount of work that it takes to open a brand new trail… and how sweet the payoff for all that hard work is!

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