Carhart Trail Construction - Pueblo Mountain Park
The Carhart Trail weaves its way across a steep side slope through the Pueblo Mountain Park
An adventurous connection to history
In 2018, Southern Colorado Trail Builders embarked on a project partnering with the Nature and Wildlife Discovery Center of Pueblo and the National Forest Service to construct a new trail in the Pueblo Mountain Park. The Carhart Trail connects the Pueblo Mountain Park and its existing trail network to the Squirrel Creek trail of the San Isabel National Forest. The trail was planned, laid out, and constructed using 100% volunteer labor and SCTB hand tools.
Hiking or riding the Carhart Trail will bring you to the eastern end of the Squirrel Creek trail. Along Squirrel Creek and the immediate vicinity, you will find the first planned recreation area in the US Forest Service developed by Arthur Carhart, the trail’s namesake. So if you like exploring public lands, Arthur Carhart, and specifically this area, has played an important role in your life. In many ways, this is where public outdoor recreation got its start. Right outside of Pueblo. The Carhart Trail offers a connection to the history of this area, and an important link to the future of outdoor recreation in the region.
Learn more about Arthur Carhart and the area’s history here!
At a few locations, the trail opens up to stellar views of the Wet Mountains and the Beulah Valley.
Volunteers swing trail tools to remove leaf/pine duff while bench cutting the new trail.
“Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America
-Arthur Carhart
Thank you to our volunteers & funders
The construction and improvement of the Carhart trail is thanks to thousands of hours of volunteer labor and generous grants and donations from local, regional, and national organizations. Specific funding support from Colorado Parks & Wildlife, San Isabel Electric, and Basin Electric Power Cooperative.
Thank you to our Carhart trail funding partners:
