Recycle holiday lights
The Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary is partnering with the Estes Park High School Interact Club to recycle Christmas lights. If your lights won’t turn on, or they go out halfway through the season, drop them off now through Jan. 15 in bins at the Estes Valley Library, Estes Park Elementary, Middle, and High School, or the National Park Village.
“Can do” middle school food drive
The middle school’s “can do” food drive, in partnership with Crossroads, is underway. The community can help the homerooms compete for a pizza party on Dec. 19, provided by Poppy’s. Contributions can be dropped off at the middle school and will be distributed equitably among the home rooms for the competition. Crossroads is especially in need of canned fruit, canned chili, pasta sauce, and cereal.
Join the mayor for coffee on Dec. 5
Estes Park Mayor Gary Hall will host a community coffee Friday, Dec. 5, at 10 a.m. in the Town Hall Board Room, 170 MacGregor Ave. This is an opportunity for community members to discuss local issues with the mayor in an informal setting.
Learn about trail upgrades along U.S. 34 and S.H. 7 – open house Dec. 10
The Town of Estes Park will hold a community open house focused on proposed, future upgrades to the existing asphalt trails along highways 34 and 7 on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the Estes Park Museum, 200 4th St. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. with a presentation covering both trail projects, followed by an open house format until 7:30 p.m. Both trails will be converted from asphalt to concrete with minor adjustments to alignment.
These trail upgrades are in the design phase, in preparation for future construction when sufficient funding becomes available. The project team is eager to discuss topics including the project’s impacts on driveways and intersections, aesthetics related to the conversion from asphalt to concrete, signage placement, anticipated construction impacts, prioritization of work, and potential segmentation locations for phased construction. The design effort for these trails will be completed in early 2026.
The U.S. 34 trail project includes about 1.3 miles of trail between the east entrance of the Estes Park Visitor Center, 500 Big Thompson Ave., and the existing Lake Estes trail at the Estes Park Marina, 1770 Big Thompson Ave. The S.H. 7 trail improvements will include approximately 1.7 miles of trail between Graves Avenue and Carriage Drive/Scott Ponds Natural Area.
These trail projects are funded, in part, by the voter-approved 1A sales tax revenue. For more information, please email Jamin Rucker, Public Works Department Engineer, or call 970-577-3736. Click here for more project information.