The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is actively seeking partners to support efforts to increase accessibility and usability to the Santa Fe Canyon Preserve (SFCP), a 525-acre nature preserve that is open to the public and includes a 1.5 mile interpretative loop trail. Years of restoration and conservation work has turned what was once the center of the city’s hydroelectric industry into an oasis with wildflowers, willows, deer and beaver. We are seeking funding to make trail improvements to existing trail, build a new ADA Compliant pathway, replace the current 20-year-old illegible interpretative signage with multi-lingual signage that includes English, Spanish and Braille and build a new educational gathering space for students and families. Through a competitive bidding process, The Nature Conservancy selected Surroundings design firm for design and construction of the project. This project was originally slated to be completed in 2020, however, because of Covid19 we were unable to move forward with the work. This project is shovel ready and we’re set to break ground in mid-September. We estimate this project to be completed by the end of 2022.