Continental Divide Trail projects and equipment

Our program works with many partners to reach our youth job skills training and employment mission. This fundraising event will begin a multi-year project providing 13 miles of single-track trail along a National Scenic Trial- The Continental Divide Trail. Partnering with Lemhi County, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Parks and Recreation and the Salmon/Challis Trail Group as well as the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, this project helps bring to fruition the dream of a single-track route from Mexico to Canada.

YEP has purchased a single-track width dozer that we used on the Bannock Pass reroute in 2021 and 2022. We are now in need of a mini-excavator to complement the dozer capabilities. This unit will help with the several hundred fallen trees in the proposed re-route and the large rocks that need to be moved.

Another use of funding is to be used as an in-kind match in our application to Idaho Parks and Recreation. This funding match is a requirement before the grant can be approved.

Please feel free to direct your donation to either of these needs.

Successful fundraising will ensure that not only this icon of a trail is improved but also that our mission of job skills training and employment is met.