Pagosa Area Trails Council (PATC) is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The mission of PATC is to be an advocate for trails and other outdoor recreation in the greater Pagosa Springs area, working collaboratively with land managers, agencies, and recreation user groups to communicate, educate, coordinate, and fundraise in support of trail and outdoor recreation opportunities.

The PATC Board meets regularly with USFS Pagosa Ranger District officials and the various trail user groups in the community. It is the consensus amongst this group that keeping our local trails accessible, cleared and safe, especially due to the spruce beetle killed trees falling on our local trails  is the number one threat to future trail access in our region and that extraordinary efforts and funding in the coming years is  critical in order to keep our forest trails open, safe  and accessible now and into the future. Over 40,000 trees have been cleared in the Pagosa Ranger District  since 2018 when PATC  started the “Clear the Trails Campaign”.