CO.STARTERS

CO. STARTERS is a nine-week, cohort-based program that equips entrepreneurs of all kinds with the insights, relationships, and tools needed to turn business ideas into action. The only real prerequisites to joining the program are (1) having an idea, (2) being willing to question, shape and fine-tune that idea, and (3) being willing to talk about the idea with others.

CLAY FESTIVAL

Taking place every summer in Silver City, New Mexico, the CLAY Festival gathers together artists, educators, entrepreneurs, families, youth, adventurers, and life-long learners to explore clay in its many forms as well as its impact on our history, present, and future.

Five Points Initiative

In collaboration with existing efforts to link Grant County communities via road, bike trails and walkways, the Five Points initiative will support and expand upon county-wide development in the outdoor recreation sector. Connections linked through biking, hiking and horse-riding trails offer extensive programming opportunities and health benefits. The proximity to Historic Fort Bayard will increase tourism activity and cultural programming prospects, as well as enhance connections to the Gila National Forest, Gila River, and Aldo Leopold Wilderness, for locals and tourists to further explore the innumerable natural assets of Southwest New Mexico.

GILA TRAILS AND OPEN SPACES

The Boston Hill Trail Signage and Trail Expansion project is facilitated by multiple members of the Gila Trails and Open Space Coalition (GTOSC) and the Town of Silver City Trails and Open Space Committee (TOSC).   The Boston Hill Open Space, located just minutes away from downtown Silver City, is comprised of 556 acres of Town, BLM and Western New Mexico University lands. Six organizations in Silver City, including a local cartographer and handfuls of volunteers (including the Aldo Leopold Charter School’s Youth Conservation Corps Trail Crew), have been working on this project since early 2019 and Phase One of the expansion project is now complete, with approximately 4.5 miles of new hiking, biking and trail-running trails, supported by a comprehensive map posted at 7 trailhead sites and 14 junction sites.   Trails are color-coded on the maps, correlating to colored trail markers with directional stickers and the new Boston Hill logo, on each trail marker.   The newly created Blue Loop provides an internal loop of the Boston Hill Open Space – there is user access to the Blue Loop from each trailhead.