Conserved Colorado
We love Colorado.
We love its lands, and we love its people.
Let’s bring them together.
Our Conserved Colorado Summer 2025 Guide is now available to download for your summer adventures. Click on the cover at right to view the full guide digitally.
This newest edition has a refreshed layout and engaging new maps and includes:
- Six added listings with a wide variety of new products and experiences! Find everything from custom-made alpaca hats and lavender essential oils to wine tastings and 100% grass fed and finished lamb and beef.
- A sampling of publicly accessible conserved land across the state, including feature stories about three open spaces in the Aspen region and City of Greeley’s newest open space addition.
- A comprehensive list of 14 farmers markets across the state where you can connect with businesses represented in the guide.
- A story from passionate landowners in Westcliffe who are providing experiences to connect with nature, horses, and chickens.
Looking for a hard copy version of this guide? Get a copy by reaching out to Yvonne Schramm at YSchramm@ColoradoOpenLands.Org!
Conserved Colorado is a collaboration of people – landowners, consumers, and business owners – all in support of land conservation.
Conserved Colorado starts with a landowner who chooses to protect their land with a conservation easement. Conserving land means permanent protection from property subdivision and development. It means that an open space stays an open space, a ranch stays a ranch – forever. It means that all the benefits that come from the land remain for future generations: local food, scenic views, fresh water, wildlife habitat, outdoor recreation, outdoor education, and Colorado’s heritage.
Landowners work hard to conserve and steward their land. They produce our food and other consumer products, and host many of our memorable adventures! We can honor these landowners by purchasing their products and experiences. Colorado Open Lands publishes two seasonal guides per year to help you do just that! Our guides are a user-friendly way for you to support landowners who have given Coloradans the ultimate gift of protecting their land.
For Landowners and Businesses
Colorado Landowners – We appreciate all the work you have done and continue to do to conserve your land in perpetuity. In honor of your commitment to our state’s future, we would love the opportunity to market your products or experiences to consumers across the state. Whether you grow vegetables, sell meat, offer to a CSA (community-supported agriculture), host guiding trips, or run education programs, let’s connect these offerings to people in the state that admire and appreciate your dedication. The program is free to join, and your property can be conserved with any land trust or organization.
Businesses – The current guides provide a direct connection between landowners and consumers, but we acknowledge that many landowners who have conserved their land may also sell to businesses such as restaurants. As this program grows, consumers will be able to support both businesses who source from conserved land, as well as directly from landowners.
For more information, please contact Yvonne Schramm at yschramm@coloradoopenlands.org.