Trail improvement work at Red Rock Canyon Open Space will start this month.

“This work will improve and enhance the experience for all trail users visiting Red Rock Canyon Open Space,” David Deitemeyer, senior landscape architect, said in a Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department news release.

The project will work to improve six of the park’s most heavily trafficked trails by rerouting damaged sections, reinforcing existing trailheads, and providing protection to environmentally sensitive areas of the park, according to the department.

The parks department also plans on enhancing the park experience by planting native vegetation, which the department said “will blend and complement the surrounding terrain.”

The reclamation work along the Red Rock Canyon Trail

and the Roundup Trail “will restore an existing incompatible land disturbance created prior to the open space acquisition, improve drainage and erosion issues by redirecting water run-off coming out of the canyon and improve the open space trails,” according to the release.

Deitemeyer said the project is comparable with the Greenlee Trail and Lion Trail improvements that were completed in 2021.

Parkgoers should expect heavy machinery and minimal, intermittent closures on the Overlook Trail, Sand Canyon Trail, Chamberlain Trail, Palmer Red Rock Trail, Parallel Trail, Waterfall Trail and Intemann Trails throughout the duration of construction.

Work on the project is expected to run through September.