GOCO invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to help preserve and enhance the state's parks, trails, wildlife, rivers and open spaces. Our independent board awards competitive grants to local governments and land trusts, and makes investments through Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Created by voters in 1992, GOCO has committed more than $917 million in lottery proceeds to more than 4,700 projects in all 64 counties without any tax dollar support.
GOCO grants have helped to:
- Create or improve 1,000 community park and outdoor recreation areas, including skate parks, ballfields and playgrounds
- Build or restore more than 900 miles of trail
- Protect more than 1 million acres of open space in perpetuity, including land along river corridors and in mountain valleys; land for wildlife habitat; agricultural land; land in the heart of cities; land that separates communities; and land that buffers state and local parks from encroaching development
- Preserve more than 750 miles of Colorado rivers
- Enable 8,000 teenagers and young adults to work in the outdoors via the Colorado Youth Corps Association
- Added more than 47,000 acres to the State Parks system and assisted Colorado Parks and Wildlife in acquiring and enhancing wildlife habitat.
In the years ahead, GOCO's work will be guided by a new strategic plan with three primary goals:
- PROTECT more land and wildlife habitat, notably large-scale landscapes
- CONNECT people to the outdoors and connect trails, parks and open spaces
- INSPIRE more Coloradans, children in particular, to get outside more and take care of our great outdoors
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1900 Grant St
Ste 725
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 226-4500
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