Ouray Trail Group volunteers move a rock to build new stone steps on the Perimeter Trail near Cascade Falls in this 2021 file photo. Pictured here from left to right are Trevor Peterson, Kevin Schiffer, John Hulburd and Frank Robertson. The trail group plans to build a half-mile segment of the trail that will get it off Oak Street and complete the 6-mile loop around the city of Ouray. Photo courtesy Ouray Trail Group
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Perimeter Trail’s last leg set for completion
If elk could walk over the horizontal bands that mark the mountains surrounding Ouray, maybe people could too, a young Bob Risch thought. The idea would eventually spark the creation of one of the city’s most popular attractions.
Growing up in the city in the mid-1900s, the Ouray Trail Group’s vice president remembers a childhood in a neighborhood that was much quieter than it is today. Ouray hadn’t yet dubbed itself the “Outdoor Recreation Capital” of Colorado, and there was no roughly...
