WealthVest Employees Clean Trails at Glen Lake Rotary Park

Bozeman Financial Services Company Helps Clean Up Local Hiking/Walking Area prior to Popular Family Event

With rakes, tree trimmers and trash bags in tow, employees at WealthVest spent a recent August morning helping the Gallatin Valley Land Trust complete annual maintenance work on the trails in and around Glen Lake Rotary Park in Bozeman.

A popular spot for families and outdoor enthusiasts, the trail system experienced an abundance of growth following a wet spring in the Gallatin Valley. WealthVest’s employees worked alongside the Land Trust to trim back vegetation and tree branches, as well as clear the trail of debris to make it easier for individuals and families to traverse the trails. The company’s home office is located across the street from the park. 

“This is our second year working with GVLT and it was fun to volunteer at a park so close to where we work,” said Connor Kellermyer, a volunteer and employee at WealthVest. “Our team had a great time cleaning up the area for the community, as well as preparing it for the Bumblewood Thicket Fairy Village that is being installed by local artists along the park’s trail system later this month.”

Known locally as the Bozeman Beach, the 83-acre park and adjacent recreation area are located in the northeast part of town, just two miles north of downtown Bozeman. Formerly a gravel pit and city landfill, volunteers have worked with the State of Montana to reclaim the area and transform it into a park and recreation area with numerous amenities over the last two decades, including a 4-acre lake, picnic shelters and a pavilion, a sandy beach, volleyball courts, a climbing rock and more than 3 miles of trails.

Founded in 1990 The Gallatin Valley Land Trust is a nonprofit working to conserve open space and expand community trails in and around the Gallatin Valley in Southwest Montana.  They have helped preserve more than 78 square miles of land for future generations through a variety of public and private partnerships, according to their website.

To learn more about the park or the Gallatin Valley Land Trust’s work in and around Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley, visit www.gvlt.org.