About the Leave No Trace Organization 

What is Leave No Trace?

Leave No Trace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing Leave No Trace programs, education, training and outreach in all 50 states and more than 100 countries around the globe. Utilizing the power of science, education for all, and stewardship to support and protect nature, Leave No Trace is on a mission to ensure a sustainable future for the outdoors and the planet. Learn more at: www.LNT.org.

Proud Partner of Leave No Trace Organization

Granite Mountain Guides is a proud partner of the non-profit organization Leave No Trace
At Leave No Trace, there is no substitute for nature. From neighborhood walks to backcountry treks, the outdoors is for everyone. But it all has an impact. More use, over use, trash, endangered wildlife and around it all: climate change. Leave No Trace empowers people to be the solution to conservation. Through pioneering science, sustaining partnership and activating our proven training and education systems, Leave No Trace leads the way. No matter where or why you get outside, it’s yours to protect. Leave No Trace. Learn more at: www.LNT.org.

How to Get Involved

Your support helps protect the places you can’t live without.

9 out of 10 people who visit the outdoors are uninformed. With over 13 billion trips into the outdoors in the U.S. every year, people are causing too much preventable damage, and that damage is adding up. 

​You can be on the forefront of changing this troubling trend—the trashed parks and damaged trails, the formidable impacts of fire, polluted waterways and serious wildlife issues.
Now, more than ever, your role is critical. Consider this:
  • Americans pay over $2.1 billion annually to fight fires in parks and forests, 90% of which are caused by humans due to incidents such as campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, or negligently discarded cigarettes.
  • Wildlife in our parks are routinely relocated or euthanized due to conflicts with humans. The National Park Service cites human garbage as the origin of many of these unfortunate and unnecessary conflicts.
  • Grand Canyon National Park has $11 million in trail maintenance needs and more than $5 million in critical trail work is needed at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Your involvement with Leave No Trace generates solutions to these serious issues, and more. Protecting wildlife, appropriate use of fire, clean water, healthy parks and trails—all a reality when people are learning about and practicing Leave No Trace. Costly and irreversible damage to nature is eliminated or substantially reduced through Leave No Trace education, training, and outreach. 

We can’t do it without you.