For many of us in Colorado, what we love is the great outdoors. But there’s no point in going out and giving your favorite tree or scenic overlook a wrapped gift or Christmas card. So we have come up with a list of Colorado nonprofits and organizations that show love to the outdoors everyday.

Whether you’re making a donation yourself or in a loved one’s name as a gift, here are 5 awesome Colorado nonprofits to support this holiday season.

1. Colorado Fourteeners Initiative

Hiking one of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks is one of Colorado’s most popular summer activities. But so many boots, vehicles, and campsites take their toll on these mountains, so the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative works on trails and climbing routes to make them more sustainable as well as trains volunteers to educate hikers about keeping these mountains as pristine as possible. For more information or to donate, visit 14ers.org.

2. Trails and Open Space Coalition

If you live in Colorado Springs and enjoy the great trail network, then you can thank the Trails and Open Space Coalition. Formed in 1987, the organization has had a hand in all major trail projects, from the legal opening of the Manitou Incline to the Ring the Peak Trail, a work in progress that will someday form a hiking and biking loop around Pikes Peak. The organization has also been an important voice in how the city’s TOPS sales tax is dispersed to different projects. For more information or to donate, visit  trailsandopenspaces.org.

3. Colorado Youth Outdoors

Since 1991, this organization has been helping kids and families in northern Colorado get outside. The crowning achievement is Swift Ponds, a facility in Fort Collins with stocked fishing ponds, an archery range, agricultural education, and other programs to help youngsters learn more about the outdoors. For more information or to donate, visit  coloradoyo.org.

4. Colorado Mountain Bike Association

This Lakewood-based nonprofit began its existence in 1991 as the Trails Conservation Services, and maintaining trails for riders on the Front Range remains its focus. The Buffalo Creek trail network near Bailey wouldn’t exist without the CMBA’s volunteer crews, and the organization has had a hand in numerous other trail construction projects, as well as maintenance of existing routes. They also created a volunteer mountain-bike patrol that cruises the Buffalo Creek area to promote responsible and safe riding. For more information or to donate, visit  comba.org.

5. Rocky Mountain Wild

This Denver-based organization was formerly known as Colorado Wild, and their goal is protecting wild lands. Their activities include fighting projects seen as harmful to the native ecosystem and providing a watchdog for other controversial developments like oil and gas production and ski area expansion. For more information or to donate, visit  rockymountainwild.givingfuel.com.

Give in other ways:

1. Buy someone a lottery ticket

A percentage of Colorado Lottery sales goes to Great Outdoors Colorado, which provides grant money towards outdoors recreation project. Since 1983, GOCO has spent $3 billion on wilderness conservation and trails, parks, pools and other projects.

2. Sign up with Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado

This organization matches outdoors lovers with local trail and conservation projects, and there’s no better way to find out what work is being done in your neck of the woods. More than 115,000 Coloradoans have done so since the organization was founded more than 30 years ago.