Note from townCommunity
LaVESTA: The Volunteers Behind La Ventana’s Trails
The trails above La Ventana and El Sargento are built and kept open by LaVESTA, a volunteer trail association. They also teach kids to ride and hike, lend kids bikes, and run a trail rescue team.
Every trail you ride or walk above La Ventana and El Sargento is looked after by LaVESTA, the La Ventana El Sargento Trail Association. It is a group of volunteers, started in early 2023, who build the trails, keep them open, and look after the land they run through.
What they do
- Trails. Volunteers do the trail work, and donations pay a small local crew to keep the network ridable through the season.
- Kids. Hiking and stewardship classes for local kids and families, kids mountain-bike classes, and a kids bike library, so a child without a bike can still ride.
- Trail rescue. A rescue team with a stretcher, a backboard, radios and antivenom, trained to the same incident system first responders use.
If something goes wrong on a trail
Message LaVESTA’s trail rescue team on WhatsApp: +52 612 221 6416. Save it before you ride. A rescue out here is slow and the nearest trauma centre is far away, so their own advice is the best there is: ride within your limits.
Two dates in December
- 5 December: the opening of the new Ejido Trail Park in the hills of El Sargento, with hikes, rides and a ribbon cutting.
- 17 December: LaVESTA’s fundraising party at Baja Joe’s.
Both are on what’s on in La Ventana.
How to help
Ride the trails, pick up what you find, and give something back if they’ve given you a good morning. You can donate to LaVESTA, volunteer through their Get Involved page, or follow them on Instagram.
LaVESTA is on the town guide’s community page, with the other groups who look after the town. The trails themselves are on mountain biking in La Ventana.
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