Boulder County submits an application for Land And Water Conservation Funds to develop Twin Lake Trail. Paul Maxwell is promoted from Resource Manager to Director of the Open Space Department and serves until October 1979. The Forestry Division is created with 15 crew members. It is Boulder County's first large open-space purchase. Superior Cemetery is donated to Boulder County as a Bicentennial project.
Rangers can only issue courtesy notices of violations.
The County enters into a management agreement with the City of Boulder to manage Boulder Falls, Buckingham Park and Buckingham Campground. The management agreement stays in effect until 1993. The Forestry Division sells 100 cords of beetle wood from the Walker Ranch logging operation to help fund the forestry project. The Fairgrounds are moved from Roosevelt Park to its present location on Nelson Rd. in Longmont. In April, construction of the Fairgrounds Exhibit Building begins.