Past Projects
The Fox Creek Bridge Replacement Project
The Fox Creek Trail is one of the most loved rides and hikes in the Wood River Valley—but the creek crossing has become a weak link. Repeated flooding has damaged the existing bridge and turned the crossing into an unstable mix of logs, water, and guesswork.
We’re replacing the current crossing with a 70-foot engineered steel trail bridge designed to span the entire floodplain.
Projects like this only happen because of community support.
From trail users to local businesses to partner organizations, the Fox Creek Bridge project reflects a shared commitment to maintaining safe, sustainable trails on our public lands. Together, we’re creating, maintaining, and sustaining our trail network for all users.
QUIGLEY-HANGMAN CONNECTOR
The Quigley-Hangman Connector is designed to make the unofficial “social” trail an official route that connects the new Hang Tight/Loose Trails to the Quigley Loop Trail. Hikers, trail runners, mountain bikers and adaptive mountain bikers will be able to access the Hangman drainage from the Quigley side and vice-versa.
This connector trail will be about 1 mile long, and will feature 521’ of elevation gain, great for beginner to intermediate hikers, mountain bikers, trail runners and adaptive mountain bikers. Additionally, this trail will be built and maintained to a 48” tread width allowing adaptive mountain bikers , community members with mobility limitations, beginners, and families to experience the same joy and challenge the rest of our Valley’s trail system offers. This wider tread width accommodates adaptive mountain bikes up to 36” wide, strollers and anyone needing a bit more breathing room than the typical 18 - 24” singletrack trail provides.
Samson’s rampage
Winding through the scenic slopes of Croy Canyon, the new Samson’s Rampage Trail offers a sweeping wide-open experience for all trail users. Designed primarily for motorized use, the trail delivers a beginner-to-intermediate challenge for dirt bikers and an intermediate-to-advanced ride for mountain bikers looking to grunt up the climbs. Trail runners and hikers will enjoy a South Valley trail with some “punchy” climbs that will keep you on your toes (literally!)
Stretching 5.5 miles between 5,792 and 6,410 feet in elevation, this singletrack offers medium exposure, and grades averaging 10% with occasional steep pitches up to 25%. Riders will enjoy sweeping canyon views, stretches of solitude, and the physical challenge of sustained climbs and descents.
GREENHORN IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT
In 2024, we completed Phase 1 of the Greenhorn Improvements Project. Through our partnership with the Ketchum Ranger District, and with funding from the American Trails Legacy Trails Program, we were able to remove two bridges and reroute the main Greenhorn Trail and the Imperial Trail to create a more sustainable entry to the popular trail network.
ADAM’S GULCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS TRAIL ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
In 2021 we joined forces with the National Forest Foundation and Higher Ground to help the Ketchum Ranger District of the Sawtooth National Forest to extend and improve Forbidden Fruit Trail for a better adaptive mountain bike experience, replace and/or rebuild the current trail bridges along Adam's Gulch Trail and improve the current trailhead area.
2021 TRAIL USE SURVEY
In the Summer of 2021, WRTC, in partnership with the Ketchum Ranger District Trails Program and the Environmental Resource Center, conducted a summer trail use survey to better understand usership patterns and obtain up-to-date info on our valley’s hiking, biking, and riding trails.
ALDEN GULCH
In 2018, the WRTC teamed up with the Sawtooth National Forest - Ketchum Ranger District, National Forest Foundation and Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation to reconstruct 4.7 miles of Alden Gulch Trail #144. The trail had been essentially destroyed by the Beaver Creek Fire in 2013 and subsequent debris flows due to major rain events in the weeks after the fire.