Elevate Your Trails. Join us for #IdahoGives next week to kick off our trail season. Idaho Gives is a week of giving designed to bring the state together and raise money and awareness for Idaho nonprofits.
Read MoreAre you passionate about the outdoors and want to work with our trail community? Are you motivated to help donors align their giving with their values? We are looking for an experienced development professional to lead our fundraising program and help us continue to grow our impact.
Read MoreTrails are Common Ground, a coalition of people, businesses, and advocacy groups working together to create a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for anyone who steps, rides or rolls onto any trail, anywhere, has partnered with IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association)…
Read MoreTrails are Common Ground, a coalition of people, businesses, and advocacy groups working together to create a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for anyone who steps, rides or rolls onto any trail, anywhere, has partnered with IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association)…
Read MoreDo you enjoy being outside and working with people? We are looking for a full-time seasonal (April - Nov) staff member to expand our field capacity.
Read MoreTrails are Common Ground, a coalition of people, businesses, and advocacy groups working together to create a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for anyone who steps, rides or rolls onto any trail, anywhere, has partnered with IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association)…
Read MoreThe Wood River Valley brings in thousands of visitors every summer, many of whom use our extensive trail network. While these visitors bring their dollars to the valley’s economy, the trails that bring these visitors here do not receive any direct money from this economic driver.
Read MoreOn January 18th, Amazon announced they are closing AmazonSmile to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
Read MoreWe are recruiting Trail Bosses for the 2023 season! You do not need to be a trail expert! We are looking for individuals who have an appreciation for trails, want to learn more and share that knowledge with others.
Read MoreWhile we’re deep in the throes of winter here in the Wood River Valley, that doesn’t mean we aren’t thinking about the next summer trail season! As we start to plan our trail counter schedule for 2023, we thought it might be interesting to see if and how snowfall in the winter season might affect overall trail use.
Read MoreLearn more about how your support this past year impacted your trails and your community!
Read MoreThe Ketchum Ranger District (KRD) Trail Crew has released their 2022 Annual Report! Thank you for supporting the WRTC so we can help support the KRD professional trail crew.
Read MorePaths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people.
Read MoreListen in as WRTC Program Coordinator Emily Rodrigue discusses totals from 2022, along with exciting new ways land managers are putting this data to work.
Read MoreInvest in the Future of Your Trails. We’re raising $100,000 by December 31st so that you may continue to enjoy your trails not only for yourself today and tomorrow, but for generations to come.
Read MoreWe finally have some solid, consistent data from our two trail counters on the Alden Gulch trail (#144), and we’d love to hear your feedback on the results!
Read MoreWe looked at data collected in August from 3 of our trail counter locations and compared results between 2021 and 2022. Here are our results…
Read MoreIn the Fall of 2021 the Wood River Trails Coalition, National Forest Foundation and Higher Ground partnered with the Ketchum Ranger District of the Sawtooth National Forest and contracted with Titus Trails to perform extensive maintenance on Forbidden Fruit and to build a mile-long extension. This extension is designed specifically for adaptive mountain bikers, but also provides a fun alternative from Eve’s for all riders.
Read MoreBorn from the ashes of 2007’s Castle Rock fire in Sun Valley, the story of Forbidden Fruit is one of progression and accessibility - emblematic of the local riding community and those who have and continue to shape the scene.
These are the magical humans gettin' it done out there! They’re effective, resilient, gritty trail stewards who put a lot of love into the trails in our community. From top left to right you have the Trails Supervisor - Kent May, Dan Forsythe, Amy Sevick and Nick Reed. From bottom left to right you have Lisa Meister, Emily Ainsworth and Heather Johnson.
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