Ketchum and the Wood River Valley is widely known for its abundance of outdoor recreation opportunities and access to public lands, but that’s not all there is to do in the summer season. There is an abundance of festivals, fairs, speaker series, and other events that attract folks from all over the region and even the country, with all sorts of different interests and ideas to share…
Read MoreThank you to everyone who donated on Giving Tuesday! We raised of $4,500 in one day! The money raised from Giving Tuesday will support our mission: to create, maintain and sustain our local trail network for all users, which includes increasing trail education, feeding our volunteers, buying additional tools, continuing to fund the Ketchum Ranger District professional trail crew, purchasing additional trail counters so we can continue to gather valuable trail data and more.
Read MoreOur 2021 Impact Report is live!
The report is filled will all sorts of interesting facts and figures from this year including info on the trail use survey, volunteer program, Trail Boss program, the Adam’s Gulch project, partnerships, major gifts and more!
Check it out to learn more about how your support this year impacted your trails and community.
Read MoreThe Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew has released their 2021 Annual Report!
The U.S. Forest Service - Ketchum Ranger District (KRD) has more than 400 miles of single-track trail for a wide variety of users, from hikers to mountain bikers, equestrians to dirt bikes. The KRD lacks the appropriate annual funding to adequately finance a trail crew for routine maintenance and new trail projects. Without predictable federal funding, the Forest Service struggles to keep up with the constant workload and backlog of trail maintenance.
Read MoreThis summer, 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 data on our valley’s hiking, biking, and riding trails. The results from this survey, the first conducted since 2012, will be used to help develop future projects and identify opportunities for better education and management of the Wood River Valley’s trail system.
Read MoreWood River Trails Coalition member Cuyler Swindley has started a great bicycle tire recycling program! It’s hard to come to terms with just throwing old bike tires into the landfill, so Cuyler has created a solution: LifeAfterBikes.
Read MoreJoin us on October 23rd out on the new Forbidden Fruit flow trail. Come help fine-tune the mile of new flow trail. We will be raking berms, compacting soil and getting the trail ready for next season shredding!
WEATHER DEPENDENT!
Armed with shovels, rakes, loppers and saws, our protagonists enter into the woods. They’ve converged on a common cause- the annual buffing of a beloved local trail. Most have accessed via mountain bikes of all shapes and sizes- each bicycle a caricature of themselves, their Batmobiles.
Read MoreHear from our Executive Director, Sara Gress, about what’s going on out on Forbidden Fruit and why it’s closed until Spring 2022.
Shoutout to all the donors that helped make the project possible! Thank you!
Check out this time lapse of Titus Trails working hard on fixing a corner on Forbidden Fruit!
Read MoreWatch the video below for an update on Forbidden Fruit. Hear from Justin Blackstead - Ketchum Ranger District Trail Crew Supervisor - about the Adam’s Gulch Adaptive Sports Trail Enhancement Project and why you should respect the Forbidden Fruit trail closure.
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