Trail training, workshops, and conferences on trail building, planning, management, land protection, organization development, leadership, tools, GIS data, parks, bike/ped facilities, nonmotorized transportation, funding, and stewardship.
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Wentworth, NC
July 24, 2018Participants will learn how to maintain sustainable trails. The session will cover vegetation trimming, deberming and maintaining outslope, constructing knicks and rolling grade dips, and other typical trail maintenance requirements. Students will gain field experience maintaining existing trails on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Advancing Trails Webinar Series
Moderated by Brian Housh with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and presented by a panel of elected officials, this webinar will discuss successful tactics & strategies employed to establish funding mechanisms and innovative policy initiatives that support the development of trail networks demanded by constituents.
Wentworth, North Carolina
July 31 - August 02, 2018Participants will learn how to take a critical look at trails to assess condition, maintenance, and safety. The session will also cover potential permitting requirements and trail contracting for natural surface sustainable trail projects. Students will discuss how trail condition, maintenance, and safety can affect the "trail experience", and they will also learn and discuss how the interpretation of assessment results may vary depending on user group and trail difficulty. Participants will complete desktop trail reviews, assess existing trails and proposed reroutes on the Rockingham Community College campus, discuss permits, and create contracts based on assessment results.
Wentworth, NC
August 07, 2018Participants will learn about advanced trail maintenance techniques. The session will cover trail tread narrowing and rehabilitation, armoring, checkdams, and trail closure and reclamation. Students will also review vegetation trimming, deberming and maintaining outslope, constructing knicks and rolling grade dips, and other typical trail maintenance requirements.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
August 14 - August 18, 20182018 National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council and International Off-Highway Vehicle Administrators Association joint annual conferences. These joint conferences bring together the best and brightest in the OHV community – including enthusiasts and land managers – and provide the perfect opportunity to gain and share insights on issues, hurdles and successes that have occurred since we last met in New Hampshire. For any who may attend for the first time, expect to learn a lot, meet a ton of great people, and to share your insights as well.
Advancing Trails Webinar Series
In partnership with the Equestrian Land Conservation Resource, this webinar will explain how joining or creating an organization will help in addressing issues such as poor trail design, lack of maintenance, and general misunderstanding of horses that can result in loss of trail access.
Wentworth, North Carolina
September 10 - September 13, 2018Participants will learn the five essential elements of sustainable trails and how to incorporate them into trail layout and construction. This session will guide participants from desktop trail planning to design and layout, corridor flagging, and pin flagging of a trail alignment in the field. Students will gain field experience constructing new trail, reroutes, and maintaining existing trails on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Huguenot, New York
September 20 - September 23, 2018Themes for the 2018 Anniversary Conference: Learn It: Workshops that give participants opportunities to learn and appreciate more about the natural world. Live It: Workshops that give participants opportunities to consider new ways to experience or educate in the outdoors. Pay It Forward: Workshops that give participants opportunities for making the field of Outdoor Education a stronger force for the future. These presentations are often about taking action and geared to the development of partnerships, ideas on sustainability and dealing with future challenges.
Wentworth, NC
September 24, 2018Participants will learn how to design and layout sustainable trails. The session will cover the five essential elements of sustainable trails and how to incorporate them into trail design and layout. Design considerations for a variety of trails users will be discussed. The session will guide participants from desktop trail planning to design and layout, corridor flagging, and pin flagging of a trail alignment in the field. Students will gain field experience designing and laying out new trails and trail reroutes on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Wentworth, NC
September 25, 2018Participants will learn how to construct sustainable trails with hand tools. The session will cover the five essential elements of sustainable trails and how to incorporate them into trail construction. Students will discuss and complete pre-construction trail corridor clearing and trail construction. Participants will gain field experience constructing new trails and trail reroutes on the Rockingham Community College campus
Wentworth, NC
September 26, 2018Participants will learn how to maintain sustainable trails. The session will cover vegetation trimming, deberming and maintaining outslope, constructing knicks and rolling grade dips, and other typical trail maintenance requirements. Students will gain field experience maintaining existing trails on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Wentworth, NC
September 27, 2018Participants will learn about advanced trail maintenance techniques. The session will cover trail tread narrowing and rehabilitation, armoring, checkdams, and trail closure and reclamation. Students will also review vegetation trimming, deberming and maintaining outslope, constructing knicks and rolling grade dips, and other typical trail maintenance requirements.
Astoria, Oregon
October 07 - October 10, 2018Visit sites during the Corps’ winter stay in 1805–1806. Learn about life before and after the Corps arrived. Celebrate 50 years of Trail preservation and interpretation.
Wentworth, NC
October 09 - October 11, 2018During this advanced trail training session, participants will gain an introduction into basic rockwork for trails. Students will learn how to move rock efficiently and use various methods to build stone steps. Please contact Tim Johnson, Director of Duke Energy TRAILS at Rockingham Community College for more details.
Advancing Trails Webinar Series
Presented by Ginny Sullivan with Adventure Cycling Association, Alex Duryea with Nebraska Tourism, and Kalene Griffith with Visit Bentonville
Vancouver, Washington
October 22 - October 25, 2018Every two years, the Partnership for the National Trails System convenes a conference for the members, partners and allies from the National Trails community.
Wentworth, North Carolina
October 23 - October 25, 2018Participants will learn how to take a critical look at trails to assess condition, maintenance, and safety. The session will also cover potential permitting requirements and trail contracting for natural surface sustainable trail projects. Students will discuss how trail condition, maintenance, and safety can affect the "trail experience", and they will also learn and discuss how the interpretation of assessment results may vary depending on user group and trail difficulty. Participants will complete desktop trail reviews, assess existing trails and proposed reroutes on the Rockingham Community College campus, discuss permits, and create contracts based on assessment results.
Wenatchee, Washington
October 25 - October 27, 2018The 12th biennial conference theme is “Leading the Way”. This year’s conference will offer breakout sessions along four themed tracks: Shared Trails, Shared Advocacy; Exclusivity, Diversity, and Access; Public Lands - Multiple Uses & Balancing Values; Managing for Change.
Scottsdale, Arizona
November 02 - November 04, 2018The annual conference will address important educational issues that are being presented in both a hands-on environment as well as in general workshop sessions. The Conference topics include up-to-date educational information and skills that will benefit both trail riders and trail maintenance groups, as well as our public and private land managers.
Wentworth, North Carolina
November 05 - November 08, 2018Participants will learn the five essential elements of sustainable trails and how to incorporate them into trail layout and construction. This session will guide participants from desktop trail planning to design and layout, corridor flagging, and pin flagging of a trail alignment in the field. Students will gain field experience constructing new trail, reroutes, and maintaining existing trails on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Wentworth, North Carolina
November 13, 2018Participants will learn about the characteristics of sustainable and traditional trails and the five essential elements of sustainable trails. Students will also learn and discuss how the interpretation of assessment results may vary depending on user group and trail difficulty. The session will cover user and natural impacts and include desktop trail review and field assessment. Participants will gain field experience assessing existing trails and proposed reroutes on the Rockingham Community College campus.
Wentworth, NC
November 14, 2018Participants will learn about potential permitting requirements and trail contracting for natural surface sustainable trail projects. The session will cover environmental regulatory agencies and contacts. Students will be provided with examples of trail contracts and create one of their own based on findings from a trail assessment.
Advancing Trails Webinar Series
In partnership with the Society for Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP). Presented by TBD
Advancing Trails Webinar Series
Presented by Ann Baker Easley with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado and others TBD
Wentworth, North Carolina
December 11 - December 12, 2018Participants will build on skills and knowledge they gained in the sustainable trail assessment class. Students will focus on critical assessment of a trail system in the area. The session will cover creating a trail assessment document to present findings and proposed recommendations.Students will gather the necessary information through field work to write a trail assessment document. **Interested participants should have a thorough understanding of sustainable trails and trail assessment experience before taking this class - prerequisite required.
Syracuse, NY
April 28 - May 01, 2019American Trails hosts the 24th International Trails Symposium and Training Institute in Syracuse, New York April 28 - May 1, 2019
