
July 2022
Leadville National Fish Hatchery, Colorado – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Leadville National Fish Hatchery (NFH), established in 1889, is the second oldest Federally operated fish hatchery in existence today. American Hiking Society volunteers will work on several trail projects at the Leadville National Fish Hatchery. One project is to create 3/4 mile of new trail which would create a 2 mile loop between the Kearney Park Trail and the nature trail. The trail follows some old logging/mining roads and game trails. Volunteers will conduct handwork and some dry stacking of…
Find out more »Seneca Creek Backcountry, West Virginia – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Seneca Creek Backcountry offers hikers, mountain bikers, and horsemen diverse backcountry to explore. Over 60 miles of trails twist and turn through 19,600 acres mountain vistas, open fields, along gurgling mountain streams and waterfalls, and some of the best camping in West Virginia. Bear Hunter Trail is a steep trail that climbs up to Allegheny Mountain. The trail is well located but needs rebenching and drain installation work in order to keep the trail in the correct alignment and not…
Find out more »Redwood National and State Parks – Latino Outdoors Volunteer Vacation 2022
Join Latino Outdoors and American Hiking Society on this special project which offers the opportunity to learn more about Redwoods Rising, the largest restoration project of its kind in the country that aims to restore over 50,000 acres of second-growth forest into the old-growth redwood forests of the future. Participants will have an opportunity to roam over 50 miles of trails within Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, part of Redwood National and State Parks. We’ll lend a hand to the…
Find out more »Chugach National Forest, Alaska – Seward Ranger District – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Hope Point Trail and Gull Rock trail are both located in Hope, Alaska along the Turnagain Arm. Gull Rock trail offers many scenic views as it parallels the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet (well above high tide). The trail passes through diverse vegetation: birch-aspen woods; alder-choked gullies; spruce forests; tundra with tiny spruce, mosses, and low cranberry bushes; hemlock forests with a carpet of moss. Many breaks in the woods offer views of Turnagain Arm, the shoreline, and Denali (on…
Find out more »Bitterroot National Forest, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Montana – Volunteer Vacations 2022
This project will take place in the heavily glaciated, rugged peaks of the Bitterroot Mountains. Volunteers will be clearing with crosscut saws, axes, and handsaws as well as cleaning drains and improving trail tread. The Big Creek Trail #11 threads through a scenic Montana canyon and offers a pristine Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness experience. During the first half of the trip we will clear the Big Creek trail of fallen trees from milepost 9 to Packbox Pass at milepost 13.8. There will…
Find out more »Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Join the 2022 trip into the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest as we head for Standley Ridge nested high in the Eagle Cap Wilderness! We'll depart from the Bear Wallow Trailhead and backpack into the Historic Standley Guard Station. Pack stock will carry all food and group gear, giving us time for a 4.2-mile hike into base camp with 1,000 ft of elevation gain. The trail provides spectacular views of the Bear Creek and Minam River drainages along with some of the…
Find out more »Groton State Forest, Vermont – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Help build the Cross Vermont Trail - a new four season multi-use path spanning the width of Vermont! We are "connecting communities, their schools, and the natural areas in between." The crew will build small bridges, drainage ditches, stone structures, and surface parts of the trail with gravel to make it universally accessible. Join the Cross Vermont Trail Association and work to create the foundation of a sustainable trail that is connecting communities across the entire state. AHS acknowledges with…
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Hogan and Luce Recreation Area, Wyoming – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Join the Bureau of Land Management to maintain and establish a new trail up Bald Ridge Trail! This horseback riding and hiking trail winds for five miles through BLM-managed public lands and state land to Bald Ridge in the Shoshone National Forest. The elevation ranges from 4,880'-8,400'. Spectacular views of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River to the west and of Heart Mountain to the east await you. Pronghorn, mule deer, moose, elk, and grizzly and black bears may…
Find out more »Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge is located in northern Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Superior. The refuge was established in 1999 in an effort to restore coaster brook trout, a native trout that spawns in Whittlesey Creek and spends its adult life in Lake Superior. The Coaster Classroom Trail will be a new trail that winds its way up the small hillside near the coaster classroom interpretive center, down through a small cattail wetland, across a bridge over a…
Find out more »September 2022
Ocoee Ranger District, Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee – Volunteer Vacations 2022
The John Muir National Recreation Trail is a 16 mile trail along the north bank of the Hiwassee River, a large beautiful river popular with rafters, kayakers, and canoeists as well as fly fishermen as this exciting river plunges out of the Hiwassee Gorge. The trail extends from the TN/NC state line to Reliance, TN. This trail is very popular with day hikers, who can enter and exit the trail at several sites. Most of the trail is also concurrent…
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