Volunteer will help with coastal trail projects in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. Projects will include repairing trail tread and drainage systems, re-grading trails, cutting back encroaching vegetation along trail corridors, hauling heavy materials, and maintaining and reconstructing trail features such as staircases, fences, and boardwalks.

Volunteers will be maintaining the surveyed boundary lines of the corridor of National Park Service lands the Appalachian Trail traverses. Maintaining the boundaries of public land along the Trail helps preserve the primitive experience that Appalachian Trail hikers seek Using survey maps and hand-held compasses, the crew will maintain the boundaries of NPS lands immersed in early fall foliage. Work involves bushwhacking along the boundary and using hand-held saws and loppers to clear a line of site between survey markers…

We will be hand building a section of new trail which will eventually wind its way over and meet up with Clyburn Ridge Loop Trail. The trail will be laid out on an old road bed and then will meander through a steeply forested area along ridges and sideslopes. All work will be done by hand, no mechanized labor will be used. Depending on length of trail laid, there will be a possibility of crew assisting with laying out and…

Volunteers will spend the week on a variety of trail projects on several different trails, including clearing and making new trails, building bridges and boardwalks, doing side-cuts, putting up signs, and if needed, installing water bars.

Volunteers will be building trail in moderate to steep terrain to extend the footpath of the Cumberland Trail in East Tennessee. The Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail (CTSST) is a backcountry hiking trail that extends from a northern terminus at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park across eleven Tennessee counties along the Cumberland Plateau, to a southern terminus at Signal Point, part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. Of 322+ planned miles of trail, over 215…

This will be a new trail developed at Inks Dam National Fish, a facility in Highland Lakes area of central Texas. The facility is located along the Colorado River (of Texas) directly below Inks Lake and at the northern end of Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. The trail would be built along the Colorado River following the shore to allow greater recreational usage of facility. The development of this trail will allow greater access to the river that is underutilized by…

Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge is situated in a bottomland hardwood forest. Volunteers will be working on trail maintenance on the Knobby Knees and Great Egret Ridge Trails. These trails offer scenic views of symphonies of knobby knees peeking through the silent, still waters of the backwood swamps, Spanish moss hanging overhead in the bald cypress trees, and, if one is quiet enough, alligators and other fauna peering back from the waters below Palmer Bayou Boardwalk. While the trails in…

This project will focus on re-routing a section of the 40 mile Red Leaves Backpacking Trail, within the 48,000 acre Natchez Trace State Park and Forest. Volunteers will learn about sustainable trail design, trail maintenance, and hone their trailbuilding skills utilizing various tools including Pulaskis and Mcleouds. The new trail segment will be built near the scenic 58 acre Cub Creek Lake. Trailbuilding each day will be moderate with hikes of less than one mile to the work site. Volunteers…