The latest issue (PDF, 1.4MB) of the Call of the North, Minnesota’s NCTA newsletter is now available.  In it, you’ll find… An update on the Laurentian Lakes Chapter’s busy trail-building year using a DNR Legacy Trail grant An update on the new effort to jumpstart the development of the NCT in Otter Tail County (Frazee […]

By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 9:00am Andrea Ketchmark, NCTA’s Director of Trail Development and I wrapped up our 2012 participation in Hike the Hill this week. See the previous Blogs and Facebook postings for the specifics. Here are some of our takeaways from this year–what we learned, what we might do about it. In […]

By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 10:00am Wednesday featured another busy day of Hill visits and federal agency meetings for NCTA Director of Trail Development Andrea Ketchmark and myself. A beautiful day in DC–sunny, cloudless and low 50’s–as a contrast to our rugged red plaid north country winters…well, maybe less so this year! Anyway, visiting Members of Congress is […]