The election on Tuesday and the impending January shakeup in Congress has some NCT supporters thinking about the fate of the NCT’s Arrowhead Re-route legislation. A comment on the Arrowhead Re-route legislation from the Hiker Yahoo Group… Posted by: “Derek Lamparty” Thu Nov 4, 2010 1:55 pm (PDT) “It would have to go through before the new congress […]

The Itasca Moraine Chapter has just finished flagging a roughly 6-mile, double loop trail system with spurs and connectors around scenic Waboose Lake in Minnesota’s Paul Bunyan State Forest.  Currently, the NCT traverses the NE corner of Waboose Lake and there’s a spur trail to a backcountry campsite located at the end of a peninsula […]

Written by Dan Watson, NPS’ Volunteer Coordinator for the North Country and Ice Age National Scenic Trails The National Park Service (NPS) partnered with the North Country Trail Association (NCTA) again in FY10 for a very successful year of volunteer efforts. The North Country NST Annual Activity Report for FY10 shows 770 volunteers (down from […]