NCTA utilizes Volunteer Vacations to recruit additional volunteers and accomplish much-needed work on the NCT in Minnesota and North Dakota There are segments of the NCT in both Minnesota and North Dakota that are completed but lack the local trail adopters to perform the required annual basic maintenance (e.g. mowing, lopping, maintaining signage).  Like is […]

A small crew of Volunteer Vacation participants recently helped to maintain 7 miles of the North Country Trail within the Chippewa National Forest in northcentral Minnesota.  Thanks go out to Frank Cadwell (MN), Robert Duffield (TX), and Rick Koenig (KS) for volunteering and also to co-crew leader Phil Nimps of the NCTA’s Star of the […]

By Bruce Matthews Your DC NCTA Advocacy Team spent last week in Washington carrying out our agenda on behalf of the North Country Trail. Myself, Andrea Ketchmark (Director of Trail Development) and Minnesota volunteer John Leinen (who also serves as the Partnership for the National Trails System treasurer) met with 40 different offices of Members […]