The latest issue (Spring 2014) of the Call of the North newsletter is now available (PDF, 1.4MB).  In it, you’ll read about… an update on the forthcoming Minnesota NCT guidebook an update on the Minnesota Hiking Celebration event an article on the proposed ND Clean Water Wildlife & Parks Amendment an article on essential oil insect […]

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 […]