The North Country Trail Association will once again be participating in the Outdoor Adventure Expo hosted this weekend by Midwest Mountaineering in Minneapolis, MN.  The Star of the North Chapter will be hosting the NCTA booth along with the Kekekabic Trail Club and Border Route Trail Association.  Our Superior Hiking Trail Association friends are usually […]

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 […]