Hello Volunteer Adventurers and Friends, Our second annual North Country Trail Volunteer Adventure in Pennsylvania has come to an end and was successful thanks in part to you. Down in Slippery Rock Gorge, just south of Eckert Bridge in McConnell’s Mill State Park, I counted over 45 stone steps, a retaining wall, and a three […]

This past weekend, volunteers of the NCTA’s Itasca Moraine Chapter completed the Gage Lake boardwalk project south of the community of Lake George, MN.  This project involved building a 186′ boardwalk across an alder/black ash swamp west of where the NCT crosses the Schoolcraft River. Bruce Johnson, ITM Board Member from Park Rapids, led the […]

According to Rep. Oberstar’s office (as reported by Bruce Matthews), the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee’s sub-committee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands will be holding a hearing on H.R. 481 on July 8th.  When passed, this bill will enact the North Country Trail’s Arrowhead Re-route. For more info on the House National Parks, […]