Outdoor Retailer (OR) is the largest trade show serving the outdoor industry community of retailers, designer and manufacturers, but this event also serves as a place for stakeholders, like the North Country Trail Association, to be represented in the important conversations facing the outdoor community. by Andrea Ketchmark, NCTA Executive Director The NCTA has […]
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NCTA Says Goodbye to the Schoolhouse
The founding of the North Country Trail Association can be traced back to a group of visionary volunteers sitting around a kitchen table in a historic schoolhouse in White Cloud, Michigan. by Andrea Ketchmark, NCTA Executive Director For close to 40 years, the Birch Grove Schoolhouse has served the North Country Trail community in […]
Chippewa National Forest: Trail Section Highlight
The nearly 667,000-acre Chippewa National Forest in north central Minnesota currently hosts 61 miles of the North Country National Scenic Trail. It also has a unique history. Following political advocacy by the Minnesota Federation of Women’s Clubs, concerned about the wholesale loss of forests in northern Minnesota, the Minnesota Forest Reserve was created in 1902 […]