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2024 Volunteer Awards: Boots on the Trail

  The Boots on the Trail award is presented to volunteers who regularly lead hikes that are well-advertised and promoted to the public as a way of building NCTA membership and support for the trail. Recipients typically lead more than one hike per year, make them interesting by sharing their knowledge or being helpful to […]

2024 Volunteer Awards: Trail Maintainer

  The Trail Maintainer Award is presented to volunteers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication or achievements over a 3-year period or more in maintaining or restoring preexisting North Country Trail segment(s). Peter Bennett Peter is an incredibly dedicated trail maintainer and sawyer, having taken on many responsibilities beyond caring for his own adopted section. In […]

2024 Volunteer Awards: Trail Builder

  The Trail Builder Award is presented to volunteers whose work in trail planning, landowner negotiations, layout and design, and/or construction, have resulted in the development of outstanding new North Country Trail or facilities. Pete Bock Pete has maintained a three-mile segment for the Brule-St. Croix Chapter for at least nine years, and helps maintain […]