As you hike into the woods on the North Country Trail, your mind begins to ease. The sure path ahead of you is calming and reassuring: You have got a place to go if you need it. You start to feel a part of something much bigger as each blue blaze guides you to the […]
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Crews finish their hard work to restore the Kekekabic Trail
Recently, a significant downfall was cut from across the Kekekabic Trail, an unofficial portion of the NCNST within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern MN. It was the last tree that fell across the western 15 miles of the Kek during last summer’s very strong windstorms to be cut. These storms left […]
North Country Trail in Fort Custer National Cemetery
by Kenny Wawsczyk, Michigan Regional Trail Coordinator, photos courtesy of Chief Noonday Chapter. Across seven states the North Country Trail has the privilege to traverse through a wide variety of properties, from large Forest Service land to small parcels in urban areas. In Kalamazoo County there’s a unique property that the NCT is allowed to […]