Blogging the North Country Trail
by admin on October 5, 2011
Welcome! The NCTA’s Insight blog is your source for extended coverage and inside information on what’s happening on and around the North Country Trail.
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Latest issue of the MN newsletter is now available
by mdavis on April 23, 2012
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 to Maplewood State Park)
- Our featured partner: Minnesota DNR Division of Forestry and Mark Carlstrom, Park Rapids Area Supervisor
- Chapter updates: LLC, STN, and ITM (including trail sections in the Chippewa National Forest in need of adopters)
LLC Volunteer Karen Stenberg hiking in the Superstition Mountain Wilderness, AZ
- Volunteer profile: Karen Stenberg of the Laurentian Lakes Chapter
- The spring-summer 2012 events calendar
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Trail Alert: Parker, PA
by admin on February 24, 2012
Bridge Closure in Parker PA
The bridge over the Allegheny River in Parker will be closed for 8 months. Follow Route 268 north from Parker and cross the river on Route 58 at Foxburg. 58 will rejoin the route of the NCT at Callensburg.
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Hike the Hill 2012 Final: What we learned
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 [...]
Hike the Hill: Day 4 Update
By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 10:00am Wednesday featured another busy day of Hill visits and federal agency meetings for NCTA Director of Trail Development Andrea Ketchmark and myself. A beautiful day in DC–sunny, cloudless and low 50′s–as a contrast to our rugged red plaid north country winters…well, maybe less so this year! Anyway, visiting Members of Congress is [...]
Hike the Hill: Day 3 update
By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 7:00am Highlights of Tuesday’s Hike the Hill include meetings with the offices of 8 Congressmen representing districts through which the NCNST passes, a meeting with Vermont Senators Leahy and Sanders staff about the eastern terminus extension, and a meeting at Interior with Will Shafroth, who heads up the President’s America’s Great Outdoors program [...]
Trail Alert – Allegheny River Trail – PA02 S Map Segment
From Dave Adams: The Parker Truss Bridge will be closed from March 1 through mid-November for rehabilitation and painting. Northbound NCT hikers normally use this bridge to access the Allegheny River Trail on the East side of the river and then hike north to Foxburg, etc. Trail detour is to hike north along W berm [...]
Hike the Hill Recap: Day 2
By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 6:00am Monday turned our to be Budget Day in DC–the day when the President delivers his next year’s budget proposal to the Hill. Not a great time to be scheduling meetings with Congressional offices–all the focus and energy is on the budget and what it means to states/districts and political positions and whose [...]
Hike the Hill Update from Washington, DC
By Bruce Matthews, NCTA Executive Director 7:54am ET We’re in Washington this week for the annual Hike the Hill, a gathering of the National Trails System representatives visiting Members of Congress as well as leaders in the federal agencies (National Park Service, Forest Service) that administer the trails. Andrea Ketchmark (NCTA’s Director of Trail Development) and myself are here, [...]
Trail Alert: Warner Creek Pathway, MI
Michigan Map MI-06 Cedar Creek Road to Charlevoix just hiked last week I ran in to a problem after crossing Jordan river road the second time heading to M-32 on th warner creek pathway – the lake has flooded over and preety much knocked the trail right out. Couldn’t get through and had to back track [...]
Columbiana County, Ohio
From Brad Bosley…..The bridge on the North Fork of Little Beaver Creek and on Pancake-Clarkson Road west of the PA Gamelands 285 trail is open agan to traffic with all construction completed and hikers can now cross the creek again heading West. The bridge at Beaver Creek State Park which was under construction this summer [...]
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