National Trails Day is Saturday, June 7. Join volunteers from Trailwrights, Inc. at Mount Kearsarge’s Winslow State Park in Wilmot to help repair and improve the Winslow Trail from the Winslow State Park parking lot up to its junction with the Barlow Trail. It’s also a chance to learn how trail best-practices make life both easier and happier. For more information, visit Trailwrights.org.
Trailwrights, Inc. will be partnering with the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development and with the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge (SRK) Greenway Coalition to perform needed maintenance on the Winslow Trail. Bring gloves, lunch, good footwear, and other clothing of choice. No experience needed. Tools are supplied. Bring your headnet for probable blackfly intervention.
The Winslow Trail is “off” the SRK Greenway, which uses the longer but less rocky and slippery Barlow Trail to the same destination. But the Winslow-Summit-Barlow loop is one of the most popular trail loops in New Hampshire. It gets wear and tear by “over-loved syndrome.” Trailwrights, Inc. built the Barlow Trail with local helpers in 1997. And Trailwrights has come back and helped the SRK Greenway on the Barlow and Summit trails since then. We like Trailwrights people. Let’s help them help the trails.
Lincoln Trail in July
On Sunday, July 6, and Tuesday, July 8, prepare to help another group of trailworkers, the Student Conservation Association and their high school crew, as they work on the Lincoln Trail from Rollins State Park on the Warner side of Mount Kearsarge, on Greenway Trail #11. This event is part of our Quabbin-to-Cardigan summer — for more information, visit Q2Cpartnership.org. For more information and trail maps of the SRK Greenway, visit SRKG.org.