Trail Report

Happy Mud Season! ACT’s trails at Cooley-Jericho Community Forest, Foss Forest, and Bronson Hill are temporarily closed for mud season as we enter the month of April. Please respect mud season closures as we try to protect the trails during their most sensitive time of year, we promise your experience this summer will be better because of it! There are a number of other options available during mud season for continuing your recreation routine, including rail trails, gravel roads, the Franconia Art Walk, and many of NH’s ski areas are still open and ready for spring skiing and riding, just to name a few. Be sure to keep an eye on our Trails Updates page here (insert link) once things dry up to see if your favorite ACT trail has re-opened for the summer.

Speaking of summer, Conor, ACT’s Trails Manager, is beginning to plan opportunities for volunteer trail building and maintenance on ACT properties. For ACT’s 25th Anniversary, we have set our sights on constructing and opening 2.5 miles of new non-motorized trails this year, and we need your help! If you are interested in building new trails or taking care of existing ones, send an email to [email protected] and we will put you on our contact list for workday opportunities. No experience required, just bring some work gloves, your friends and family, a positive attitude, and a desire to get dirty out in New Hampshire’s North Country!

Stay dry out there!

Trail Reporting

ACT’s trails rely on a team of dedicated, hard-working volunteers and maintainers to continue providing recreational opportunities and access to the outdoors in the North Country year-round. The link below allows the general public, as well as our volunteers to keep the ACT team up-to-date on current trail conditions. If you are out and about on one of our trails and notice something that doesn’t look quite right, (tree down, washout, mud hole, overgrown vegetation, etc.) please go ahead and let us know on the “HAZARDS” page. Conor, our Trails Manager, will address the hazard and organize an opportunity to fix these problems with volunteers who wish to join.

Thank you for your continued support and excitement for outdoor recreation. See you on the trails!

Reporting Table

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17mOuLR6ptI0srsjPedrjqdjDvOxj_3756gSVoGQRYLM/edit?usp=sharing

ACT Needs Tools! 

ACT’s Trails Program is growing and needs both hand and power tools to better maintain and grow our local trail systems. Do you have some equipment in the garage that you no longer use? We’d love to help you clear out some space! 

Refer to the list below for the tools that we are most in need of.  

If your tools are old(er), dull, or a bit rusty -- no problem -- we can fix them right up! However, we ask that you do not donate tools that are broken or are no longer functioning for their intended use.  

If you think you may have some things to donate, please contact Trails Program Manager Conor at [email protected] to coordinate. 

Hand Tools: 

• Loppers 

• Hand Saws 

• Rogue or Hazel-type Hoes 

• Pick Mattocks 

• Cutter Mattocks 

• Axes or Pulaskis 

• Rakes 

• Sledgehammers 

• Silky saw

Power Tools: 

• Chainsaw 

• Weedwhacker

Other:  

• Chainsaw Chaps: gently used and in good shape 

• Work Gloves: unused  

• Hard Hats: unexpired and in good shape 

• Mill Bastard Files: in good shape 

• Wire Brushes 

• Wheelbarrow  

• 5-gallon Buckets

• Tarp

• Webbing

• Toolbelt / holster

• Safety Glasses

Lastly, we need volunteers to swing these tools! If you’re interested in helping on ACT trails, please reach out to Conor at [email protected] for more information.