With April bringing drier weather conditions and warming temperatures, the folks with the Wampum Chapter of the North Country Trail Association are ready to head out for another season of trail work. The Chapter's trail range starts at McConnell's Mill State Park at the Lawrence/Butler County line and runs southwestward through Wampum to the Pennsylvania/Ohio State line near Negley, Ohio. The Chapter currently maintains approximately 20 miles of off-road trail with another 25 miles either under construction or in the planning and negotiating stages.
We are always welcoming volunteers who are interested in helping with maintaining current sections of the North Country Trail and helping to build the new sections the Chapter is working on. Current projects involve new trail construction on PA Gamelands 285 and the addition of a new vista spur trail over top of the Wampum Mines. We have maintaining opportunities all along the Chapter's trail range, and although the money is lousy (there is none) the sense of satisfaction derived from keeping the trail in good shape for hikers and backpackers is immense.
If you are interested in finding out more about the North Country Trail in the Wampum, PA area you can visit the Chapter website at: http://www.northcountrytrail.org/wam/index.htm. You can also take a look at the trail and trailwork photos we have posted at: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/558807334BbPxmS
We can add you to our trail work email notification list to let you know when and where we'll be heading out to work on projects - our email address is nctawampum@yahoo.com. We're also available to answer any questions you might have about adopting a section of the trail.
Hope to see you on the (North Country) trail!
Dave Brewer
Co Trail Work Coordinator
Wampum Chapter/NCTA
--- Backpacker Forum
This quote is from Dave Brewer of the North Country Trail Association, off the Backpacker forum! Thought you guys would be interested. I'm glad that they are keeping this trail maintained (even though they admit there is no money for this kind of thing), and hope some people volunteer to do help with the effort. If I could get off work I know I would!
