Trail Events Calendar
May
May 4 - Summer Welcome Party in Page
Come out to the Antelope Point Marina Summer Welcome Party! From 10 AM to 3 PM there will be live
music, BBQ, booths, raffle prizes, stand up paddleboard and wakeboard demos on the docks.
There will be an Arizona Trail Hike from the Utah border - shuttle service available to the
trailhead. Call (928) 645-5900 (ext 5064) to sign up for the hike. Come out to the beautiful
Gateway Community of Page, Arizona and celebrate the outdoors! To see a copy of their brochure,
click here.
May 4 - Catalina State Park Anniversary Celebration
Catalina State Park on the north side of Tucson is celebrating their 30th anniversary on May 4th.
There will be hikes, music, food, kids activities and much more. For all the details on this fun
event, check out their brochure here.
May 11 - Saguaro National Park
Tucson area mountain bikers are invited to join us for a few hours of trail work in Saguaro
National Park on Saturday, May 11 (7 am – 11 am). We’ll be digging footers for cribbing walls
to protect the Hope Camp Trail (recently opened to mountain bikes) from erosion, trimming back
brush, and doing some minor tread repair.
Saguaro National Park is one of the only National Parks in the United States that encourages mountain bikes on trails, and by volunteering a few hours of your time you will help strengthen the relationship between the Park and the MTB community. Let’s show the rest of the country that bikes belong on trails, and members of the mountain bike community are committed, active stewards of the land.
Meet at 7 am at the Camino Loma Alta Trailhead. After a safety meeting and briefing on the project we’ll hike into the work site and get dirty for a few hours. Lunch will be provided at 11 am. See you there!
Please RSVP with Matt Nelson, Executive Director of the Arizona Trail Association: .
May 18 - Arizona Trail Running & Hiking Series - Pine
Food, drinks, prizes, gear and unforgettable experiences await hikers and runners
in this adventurous series of trail running and hiking events along the Arizona
National Scenic Trail. Proceeds benefit the Arizona Trail Association. You can
register at active.com.
For more information, visit On Your Left!
Fitness or call (520) 241-9141, or go to this page
on our website.
June
June 1 - National Trails Day Work EventPolish your trail-building skills on this multi-use connector trail to the Arizona Trail in the Flagstaff area. This annual Forest Service event will occur on the Kelly Motorized Trail which will intersect the AZ Trail on the resupply route northwest of Fisher Point. Preregistration IS NOT required. Just come! For more information: contact or . The event is co-sponsored by Coconino Trail Riders. 8 a.m. sign in at Kelly System south of Lake Mary Road near FR687. Volunteers must have: work gloves, water, boots, long pants, long-sleeve shirt, bike helmet, (appropriate weather gear).
Lunch is provided! Great time guaranteed. An interactive map of the work area can be found here.
June 8 - Mormon Lake Lodge Outdoor Festival
National Get Outdoors Day
You are invited to attend the FREE Mormon Lake Lodge Outdoor Festival and celebrate
National Get Outdoors Day. The event runs from 10 AM to 3 PM at Mormon Lake Lodge.
For all the details, check out the festival fact sheet.
June 8-14 - Kaibab Plateau South
Lynn's annual work-vacation clearing dead fall, pruning, and trail maintenance. Due to the
distance most have to travel and primitive camping this is a fluid work event
allowing time to also get to enjoy the beauty of the north rim. For more information
and to sign-up, contact Lynn at
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July
July 13-14 - Mormon Lake & Walnut Canyon
Plan to join Segment Stewards Andrea and David Michaels, Gay and Gary Hohner, and
Marlene and Mel Betani for yet another fun weekend work event on the Arizona Trail
on Segments 30E and 31A Tail. Sponsored by the Arizona Trail Association and the
Flagstaff Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest on the Arizona Trail
Walnut Canyon and Mormon Lake Passages southeast of Flagstaff, we will be doing
both a reroute and maintenance. The former will require a 2+ mile hike in and out
(without tools). We will start work at 8 am on Saturday and work till 3 pm; Sunday
we will start at 7:30 and work until 11:30.
- Primitive camping (with porta-johns, no water)
- Tools & hard hats provided
- Saturday worksite lunch provided
- Saturday evening potluck
August
August 3-4 - Coconino RimCome join Tom Coulson in trail maintenance on this section of the Arizona Trail south of Grandview Point near the Grand Canyon. This work will be trail MAINTENANCE only from Grandview Lookout Tower south in the tall pines. This area had a small fire last summer. Great views and dispersed camping in the National Forest. We’ll be reworking tread that burned and removing downed trees.
The work will be all day Saturday and Sunday (optionally) until noon. Overnight accommodations would be to camp in the National Forest (dispersed camping) or you could stay in the village of Tusayan about 16 miles west of the work site.
To get there: Go north from Williams on State Highway 64 to Tusayan (just outside the south gate of the Grand Canyon). As soon as you enter town, at the 1st "round-a-bout" take a right turn (east) on forest road 302. This road is passable for cars in good weather—it is smooth and graded. Follow FR 302 east (no turnoffs) for about 8.5 miles to a fork where it goes right on FR301 or left to stay on 302. Stay on 302 about 4 miles to the Grandview Lookout Tower. The group campsite is at the junction of 302 and 310 (the Coconino rim road) ½ mile south of the Grandview fire tower. You’ll see the campsite before you get to the junction. We’ll do the group safety talk and discuss the work plan at 7:30 or so.
Bring gloves, snacks and hats. ATA and the Forest Service will provide the tools and instructions. It will be great to see you all on this pristine section of the Arizona Trail. Great mountain biking on this section too!
If you choose to enter thru GCNP you’ll have to go thru the south gate and possibly pay an entrance fee. If you enter on FR 302 (as outlined above) you are not in the park and there is no fee.
Call Tom Coulson if you have questions at (480) 326-0459 or (928) 451-2220.
September
September 27-29 - ATA Rendezvous at Mormon Lake LodgeThe Arizona Trail Association will again be holding the annual rendezvous at Mormon Lake Lodge. All the details and how to register for this great event will be coming soon.
September 29 - Arizona Trail Running & Hiking Series - Mormon Lake
Food, drinks, prizes, gear and unforgettable experiences await hikers and runners
in this adventurous series of trail running and hiking events along the Arizona
National Scenic Trail. Proceeds benefit the Arizona Trail Association. You can
register at active.com.
For more information, visit On Your Left!
Fitness or call (520) 241-9141, or go to this page
on our website.
October
November
November 2-7 - 14th Biennial National Scenic & Historic Trails Conference
The 14th Biennial National Scenic & Historic Trails Conference will be held at the
Westward Look Resort and on the trails near Tucson. Hosted by the Partnership for
National Trails System, this conference will be filled with workshops, outings,
speakers, entertainment and much more! For more information, visit www.pnts.org
or contact
or call 608-249-7870, ext 2.
Hone your trail maintenance and building skills by joining work events sponsored by those
organizations who help build and maintain the Arizona Trail:
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Please contact the event coordinator for more information about the work event (time & location). Locations listed above are subject to change, and exact locations may not be known at the time of the calendar printing. Multiple day projects - volunteers are welcome any day, or all days (unless backpacking/riding to the site is required).
ATA provides all tools. Please bring work gloves, water, and lunch. We recommend that you wear sturdy boots, long sleeves and pants, sunscreen, and a hat. Overnight camping is often primitive (no facilities). Please bring your own camping/backpacking equipment and food (unless otherwise noted).
Trail maintenance and construction may include any of the following: brushing (pruning vegetation), removing rock & debris, signing, building rock cairns; construction or improvement of: trail tread, erosion control structures (water bars, drainage dips), switchbacks, removing stumps/roots, etc. Difficulty of work is easy to moderate, distance to work site should also be considered. Work event coordinators will provide instruction.
To make corrections or add an event, please contact the calendar editor at .