This week CATS is pleased to have hikers and retirees from across the country volunteering their time, expertise, and energy to help keep our most popular hiking trail, Wildway Overlook Trail, in good shape. The group is focusing on preventing potential erosion problems by … [Read more...] about Volunteers from Across Country Help CATS Trail
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Help Save Ranger Trail
Our friends at the organization "Friends of Pok-O-Moonshine" have asked CATS to help spread the word about an important project at one of our area’s most popular trails. Please see the letter below from the group's coordinator, David Thomas-Train, and consider making a donation … [Read more...] about Help Save Ranger Trail
CATS Trails Tales: Charlotte Story
This Thursday, we’ll go to the Bobcat Trail to work on it and the Field and Forest Trail. We’ll put up the trailhead sign so people can easily see where the trail starts. And then we’ll do a maintenance hike—more fun than you can ever imagine. Meet at Dogwood Bakery at 9:00 … [Read more...] about CATS Trails Tales: Charlotte Story
Celebrate Champlain Area Trails on June 7
The Fifth Annual Celebrate Champlain Area Trails Event will be here before you know it! Join us NEXT SATURDAY, June 7, at the Barn at Blockhouse Farm in Essex as we celebrate five years of making trails and saving land in the Champlain Valley. This annual day of hiking and … [Read more...] about Celebrate Champlain Area Trails on June 7
CATS’ Grand Hike A Great Success
It started with a brief conversation last January between Chris Maron of Champlain Area Trails and Rick Dalton, owner of the Essex Inn and CEO of College for Every Student (CFES). CATS had a successful "hamlet-to-hamlet" hike the previous October and the idea of an "inn-to-inn" … [Read more...] about CATS’ Grand Hike A Great Success