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Great crew for our April trail work! Thanks to our board member Roger Lilly for leading the team. Thanks also to Linda, April and Alex. And special thanks to our safety supervisor Sheldon dog. Hopefully (grant money pending) we can finish up the walkway and cover the mud holes. Our next trail work date is […]

HOH is gearing up for another season of trail work in the WV Highlands. If you’d like to stay in the loop, please sign up for our trail updates here. Expect bimonthly email updates. As any trail user knows, the rhododendron and mountain laurel never rests! Most of our trail work efforts are lopping and clearing

 Leaf Peepers season is in full swing here in the Potomac Highlands. We want to say thank you to everybody who entered our Headwaters Trail Map Raffle. Ironically, a random drawing from the hat landed our board president, Dan Lehmann, as the winner of the framed map! Lucky you, Dan. Many thanks to everyone who

Approved by WVDNR in June 2019, our proposed Headwaters Trail will link Canaan Valley Resort State Park with Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, our nation’s 500th National Wildlife Refuge. With preliminary trail inspection done, we expect this trail connector to cost ~$100,000.00. We have launched a raffle for our 4’x5′ comprehensive area trail map that was professionally

Friends of Blackwater (FOB) received over $800,000 to build a suspension bridge over the Blackwater River near Douglas Falls, just outside of Thomas, WV. The project aims to link Thomas and Davis with an 8 mile trail that will connect the Monongahela National Forest with Blackwater Falls State Park. They will also put interpretive signage

Lots of people are going stir crazy with stay at home orders and social distancing due to COVID-19. We can all take precautions to slow the spread of this virus by respecting other trail users when we cross paths. Consider moving off of the trail to let others pass. One of America’s biggest through trails,

 In 2019, the WV Legislature passed Senate Bill 317, which allows for the creation of the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority. This is modeled after the popular Hatfield-McCoy Trail in southern WV, which allows for private landowners to be freed from liability for trail users by being covered under the State of WV’s insurance policy. Friends of

Another trail map kiosk was completed by Appalachian Dirt in November, 2019. We are updating our map files and will likely install the map in Spring 2020, along with a map from Highlands Trail Foundation, which is working to complete a rail trail that will go from Elkins, WV, to Mt. Storm, WV, passing just by

As of summer 2019, our proposed Headwaters Trail has been approved by the WVDNR. This is a major step in our goal to complete our Core Loop Trail and we are eager to move forward with this new section, which will connect Canaan Valley State Park with the new Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge Visitor

We also have been strengthening our partnership with Blackwater Bicycle Association (BBA), another local trails nonprofit. Below you can see some of the fresh corduroy we laid down to navigate a large mud hole. Some of our trail work efforts were met with vibrant community support. We partnered with REI on June 22, 2019, for a trail work