Trail Workdays & Crew Leaders

If you’d like to help build and maintain trail, we have a workday going on somewhere in the state almost every weekend of the year and on some weekdays too.

Below is a list of volunteer trail crew leaders in different areas. Please contact them for more information about upcoming workdays and how you can get involved. To find a date that works for you, search the calendar.

Workdays are sometimes new trail construction and sometimes maintenance of existing trail. Work may include using a rake and mattock (similar to a pickaxe) to dig new trail and remove small roots, clearing brush, moving logs, and picking up debris.

We will supply most of the tools for workdays, but extra loppers and mattocks are welcome.

Please wear work clothes and bring a bag lunch, plenty of water, work gloves, hiking boots, and sunscreen. Sorry no dogs allowed at our workdays for safety reasons. If you are under the age of 18, please consult us before attending workdays.

Below are two videos that provide pictures of work done by MST trail crews. The video about using a griphoist by Sandra Jacobi features certified sawyers who volunteer with our Falls Lake Trail Crew. The goal of this video is to help people learn to use a griphoist to safely remove large trees on the trail, but we caution viewers that this type of equipment should only be used by properly trained sawyers.