If you're looking for an excuse to start your summer outside, consider joining a National Trails Day event on June 7! This year WTA will team up with American Hiking Society to celebrate the 16th Annual National Trails Day. The AHS theme is "Join Us on the Trail", as an open invitation to connect Americans with their local hiking clubs, outdoor retailers, and local and federal land management agencies in order to experience everything the great outdoors has to offer.

WTA is hoping you will be one of those many Americans to join a Trail Maintenance work party on Saturday, June 7. And, not only is it National Trails Day, but it marks the first weekend of WTA's summer season, meaning we'll kick off our summer line-up of volunteer work parties up and down the Cascades and the Olympics that will continue throughout the summer.

Below is a list of where we'll be on June 7th, so please, Join us on the Trail!*

Join! Nat'l Trails Day on the Olympic Peninsula We'll continue our work on the South Fork of the Skokomish Trail. It is this trail's 101 birthday, but we hope a little maintenance will keep it looking even younger.
Join! Nat'l Trails Day at Silver Star Mount St Helens Nat'l Volcanic Monument. If you're looking for a place to spend your weekend, this is well worth the drive. We'll have several options of trails to work on in this area. Bring a tent and work both days!
Join! Nat'l Trails Day "Take-A-Hike" Trail Survey in the Mount Adams District. If you'd prefer to hike your favorite trail and collect important data on its' condition for the district, this is the event for you!
Join! Nat'l Trails Day at Horseshoe Bend in the Mount Baker District. A great early season trail for this district, we'll work on maintaining this short trail near Glacier.
Join! Nat'l Trails Day on the Boundary Trail at Mount Rainier Nat'l Park. The Park is still recovering from the 2006 storms, so WTA is back to help them keep up with maintenance and repairs. This trail in particular was not hit by the storm, but needs quite a bit of maintenance work to get it back to good condition.
Join! National Trails Day - Huckleberry Trail at Mount Rainier Nat'l Park. Mount Rainier is still recovering from the 2006 storms, so WTA is back to help them keep up with annual maintenance and repairs of trails.
Join! Nat'l Trails Day - Barclay Lake Trail in the Skykomish District. A great early season trail in the Skykomish district that generally needs some tread repair after winter slides and blowdown.
Join! Nat'l Trails Day in the North Bend Area We'll be continuing with the trail improvements to the very popular Franklin Falls and Wagon Road Trails.

*work party locations may change if snow is still lingering ...
Stay tuned for schedule changes and to see the full schedule at www.wta.org.