June 2 is the 15th annual National Trails Day, a day created by the National Hiking Society.
The hiking group bills it as the largest annual single-day trails and outdoor celebration in the country.
Nationwide hundreds of thousands of people are expected to go outdoors and participate in one of more than 1,000 events.
The Continental Divide Trail Alliance celebrates on May 31, the latest donation of private land easements from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the Continental Divide Trail.
That ceremony is in Rawlins, Wyo., but the trail passes just west of Great Falls, MT — it’s on the Divide — and you can go there and hike any time. The Anadarko easements go a long way toward completing the 3,100-mile trail.
National Trails Day helps individuals, communities and the environment.
Individuals benefit because the day promotes hiking’s health benefits.
Hiking gets your heart pumping, lungs expanding and muscles working. It relieves stress and hastens weight loss, it controls high blood pressure and helps prevent heart disease and diabetes. It is good for your joints.
National Trails Day fosters community-building. It brings together people from all ages and backgrounds, from toddlers to seasoned hikers who have logged thousands of miles.
It also provides local governments and trail clubs with volunteer sweat equity hours to restore and maintain trails. Last year volunteers spent more than 135,000 hours establishing, maintaining and cleaning-up nearly 1,700 miles of trail — labor worth an estimated $2.5 million.
National Trails Day raises public awareness about the environmental benefits of trails, which serve as conservation corridors, help protect plants and wildlife, and are classrooms for nature study. You really do connect with nature on a trail.
The hiking group bills it as the largest annual single-day trails and outdoor celebration in the country.
Nationwide hundreds of thousands of people are expected to go outdoors and participate in one of more than 1,000 events.
The Continental Divide Trail Alliance celebrates on May 31, the latest donation of private land easements from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the Continental Divide Trail.
That ceremony is in Rawlins, Wyo., but the trail passes just west of Great Falls, MT — it’s on the Divide — and you can go there and hike any time. The Anadarko easements go a long way toward completing the 3,100-mile trail.
National Trails Day helps individuals, communities and the environment.
Individuals benefit because the day promotes hiking’s health benefits.
Hiking gets your heart pumping, lungs expanding and muscles working. It relieves stress and hastens weight loss, it controls high blood pressure and helps prevent heart disease and diabetes. It is good for your joints.
National Trails Day fosters community-building. It brings together people from all ages and backgrounds, from toddlers to seasoned hikers who have logged thousands of miles.
It also provides local governments and trail clubs with volunteer sweat equity hours to restore and maintain trails. Last year volunteers spent more than 135,000 hours establishing, maintaining and cleaning-up nearly 1,700 miles of trail — labor worth an estimated $2.5 million.
National Trails Day raises public awareness about the environmental benefits of trails, which serve as conservation corridors, help protect plants and wildlife, and are classrooms for nature study. You really do connect with nature on a trail.
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