ITA's 2023 volunteer schedule is out for signups for the public! We have one-day, weekend, and weeklong projects of varying degrees of difficulty scheduled across the state. We also have six projects scheduled for our Youth Trail Crew Program and six for our Women in the Wild Program. If you're interested in learning more about what volunteering looks like, check out our volunteer FAQs. Here are just a few ... Read More

Alisa Rettschlag is an ITA super volunteer! She and her husband Gregg have been volunteering with ITA for a number of years and last year she took the plunge into crew leading AND teaching our Backpacking 101 class. It's easy to see she has a passion for teaching volunteers new things. She helped lead ITA's first Backpacking 101 trail project last year (and slogged through a very wet weekend with ... Read More

On March 1, our 2023 volunteer trail project schedule of 60+ projects will be released! Members (anyone who has donated to ITA in the past year) will be able to sign up to volunteer for projects on a first come, first served basis for most projects. Maybe you’re asking yourself, “Do people really rush to volunteer for trail work?” The answer is YES! Despite the chance of unseasonable snow, ... Read More

Idaho high school seniors must complete a “senior project” as part of their graduation requirements. While the criterion for completion varies from school to school, the basic requirement is that a senior take on a project, learn about it in-depth, then complete it by a certain date. Levi Armichardy, a student at Council High School in west-central Idaho, chose to focus on trails, something he is passionate about, and ... Read More

There a good reason why ITA crew leader Barry Miller was given the award of Crew Leader of the Year in 2022- he led three projects, one of them being a backpacking trip as part of our Youth Trail Crew program. It’s a lot to take a group of youth into the backcountry to do trail work– even more so to teach them how to backpack at the same ... Read More

Happy (almost) New Year to you and yours! We want to take this time at the end of the year to reflect on what an awesome year 2022 was for trails because of your support. We put together this video to celebrate the year: Our New Years resolution: do even more to keep Idaho’s hiking trails open for all! Thank you to each and every one of ... Read More

By Pam Bond, ITA Vice President of the Board and Crew Leader Pam Bond and other volunteers flying into the Cabin Creek airstrip to begin a week of trail maintenance. I didn’t realize, until I sat down and gave it a good think, that education is ingrained in all that Idaho Trails Association does.  Every part of our organization’s fabric provides an opportunity for someone to learn something ... Read More

Photo Credit: Dave Beck By Melanie Vining, Executive Director The Sheep Creek Trail, from Windy Saddle in the Seven Devils Mountains to the Snake River in Hells Canyon, was cleared for the first time in years this past fall and spring. Three friends and I planned a two-day hike from Windy Saddle to Pittsburgh Landing for early October to see this “slice of Hells Canyon”, from 7600 ... Read More

Join us on #GivingTuesday, a day to come together around the causes you care about and communities you want to lift up. Idaho Trails Association is raising support to fund trail projects across Idaho in 2023. We want to inspire more communities and volunteers to come together to make their trails better and share our vision of seeing many more miles of Idaho’s trail network cleared and accessible. We ... Read More

ITA's mission is "keeping Idaho's hiking trails open for all". We believe there is a trail for everyone, somewhere, be it deep in the Gospel Hump Wilderness or a mile outside of Sandpoint. I recently learned there is even an ADA-accessible wilderness trail outside Ketchum! I believe our work stewarding Idaho trails should be open TO all; one way we have focused on that goal is through creation of ... Read More