This season, ITA is hosting two projects in the Gospel-Hump Wilderness, a 206,000 acre wilderness that stretches from the Main Salmon River to the South Fork of the Clearwater, between Riggins and Grangeville. With the Frank Church River of no Return Wilderness to the South and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness to the East, the Gospel-Hump is part of the massive Central Idaho wilderness corridor. The name comes from Gospel and ... Read More

Our Trail Spotlight highlights trails across Idaho that are worth hiking! Ranging from one-day to multi-day trips, these recommendations are trails that ITA has recently cleared or a volunteer has hiked. Trail conditions can change quickly- swollen rivers can become impassable, windstorms can knock trees down across trails, and snow can come earlier than expected. Please take these recommendations as a jumping off place and do additional research (find ... Read More

PACK YOUR SUMMER! Starting June 20th and going through the end of the month, we'll be running an online auction full of awesome Idaho adventures. Get your bags packed and your boots ready! We'll be auctioning off a five-day rafting trip for two, a weekend pack trip in the Seven Devils, a backpacking adventure package including a tent donated by Six Moon designs, and many other exciting ways to ... Read More

The trails world lost a true friend in February 2022 with the sudden passing of John Platt. John was a lifelong hiker and mountaineer, an accomplished cyclist, a backcountry adventurer, and a devoted husband, father, brother and friend. John was also passionate about sharing the outdoors with anyone and everyone, and would give of his time and resources freely to help others discover the joy of being outside. In ... Read More

Lilly Ragan, tax accountant by day, serves as ITA’s Bookkeeper and a member of the Advisory Board. We are so grateful to Lilly for the many hours she spends crunching the numbers for ITA as well as working hard on trail maintenance projects! We appreciate Lilly’s constant smile (even after trudging MANY miles in the pouring rain on our recent Sheep Creek project!)  Lilly Ragan (left) on her ... Read More

National Trails Day is June 4th and we have three exciting ways you can celebrate trails with us! 1. 🥾Volunteer for a project! 🥾 We'll be hosting four trail maintenance projects June 4 across the state on trails in North, South, and East Idaho: Hawkins Loop in the Boise Foothills, Mickinnick near Sandpoint, Cherry Springs near Pocatello, and Purjue Canyon in the Owyhees. All of these are one-day trail ... Read More

By ITA Volunteer and Board Member Liz Bridges In the US, many of our most revered routes trace trails created by the native peoples of this continent. In Idaho, the Shoshone, Blackfoot, Paiute, Nez Perce and others had long established trails that connected spring foraging areas with summer hunting grounds, fall fishing stations with winter quarters. Over time, trails put in place by native peoples became roads and well-known ... Read More

Volunteers from a 2020 Little Queens River Trail project sawed many logs to clear this trail. But more work is needed to open up the Queens/Little Queens 30-mile loop. We have two projects scheduled on this lost trail and we are hoping to complete the loop this year in the Sawtooths! Idaho Gives has begun! Give back to the trails you love and the places you’ve ... Read More

If you’ve ever looked in the back of one of ITA’s tool trailers, you’ve probably seen a jumble of pulaskis and crosscuts, boxes of cooking equipment and eating utensils, and bags of camping gear and ITA hardhats. No matter how hard our crew leaders and staff worked to keep things organized, quick turnarounds between projects and bouncing around on backcountry roads meant our gear was constantly in a ... Read More