Upper Valley Trails Alliance Inc

Programs: Progress is being made on the mascoma river greenway, a proposed 4-mile extension of the northern rail trail from lebanon to west lebanon. Uvta plays a leadership role on the mascoma river greenway coalition. The campaign of $2. 25 million is complete and the trail will officially open in july 2018.

* the passport to winter fun, uvta's nationally recognized program that promotes physical activity in the winter months served 3,850 students in 28 elementary schools this year. Since 2007, over 30,000 students have participated in the program. * uvta offers a series of unique events in the upper valley like the lake morey skate-a-thon, tour de taste pedal picnic, and the stoaked trail race! * uvta hosted a trail connect forum in april 2017 attended by 75 community members to discuss the future of trails in the region. * now in its 5th year, the outdoor odyssey - upper valley high school trail corps will bring a diverse array of students from across the upper valley out on a 4-week trail crew program in summer 2017. 43 students participated in this nationally recognized program. * in partnership with vermont forest, parks, and recreation, uvta re-launched a new and improved trail finder in july 2015 (a comprehensive on-line trails database that offers detailed maps, trail descriptions, directions to trailheads, photos, length, permitted uses, and contact information for the trail owner and manager and features hundreds of trails in vermont and the upper valley of nh). Strong partnerships with vermont forests, parks and recreation, unh cooperative extension, national parks service, and the center for community gis has allowed us to promote over 450 trail systems encompassing nearly 5,000 miles of trails in vermont and new hampshire.

true to our alliance founding principles, we are working with a large number of upper valley communities and partners providing expertise and technical assistance for trail projects including:* in 2017 uvta worked on over 30 trail projects, building and improving over 70 miles of trails in the region. Partners included the montshire museum, cross rivendell trail, town of hanover, town of norwich, town of lyme, town of thetford, town of strafford, the sharon academy, town of bradford, hanover conservancy, upper valley land trust, eastman community association, quechee lakes landowners association and marsh billings park to name a few. *150 volunteers totaling 880 hours of service went into the projects.