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You can get an award just for hiking. The Keystone Trails Associations offers seven different awards for hiking the trails of Pennsylvania, including an award for kids under the age of 13! Award recipients are recognized at the annual KTA fall meeting. Interested? Click here to learn more.

 



 

 

Welcome to Keystone Trails Association, the statewide voice of Pennsylvania’s hikers!

OUR MISSION: To provide, preserve, protect and promote recreational hiking trails and hiking opportunities in Pennsylvania.


 

QUICK CLICKS:

Prowl the Sproul Hiking Weekend

Susquehanna Super Hike & Ultra Trail Run

Oaxaca, Mexico Hiking Trip

Couples' Trail Care Fundraising Weekend (Fallingwater)


 

 



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Morning mist at Pine Creek Gorge
Photo by Curt Weinhold
Our programs:

Trail Advocacy
  • We support measures that protect our hiking trails.
  • We oppose illegal ATV encroachment on public lands.
  • We oppose Sunday hunting.

Trail Protection

  • We train and support volunteers to work with land owners and land managers to secure more permanent access to hiking trails.

Trail Care

  • Each year we organize a minimum of nine trail care weekends, four week-long trail crews and three Code Orange one day events to build and maintain hiking trails in Pennsylvania.
  • Our Trail Care and Trail Crew volunteers contribute 3000 – 4000 hours of trail labor annually.
  • We provide training workshops on chainsaw safety, trail erosion control, rock work and wilderness first aid.

Local Club Trail Support

  • Our member clubs contribute another 20,000 - 30,000 hours of volunteer labor building and maintaining trails.
  • KTA provides grants to local clubs to fund the purchase of tools, equipment and materials.

Promotion of Hiking Trails and Hiking Opportunities

  • With DCNR, we co-sponsor Pennsylvania Hiking Week
  • We organize the Prowl the Sproul hiking weekend and full hiking programs at our spring and fall meetings.
  • We publish Pennsylvania Hiking Trails, the PA Appalachian Trail Guide, and other maps and guides

To share photographs, hiking stories, advocacy alerts, trail news, and more with other Pennsylvania hikers, "LIKE" Keystone Trails Association on Facebook!

 

 

 

Trail News

Partner Update: ATC

by Karen Lutz (presented at KTA's Spring 2013 Council Meeting)
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Know Your RULWA

By Steve Mentzer, Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy 
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Club Connection: Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy

By Todd Chambers  
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Doh! A Deer!

by John Beatty, KTA Member 
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Road-Runners Welcome!

Are you a hard-core hiker? An enthusiastic trail-runner? A road-runner with a desire to push yourself harder, on more challenging terrain, surrounded by nature's bounty?
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Maintainer's Corner: French Creek S.P.

by Ed Lawrence, Trail Care Chair
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Momentum Builds To Stop Gas Drilling On the Old Loggers Path

by Curt Ashenfelter, Executive Director
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DCNR to Hold Public Meeting June 3 on Possible Gas Development in Loyalsock State Forest, Lycoming C

May 22, 2013, Harrisburg – Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Richard Allan today announced that the department will hold a public meeting on Marcellus Shale issues in...
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Meet KTA's Intern: Kaira Loving

by Kaira Loving, KTA Intern
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Philadelphia Trail Club: Taking Steps

by Carol Beam, PTC President (reprinted from the May-June 2013 edition of the Philadelphia Trail Club Bulletin)
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