Upper Valley Trails Alliance

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 2022 uvta worked on over 30 trail projects, building and improving over 80 miles of Trails in the region. Partnering with many towns, businesses, foundations, and organizations. Uvta organized over 200 volunteers totaling over 1,900 hours of work. Uvta staff and volunteers rebuilt three 30 foot bridges, two in the lyme town forest and one on the king arthur trail. Utva also made improvements to the faulkner trail and built a wheelchair accessible path and two new bridges at the lyme hill conservation area.

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. In 2022, uvta purchased additional signage and a trail counter for the greenway.

The passport to winter fun, uvta's nationally recognized program that promotes physical activity in the winter months served 4,500+ students in 27 elementary schools and 45 homeschool groups in 2022. Uvta's trail finder now provides information on over 850 trail systems and 5000 miles of Trails in Vermont and new hampshire with free online access. There were over 300,000 visitors to the website in 2022. Uvta offers a series of unique events in the Upper Valley including the tour de taste pedal picnic, and the stoaked trail race. Our summer program, Upper Valley high school trail corps brought 50 students from across the Upper Valley out on a 5-week trail crew program in summer 2022. These students provided 1800 hours of service and improved over 50 miles of Trails.