VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – North Country Trail Association’s Sheyenne River Valley Chapter has opened their Sheyenne River Valley Challenge program.
This new program is designed to challenge new people to get involved with the North Country National Scenic Trail (NCT) – the nation’s longest hiking trail – and the volunteers who build and maintain it in the Sheyenne River Valley.
The public is invited to take on the Sheyenne River Valley Challenge, a new program started by the Sheyenne River Valley (SRV) Chapter of the North Country Trail Association (NCTA). Participants have a variety of ways of getting more engaged that range from hiking the NCT on their own, sharing social media posts with their friends, joining a Chapter hike, joining the Chapter as a NCTA member, to adopting a trail section to maintain for a year. Participants earn points for the more challenges they complete and people become eligible by passing 200 points. Challenge winners will be selected next August 1st for the cash grand prize and other prizes. More details on the Challenge – including registration and log forms can be found online at https://northcountrytrail.org/
Becky Heise, President of the SRV Chapter, says “We’re hoping that this Challenge will be the invitation to get more people introduced to the Trail and to the group that builds, maintains, promotes, and protects it in our area. We’re looking for more people to become engaged in our efforts and to discover the beauty of the Sheyenne River Valley found along the NCT when exploring it on foot.”
North Country Trail Association volunteers are the lifeblood of the North Country National Scenic Trail (NCT) – the nation’s longest hiking trail which extends 4,800-miles from Lake Sakakawea State Park east all the way to the Appalachian Trail in Vermont. People may learn more about the NCT in North Dakota at https://northcountrytrail.org/
More information on the Challenge may be found online at https://northcountrytrail.org/