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Mark Your Calendars: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Looking for Help With Trail Work

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An upcoming trail day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park will focus on trail work in the park. NPS photo.

Ever get the urge to head into the mountains to make repairs or improvements to hiking trails? Well, if you like to do that kind of thing, the folks at Great Smoky Mountains National Park could use your muscles later this month.

On April 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the park will mark National Park Week with a community service project that will involve performing trail improvements to the Elkmont Nature Trail located at the Elkmont Campground near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

This community service project, underwritten by the National Park Foundation and the Coca Cola Foundation, will provide families and individuals an opportunity to do hands-on trail work. The Elkmont Nature Trail is an easy, three-quarter-mile self-guided loop. The project will include tasks for both youth and adults, from cutting back vegetation to using hand tools to repair sections of trail tread and create water bars.

The park will provide all the necessary equipment needed, including work gloves, for the project. Volunteers should come prepared to work for a day in the woods. It is suggested that participants dress in good sturdy foot wear and long pants.

Since volunteers will be working a full day, it will be necessary to pack a lunch and plenty of water. Youth volunteers must be accompanied by an adult and are required to be at least 10 years of age.

To attend this event, interested persons need to RSVP by April 19 to the Trails & Facilities Volunteer Coordinator, Christine Hoyer, at 828-497-1949 or [email protected].

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