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Join us for our next Trailmakers Hui featuring Paul Talley, Executive Director of the Colorado Trail Foundation. Paul will share his experiences working with volunteers to build and maintain trails in the United States.
- Thursday 20 November
- 12 noon
Topic: Trail building insights from the Colorado Rockies
Paul Talley has 20 years of experience leading volunteer organisations across Colorado, Kansas, and Texas. Before joining the Colorado Trail Foundation in 2024, he served as Executive Director of Wilderness Trek, a nonprofit backcountry outfitter. He produced an award-winning documentary about his solo bikepacking journey along the Colorado Trail.
Paul will discuss:
- The mission and work of the Colorado Trail Foundation
- What works—and what doesn’t—in volunteer trail building
- How the foundation secures support for funding, logistics and legislation
- The foundation’s relationship with recreational users and the broader trail community
This is a unique opportunity to learn from one of America’s leading voices in trail stewardship.
This session will be an interactive session — we welcome people to share your local experiences and ask questions.
Please pass on this invite to those who might be interested.
Hei konā mai,
Bernice Prakash
Add your track to Plan My Walk
Plan My Walk is an excellent tool for finding the tracks you want to walk. It hosts over 1,800 tracks, including short walks, day walks and overnight tramps.
We can host the GIS and track description information for local community groups and trail trusts that do not have their own GIS capability. You need to provide us with a description of the track you maintain, plus contact details and a commitment to inform us of any changes in the track’s status or safety information walkers need to be aware of.
We will host all that information in our database, and Mountain Safety Council will automatically pull it through to appear on Plan My Walk.
Once we host the information, we can also share it with you as a map and track description that you can embed on your website.
To share your track with Plan My Walk, complete this survey form.
Trailmakers Map - Ngā Kaihanga Ara
This map is designed for volunteer trail groups or individuals creating and maintaining trails in their local area.
What are the benefits to your trail group of joining the map
- You can be visible to other trail groups in your area and across Aotearoa
- You can contact other groups about their experiences on projects that may be similar to yours
- Potential volunteers and donors can see groups in their region. (Our regional field advisors occasionally encourage potential volunteers to look at the map.)
- Government organisations such as councils and the Department of Conservation can more easily contact you.
- Adding your details to the map is easy!
The map provides a brief description of trailmaker groups and their work, indicates their locations, and offers guidance on how to contact them most effectively. This map is specifically for community volunteer groups that are building or maintaining trails and outdoor access.
Trailmaker network members frequently want to contact each other. This map enables people to connect with other community trailmaker groups and to see where they sit geographically within a national network.
Get support
Herenga ā Nuku regional field advisors are a great first port of call when you have trail-building questions. They have an incredible wealth of knowledge and will point you in the right direction.
Our website also has a lot of information. If you can not find a resource you want, please contact me.
