Courses

Read descriptions of all Trail U courses below.
Course Title Course Description Course Level
Tread & Drainage Workshop

Trail Conference staff working on tread and drainage at the Catskill Interpretive Center.Tread and drainage is creating a pathway surface that keeps water off the trail and people on it resulting in sustainability. 

This course helps you gain or brush up on techniques to keep a trail from becoming a gulley.  These techniques include sidehill trail construction, utilizing sustainable grades, and ways to shed water off the trail.  Drainage structures such as dips, knicks, swales, and waterbars and their construction are also a focus of this topic.

Please register.  Space is limited.
Tread Construction and Repair Workshop

Our main goal with tread construction is to create a trail surface that keeps water off the trail and people on it resulting in sustainable trail systems. 

 

This course helps you gain or brush up on techniques to construct a sustainable trail and perform tread maintenance to keep the trail in good shape. These techniques include sidehill trail construction, utilizing sustainable grades, and implementing natural drainage features to shed water off the trail. 
 

By completing this Trail Conference University [link to landing page] course, you are one step closer to earning your Trail Crew Master Builder and Trail Maintainer Extraordinaire badge! Click here to learn more about Trail Conference University.
Web Infrastructure: -Insert Title- Workshop

New York - New Jersey Trail Conference logoThe online Trails Database provides for the management and administration of trails, segments, volunteer assignments, changes, new trail and segment additions.

This hands-on workshop introduces the new features and walks through the process. Participants will walk away knowing how to update their trails, segments, assign Maintainers and to view their online SMS reports.

  • Prerequisite: Website login with appropriate permissions.
  • Participants are encouraged to bring their laptop if available.  
  • Registration and participation is limited to the role appropriate for this workshop.