Northwest Park

This is a tough time of the year, too nice to be indoors but the trails are too soft to enjoy. Patience trail lovers....Patience!!!

Trails groomed! Low hanging branches shaken, and downed branches cleared!

Ski trail also groomed and looks amazing. Get out and enjoy!

The day after Christmas and Santa is still working to deliver some gifts to trail users. He knows CORBA has struggled to convey a few messages to trail users, and he also knows putting up ugly signs and fences isn't their favorite thing to do.

Simply follow the rules and the signs and fences come down. Please respect volunteers efforts to provide ALL trail users with the best possible experience.

Single track all groomed and ready to enjoy with snowshoes or fat bikes. Hopefully it sets up well with the cold weather, but for now low pressure and snowshoes are key!

CORBA Trails Need Your Help! We take pride in offering our users the best experience possible, and we’ve got some of the best volunteers anyone can ask for….we just need more of them! We are looking for eager, motivated, and able bodied individuals for the following activities. All qualified volunteers will receive training and MUST be given authorization prior to performing any activities.

Clearing downed trees with a chainsaw: Ideally we would get a group of people willing to help, and get them FISTA certified/trained by an outside organization. Experience running a chainsaw is required, all equipment and PPE provided by CORBA.

Mowing trails: CORBA uses walk behind DR mowers for the majority of trail mowing. It is a very physically demanding task, and may require transporting the CORBA DR mowers to trail systems.

Trimming Trails: CORBA uses string trimmers in areas that are difficult to reach with the DR mower. All equipment and PPE will be provided by CORBA.

Trail Builder (mechanized equipment)L We’ve got two awesome trail building machines, and not enough time to use them. If you’ve got the experience we would love to chat with you.

Email Trails Director Jon Strosahl anytime to learn more and put your hat in the ring at: [email protected]

Please help!! A pair of skate skis were mistakenly left behind in the parking area. The owner returned 20 minutes after realizing the mistake, and they were gone.

Please reach out so we can grt them back to their owner.

Trails are riding very well. Bound to be some loose sand in places from all the rain.

All trees clear...get out and enjoy.

If you groom it they will come!

Get out and enjoy, NWP has been groomed.

There were some keys laying on the hood of my vehicle when was done. I've got them for safe keeping. Reach out and we can arrange their return.

Trail Updates/Changes.

You might have noticed a few changes to trails and trail layouts. In anticipation of a new parking lot, Free Willie was rerouted further into the woods to avoid the trail being in close proximity to the new lot.

We also consolidated 4 of the Van Es single track entrances down to one single entrance. This is done to help ease confusion and make it easier to close trails during spring thaw.

Goat Path is also receiving some attention in anticipation of future events NWP. Also stay tuned as CORBA just placed a large order for rough sawn oak. BRING ON THE SKINNIES!!!

15 eager WipFli staff joined CORBA for an afternoon of trail work. Boy did they make amazing use of their time.

Users familiar with the trails will notice significant changes to Free Willie and Rally Road. I think many will be surprised and maybe a little disoriented at first, but it works out great! All the more reason to get out and explore the work volunteers from our community accomplished today. We think you'll love it.