Trail Gang
Young Adults ages 14 and up may volunteer to assist Ranger Joe with getting our trails ready for the summer. The Trail Gang is a great way to spend time on the beautiful BH trails and rack up some Community Service hours for that college application.
2025 Trail Gang
Trail Gang 2025 was a massive success! We had over a dozen eager participants to help Ranger Joe clean up and clear trails. Trail Gang week 2 was hard at work on Spruce Mountain. They cleared and painted over 1.7 miles of trail, including sections from Black Bear through Beech Ridge and Dry Run, plus the newly created Henry Property trail. They also refreshed the paint on the Spruce Mt. Trail and enjoyed a quick stop at the scenic overlook. Thanks to all our Trail Gang participants this summer!
2024 Trail Gang
We had many young participants to help throughout the forest. The Gang began work on clearing the new Black Bear trail, which will connect Chestnut Mountain to Spruce Mountain. The Gang also began cleaning up the Foundation’s Henry property, an 18-acre wooded parcel on Rt 390 behind the cottages on Lenape Lane. Ranger Joe took away truckloads of trash and tires at the end of the day!
2023 Trail Gang
The first trail gang of the 2023 season got off to a great start by maintaining over 10 miles of trails in Jenkins Woods, and on Chestnut and Spruce Mountains. Highlights of their work include scoping out a new trail on Chestnut Mountain that will lead to a great viewpoint, and removing many of the invasive Tree of Heaven along the Spruce Mountain power alley that are the favorite food source of the destructive Spotted Lanternfly.
2022 Trail Gang
2022 was a busy year for two trail gangs, who spent the better part of two weeks during the summer to maintain the trails on Chestnut Mountain and post the perimeter with new Foundation signs.
In total we had eight volunteers working together over the course of two weeks, logging over 140 hours of community service. Under Ranger Joe’s supervision, they successfully maintained over 7 miles of trails and posted over 500 signs while walking over 21 miles.
