Dan River Basin Association’s Adopt-a-Trail Program
Make a difference in your community and volunteer!

The Adopt-A-Trail Program is a volunteer program providing opportunities for hikers, bicyclists and equestrians to assist The Dan River Basin Association (DRBA) in supporting Henry County Virginia Parks and Recreation, Martinsville Leisure Services, Eden North Carolina Parks & Recreation, and the town of Yanceyville, North Carolina by coordinating volunteer activities to monitor, maintain and enhance trails and trailhead facilities along trails found within the Dan River Basin.
(Photo: Members of the Smith River Trail System's Adopt-a-Trail program.)

Who can adopt a trail?
School and youth groups, scout troops, church, community and service organizations, businesses, families, individuals or groups of individuals can adopt a trail. Anyone with an interest in trails and the outdoors is welcome to help preserve our land and provide safe, enjoyable access to the outdoors.


What can volunteers do?
Activities include keeping the trail surface free of sticks, rocks and other debris, pruning small limbs from the trail corridor, cleaning waterbars and drainage ditches, and clearing debris from bridges and stairs. Other responsibilities include litter clean-up, maintaining the trailhead, and reporting vandalism, trail hazards or safety issues.
(Photo: Paul May volunteers to remove tripping hazards from Jones Cliff Trail.)

Smith River Trail System
Jennifer Doss
PO Box 7
Collinsville, VA 24078
(276) 634-2545

Caswell County Trails
Chad Hall
413 Church Street, Suite 401
Eden, NC 27288
(336) 344-0608

Smith River Trail System

• Lauren Mountain Preserve,
  Bassett, VA
  (Coming Soon!)

• The Dick and Willie Passage,
  Martinsville, VA (4.5 miles)

• Smith River Sports Complex
  Axton, VA (1 mile)

• Smith River Greenway,
  Eden, NC (1.7 miles)

Caswell County Trails

• Streamwalk Trail,
  Yanceyville, NC
  (850 ft. and growing!)

• Mountain Bike Trail,
  Yanceyville, NC
  (Coming Soon!)

Tommy Wyatt and Tracy Kennett install a new sign at the Fieldale Trail.
 

Adopt-a-Trail Teams

Above: Friends of the Fieldale Trail

• Maintaining and extending the trail

• Serving as ambassadors for the trail

• Building & Installing Bluebird Boxes

• Initiating a trail recycling program

• Monitoring trail use

• Leading area scouts in trail work

• Developing events to promote the trail

“I love to give back to the community and volunteering is one way to do that. The trail is a good way to meet people, get exercise and see nature.” –Paula Wyatt

“We fell in love with the Fieldale Trail the first time we walked the trail. The river is such an asset—it is so stress relieving to sit on the benches and listen to the water. We also like the flowers and trees on the trail. It’s a wonderful experience for families, whether walking, biking, jogging or bicycling.” – Pat Dameron

• Tending flowerbeds in partnership with Gateway Streetscape

• Sweeping debris off the path

• Painting decorative birdhouses

• Fundraising for additional trashcans

"Friends of the Gravely Nature Preserve"
Led by team captain Martin Gardner (below), these families love working in the outdoors at the Richard P. Gravely, Jr. Nature Preserve. The park located in Ridgeway, Virginia is Henry County’s first interpretive park. Members include Ginger, Jack & Will Gardner, Neil Tatum, Doug Foley, Lewis & Campbell Pitzer (left). Together they maintain more than 2 miles of trails within the 75-acre preserve.

• Extending Rhododendron Trail
  an additional half mile upstream along the Smith River
• Maintaining and enhancing the trails
• Maintaining the cemetery of
  John Henry Burgess
• Maintaining depression era
  tobacco barns
• Monitoring trail use

• Maintaining and enhancing the trail

• Monitoring trail use

Henry County
Administration Building
PO Box 7
Collinsville, VA 24078
Phone: 276-634-2545
drba.va@danriver.org

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