Arizona Trail Association

🌵💚 A HUGE thank you to everyone who supported the Arizona Trail Association on Earth Gives Day! Your generosity helps protect, maintain, and preserve this incredible trail for future generations to explore and enjoy. Together, we’re making a lasting impact on Arizona’s wild and beautiful landscapes. Let’s keep the adventure going! 🥾🌲🫶 #ThankYou #ArizonaTrail #EarthGivesDay #ProtectOurTrails

The Arizona Trail is a place of beauty, adventure, and connection. Spanning 800 miles across the diverse landscapes of Arizona, it’s a treasure that brings joy to thousands of hikers, bikers, and horseback riders every year. But the trail needs our help to stay open, healthy, and protected. Join us on #EarthGivesDay to support our mission to protect, maintain, enhance, promote and sustain the Arizona Trail as a unique encounter with the natural environment https://lnkd.in/gjHRj3KG

The Partnership for the National Trails System is seeking new board members.

We are thrilled to announce that the Arizona Trail Association is joining a groundbreaking nationwide initiative—Earth Gives Day! 🌎 ✨This unique giving day provides a streamlined platform where you can discover, support, and amplify the work of environmental and climate organizations like ours. Earth Gives Day was created to address a critical gap: less than 2% of all charitable donations currently go to environmental and climate causes. This isn’t enough to drive the impactful change our planet desperately needs. By participating, you help shift more focus onto these vital issues, supporting both our mission and those of our dedicated colleagues in the climate and environmental sector. Here’s how you can make a difference: 1. Donate: Visit https://lnkd.in/gjHRj3KG to make your contribution. 2. Share: Use the quick share button when you give to spread the word to your network. Prefer not to use social media? Text or email the URL to your friends and family. 3. Alternative Contributions: If you prefer to donate by check or Donor Advised Fund, please make it out to Arizona Trail Association  and send it to us to be received by September 26 so we can manually add it to our total. Your support could help us earn additional prize dollars for our organization.

We are thrilled to announce we are accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Arizona Trail Ambassador Program. This will be our 5th cohort and we expect incredible outcomes from this season as the program continues to grow in community and capability. If you know a young person who desires to develop their relationship with nature, prepare themselves for their future, and thrive in an outdoor learning environment, please encourage them to apply. Download, print, and share the flyer with your community and encourage people to email treven@aztrail.org for application information. The internship's start date is October 12th. Please encourage applicants to apply in a timely manner. We will be accepting 12 interns total this year.

Work for the ATA! The Arizona Trail Associations seeks an exceptional individual to coordinate volunteer programs on the Arizona National Scenic Trail (AZT) statewide. Ideal candidates will be capable of designing and implementing programming for a diverse group of volunteers both on and off the trail, including the Segment Steward, and Trail Skills Institute Programs. This position relies heavily upon strong communication skills and will require demonstrated office skills as well as a familiarity with basic trail construction and maintenance techniques. The Volunteer Coordinator is a full-time salary position. View and/or download the complete Employment Opportunity here: https://lnkd.in/egtXQhAA...

Come join our team! Employment Opportunity: Administrative Assistant The ATA is looking for an exceptional individual to support organizational operations within our Tucson office. Check out the job post on our website.

It's here! The annual Arizona Trail in a Day event registration is now open. Register today to help us hike, bike, and ride the entire Arizona Trail together in one day, while also fundraising to help protect and maintain the Arizona National Scenic Trail. See you out on the AZT!

The Arizona Trail Association Seeds of Stewardship program in Flagstaff provides *free* supplemental environmental education to local schools. Last week, Puente’s fourth-grade class created a map of the north side of campus, where the outdoor classroom will be, and designed what it might look like. The fifth-graders then learned about trail-building from Showalter, Sprague and Arizona Trail Association field coordinator for northern Arizona Heidi Larson, and completed the fourth-grade's loop trail design over the next three days.

Today, and everyday, we celebrate the public lands that make Arizona such a wonderful place. We are grateful for all who work diligently to protect and maintain these lands and keep them open and accessible to the public.