Mountain Trails Foundation

We build, maintain and protect Park City, Utah's trails

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National Trails Day – Join us June 7th!

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Join the Mountain Trails Crew and dig with us on June 7th to celebrate National Trails Day.

To make sure we can safely accommodate volunteers, this is an RSVP-only event. Please consider others and cancel your sign-up if you cannot make it!

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Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

THANK YOU for your Live PC Give PC donations!

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Thank you for contributing to our largest fundraiser!

Today, over 400 continuous miles of non-motorized trails now exist in Park City that connect you to mountain meadows, sagebrush covered hills, aspen groves, coniferous forests, and viewsheds that are unparalleled. 

If you like to hike, bike, and ski in Park City, please show your love for open space and trails this Live PC Give PC. We hope that when you give to Mountain Trails Foundation on November 4th, you will also give to Summit Land Conservancy: Because trails and land go hand in hand!

It doesn’t matter how much you give during Live PC Give PC, it matters THAT you give. All it takes is $5 to join the fun November 4th (or before!), and help us save the trails and lands that make Park City special!

DONATE NOW

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Livepcgivepc.org is a one-day virtual event that encourages all of Summit County, Utah to contribute to benefit our nonprofit organizations through a single online giving platform. It is uniquely Park City. The campaign is primarily coordinated by The Park City Foundation (PCF), Summit County’s community foundation, in partnership will area nonprofit organizations.

Live PC Give PC is now open for donations and go through November 4th, 2022.

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Triple Trail Challenge 2025 Dates

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The 2025 Triple Trail Challenge events have been announced!

MORE INFO HERE

Round Valley Rambler Half Marathon & 7K

June 14, 2025

Jupiter Peak 25K

July 19, 2025

Mid Mountain 50K

August 16, 2025

Remember, they will sell out – register today!

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Us vs. Them, No Please

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During the past month, the political muddle around e-bike access on Park City’s single-track trails has caused an inordinate amount of brain damage. And, while MTF’s 13-person board of directors, and 11-person staff, are experienced, educated and publicly supported in our position, there is also an overt acknowledgment that the issue is not two-sided. As with any political issue, the issue of e-bikes on old-school singletrack is multi-faceted, with each facet illuminating its own virtues – and shortcomings.

For MTF, the hardest, most frustrating element of this conversation is not the vitriolic rhetoric distorting facts. It’s not the tightly held beliefs – ignorant or meritorious as they may be. It’s not even the curveball 3/5 of Park City’s Council threw to the public on June 28th. No, the hardest thing to reconcile is the Us vs. Them mentality that has grown around this matter. Opponents in this conversation see them as competition. Them as stuck-up, elitist athletes – or lazy no-goods. Them as threatening a classic, analog way of life – or oblivious to the ways of the future. Them as ignorant. Them as the threat. In reality, let me say loudly and clearly, there is no us and them. There is just one asset: a 35-year-old, world-renowned trail system.

To one who has built a personal and professional life out of trails, it is astounding and heart-breaking that we – yes, we the trails community – are not coming together on a solution that will both protect and enhance what we have. We are fortunate to have in our town a long and well-loved legacy trail system, built over decades, with way-back technology, and the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds, that make for a very unique experience. The Park City trail experience is, in fact, so special that people travel from all over the world to enjoy it – or move here to weave it into their daily lives.  

Like it or not, the fact is that e-bikes are a disruptor, a new technology, both in the physical and mental/emotional spaces. And they are here for good. So now what? What are we as a trail loving community going to do?

MTF’s board and staff propose the employment of open minds, patience, understanding of other viewpoints and, above all, kindness as we adapt. Shouting from soapboxes about personal rights and entitlement will not move this community toward harmony. Neither selfishness, protectiveness nor self-righteousness will move us toward a solution in which every trail use, novel or historic, has a space to play in the specific way they want to. As with purpose-built pickleball courts, purpose-built trails take time to develop. And time we have.

Park City’s classic non-motorized trails have long been the backbone of a fun-loving, welcoming, passionate outdoor culture. Trails are the thread that knits the community together, turns neighbors into friends, and families into generations of outdoor enthusiasts. Next to, and not behind, world-class ski resorts, world-class trails are the reason many of us live in, and visit, Park City. Let’s spread the stoke, keep old-school single-track safe and build for the future.

After all, this is Park City: we can have our cake and eat it too.

Hope to see you out there!

Lora Anthony, Executive Director

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

More Than A Picnic Table

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In Round Valley there is a very special picnic table. It has been there, well-used, weathering winter snow loads and summer heat, since long before my boys and I first discovered it for ourselves more than two decades ago. Back in the day, prior to the development of the North Round Valley Trailhead (an area my children named The Boneyard for all the “dinosaur bones” lying in the sage), we’d stuff a backpack and hike from our home down the street, up to the picnic table for lunch. In a more recent and globally unforgettable era, that picnic table served as a place to hold socially distanced, BYO dinner gatherings, providing relief from the crushing isolation of a quarantine. 

The other day, I ran past the table and a tsunami of nostalgia stopped me cold. I remembered warning, “be careful of splinters” as the weather-beaten planks wobbled like a rocking horse beneath the wiggles of four little boys. Over time, the table became a little more sturdy, then sturdy and splinter free, and then for a time before they too rotted, the table top planks were wonderfully, colorfully painted with wildflowers and joy. It would be safe to bet that not a single part of the original picnic table still exists. 

And yet, today, a picnic table stands solid. It is not the same picnic table – it is something much more. You see, the object that now stands is not just two benches and a table top, it is also a testament to the goodness of people. Those who have used the table, cherish it. And over the years, probably unbeknownst to one another, they have hauled and installed new planks. Hiked in tools to tighten hardware. Painted and repaired. Care has been applied, layer upon layer. This is an ongoing story of the spirit of the trails community. 

It may be that I’m just a wistful older lady, but I can’t help wondering if there’s a lot more inspiration to unpack in this story. Let me know what you think. . . 

Hope to see you out there!

Lora Anthony, Executive Director

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew

Custom Tech-T’s for Tour Des Suds 2024

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We are honored to partner with Park City’s newest tech apparel company, Session Co to produce a commemorative bike Jersey (tech-t) for this year’s Tour Des Suds. Represent the event that’s brought the best of our community together for the last 40 years with this functional piece of history. Soft and breathable these will quickly become your favorite shirt for riding, running, or relaxing.

Please note that these are pre-orders only! Shirts can be picked up at packet pickup Sept 7th, shirts that aren’t picked up in person will be mailed out the week of Sept 10th.

PRE-ORDER NOW

REGISTER FOR TDS

MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

Meet the Team

We are passionate about the Park City Trail System.

Lora Anthony

Lora@MountainTrails.org
Executive Director

Rick Fournier

Rick@MountainTrails.org
Field Manager

Ginger Wicks

Ginger@MountainTrails.org
Bookkeepr

Ian Hartley

ian@MountainTrails.org
Resource Manager
435-655-5853

2022 Trail Crew