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Conover-Phelps Trail $100,000 away from full-funding

This summer has been a great time for people to discover the completed 9 miles of the Conover-Phelps Trail.
Over 450 supporters in the Yard & Mile Club made it happen: click here for the membership list.
Field work has started to determine the best route of the final 2 miles. The goal: give people a great way to walk or ride right into Phelps beautiful lakefront park.
Completion ETA: early summer 2019.

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Family fun, live music, great food!

Over 100 people took part in the Don Gillum Memorial Bike and Hike on the Conover-Phelps Trail on July 21. Midway through the event they gathered on the trail to dedicate a bench to honor the memory of a volunteer who helped make trails happen for communities in eastern Vilas County.

From News Channel 12

SepTimber Ride 2018 was record-breaking!

With 238 riders this year's Eagle River-based brewery-to-winery ride was the best ever!

SAVE THE DATE: Sept. 14, 2019, for SepTimber Ride V.

Get a close up view - click here!

Next up: The River Trail

The next 10-mile leg of the trail system will connect Eagle River to St. Germain. Watch for new developments.

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Building family-friendly biking and walking trails
near the source of a Great River

The Great Headwaters Trails foundation’s goal is to build 40 miles of biking and walking trails in eastern Vilas County, the headwaters of the Wisconsin River. The Great Headwaters Trails system will connect the towns of Land O’ Lakes, Conover, Phelps and Eagle River and beyond to the Three Eagles Trail, Heart of Vilas Trail and Wilderness Lakes Trail.

A grand vision – a connecting system of over 110 miles of trails.

The first leg of the Great Headwaters Trails system is the Conover-Phelps Trail.

The Conover-Phelps Trail

Help support developing the first 11-mile leg of the 40-mile eastern Vilas trail system.

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3.2 miles
in place and in use

5.5 more miles
were completed last fall.

Check out the new trail!

The final 2.2 miles
can be added by 2019.

paid for

Now

funded

REI awards $4,000 grant to fund trail

May 12, 2017

Great Headwaters Trails is now one of REI’s grant partners after the national recreational gear coop awarded GHT $4,000 to help complete the Song Hill Lane project. As part of their support for the project, REI will help promote trails built by GHT and the biking and walking trails of…

Fat bike and kayak are top prizes in this year’s raffle

May 10, 2017

Thanks to Forever Young Bike and Ski Shop and WalkAbout Sports, participants in this year’s SepTimber Ride raffle can win a premium play thing for land and water. A Specialized Fat Boy SE fat tire bike is the raffle’s top prize, and second prize is a Perception Prodigy 12 kayak…

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Be an active ingredient – all kinds of skills are needed to build top notch biking and walking trails. Add yours! <a href="https://ghtrails.org/volunteer-2/">VOLUNTEER</a>

Be an active ingredient – all kinds of skills are needed to build top notch biking and walking trails. Add yours! VOLUNTEER

Make the Northwoods even better – donate to help build the Great Headwaters Trail System <a href="https://ghtrails.org/donate">DONATE NOW</a>

Make the Northwoods even better – donate to help build the Great Headwaters Trail System DONATE NOW

When it comes to nonmotorized trails, here are the people – all volunteers - who are moving things forward in eastern Vilas County. <a href="https://ghtrails.org/about/">LEARN MORE</a>

When it comes to nonmotorized trails, here are the people – all volunteers - who are moving things forward in eastern Vilas County. LEARN MORE

Good trails pay off in fun, well-being, and dollars. Here’s what is in place and in the works right now! <a href="https://ghtrails.org/trail-system/plans-and-progress/">SEE THE PROGRESS</a>

Good trails pay off in fun, well-being, and dollars. Here’s what is in place and in the works right now! SEE THE PROGRESS