Trail Center Update - Crew Cabins!
We are nearing the trail’s end for the campaign and offer our warm thanks to all 471 donors. We must reach the campaign goal to advance construction of the Trail Center main building and maintenance building. In June 2023, the campaign received a grant for $75,000 from The Windover Foundation to support the construction of the Trail Center in Skowhegan, Maine. We are profoundly grateful for their generous support. Thanks to a partnership with the Maine Army National Guard through its Innovative Readiness Program, roadwork and preliminary construction began in 2022 and continued into 2023. This Program offers free labor, tools, and equipment to municipal and nonprofit entities for projects deemed useful to the Guard as a training exercise. In 2022, the 136th Engineering Battalion of the Maine National Guard installed erosion control features, removed stumps, and brought 800 feet of the road to sub-grade. This past June, soldiers built two Crew Cabins (sleeping quarters) at the Maine