You can get an award just for hiking. The Keystone Trails Associations offers seven different awards for hiking the trails of Pennsylvania, including an award for kids under the age of 13! Award recipients are recognized at the annual KTA fall meeting. Interested? Click here to learn more.
This year, challenge yourself.
One step at a time.
The Keystone Trails Association (KTA) 100-Mile Trail Challenge recognizes hikers that complete 100 miles or more of eligible Pennsylvania hiking trails in a designated period of time. In 2012, the 100-Mile Trail Challenge must be completed between April 1 and September 1, 2012.
We support measures that protect our hiking trails.
We oppose illegal ATV encroachment on public lands.
We oppose Sunday hunting.
Trail Protection
We train and support volunteers to work with land owners and land managers to secure more permanent access to hiking trails.
Trail Care
Each year we organize a minimum of nine trail care weekends, four week-long trail crews and three Code Orange one day events to build and maintain hiking trails in Pennsylvania.
Our Trail Care and Trail Crew volunteers contribute 3000 – 4000 hours of trail labor annually.
We provide training workshops on chainsaw safety, trail erosion control, rock work and wilderness first aid.
Local Club Trail Support
Our member clubs contribute another 20,000 - 30,000 hours of volunteer labor building and maintaining trails.
KTA is providing $61,000 in grants to local clubs to fund the purchase of tools, equipment and materials.
Promotion of Hiking Trails and Hiking Opportunities
With DCNR, we co-sponsor Pennsylvania Hiking Week
We organize the Prowl the Sproul hiking weekend and full hiking programs at our spring and fall meetings.
We publish Pennsylvania Hiking Trails, the PA Appalachian Trail Guide, and other maps and guides
To share photographs, hiking stories, advocacy alerts, trail news, and more with other Pennsylvania hikers, "LIKE" Keystone Trails Association on Facebook!
Three Ways Your Club Can Help This MonthDo you belong to one of KTA's member organizations/ clubs? If so, did you know we need your club's help, just as much as we need the help of all of KTA's individual members? Here are three... Read more...
KTA Council: Defined According to the KTA bylaws, the Council consists of one representative from each organizational member, twelve Representatives-at-Large elected by the individual members, the members of the Board of... Read more...
Why I love to Hike: Alyssa KerlinHi, my name is Alyssa Kerlin I am 11 years old and I love to hike. I got into hiking to begin with because I spend alot of time with my Gram and she was talking about hiking with her friends and I... Read more...
KTA Heritage Society Planned gifts, through Keystone Trails Association’s (KTA’s) Heritage Society, are about planning for your future and the future of Pennsylvania's footpaths. Navigating through the... Read more...
Faces of KTA: Daryl Warren Daryl Warren, from Wellsboro, PA, will turn 78 years old on July 20, 2012. A hiker since the early 1960's, Daryl began hiking in earnest in 2005, and joined Keystone Trails Association in 2009. ... Read more...
Your Hiking Advocate, May 2012by Curt Ashenfelter, KTA Executive Director
Spring arrived early to Pennsylvania’s hiking trails this year. It’s an exciting time of the year as we plan upcoming trail... Read more...
FracTracker & KTA Initiative KTA and FracTracker.org are proud to launch Trail Logbook: Reporting Gas Industry Impacts on Pennsylvania Trail Experiences - an effort to collect information from hikers and other trail users... Read more...
Site Selection for Spring 2012 Hiking WeekendKTA is seeking site suggestions for the 2013 Spring Meeting and Hiking Weekend. If you have a suggestion, or would like to participate in a Site Selection Working Group, please let us know ASAP! ... Read more...
KTA Letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by Curt Ashenfelter, KTA Executive Director
April 12, 2012
Recently, KTA wrote a letter to Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, concerning Project N3.... Read more...
October 12-14 KTA Fall Meeting and Hiking Weekend, Clearfield, PA
Featured Hiking Club
Asaph Trail Club The Asaph Trail Club in Wellsboro, Tioga County, meets monthly to set up locak hikes and plan club trips. The club offers a variety of activities that are perfect for hikers of all ages and levels of expertise. Leaders from the Asaph Trail Club will lead KTA members on guided hikes through the PA Wilds, during the KTA Spring Hiking Weekend in April. For more information about the... Read more...
KTA Trail of the Month
Laurel Highlands Hiking TrailThe Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail is 70 miles long and especially near the southern end, is quite rugged, and provisions have been made to keep the trail as primitive as possible. Most of the trail... Read more...
Keystone Trails Association
101 N. Front St.
Harrisburg, PA 17101
(717) 238-7017
