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Last Chance to Buy Tickets for a New Pivot Full-Suspension Mountain Bike

Only two days left to purchase tickets for a chance to win a size large Pivot Switchblade 29 Race XT with Factory Series FOX upgrade! ($5,999 value).

Tickets are $10 each or 6 for $50 and can be purchased here.

This raffle benefits the Arizona Trail Association’s all-girls youth mountain bike programs and Navajo YES!‘s Diné Bikeyah Bike Project. Fox Factory’s Trail Trust will be matching the first $10,000 raised! To learn more about Trail Trust and Fox Factory’s commitment to sustainable adventure for all, visit www.trailtrust.com

The winner will be announced on Friday, February 24. Get your tickets TODAY!
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Annual Meeting Tickets Now Available

The Arizona Trail Association’s 29th Annual Meeting is happening on Sunday, March 5 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona and you are invited to attend. ATA Board and Staff will highlight some of greatest accomplishments from 2022, honor outstanding volunteers and agency partners, hear from guest speakers, and much more.
 
The event is scheduled from 10 am – 1 pm and will include breakout sessions where you can participate in important conversations about organizational priorities and plans for 2023 and beyond. Then, we will enjoy lunch together in the beautiful courtyard surrounded by lush desert plant species.
 
We hope you can join us for this important annual event. For those unable to attend in person, the annual meeting will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel.
BUY TICKETS HERE

New Film Features Native Perspectives on Grand Canyon

With Grand Canyon National Park’s 104th anniversary happening on February 26, we are proud to share a new 12-minute film, “Voices of the Grand Canyon” from our friends at Grand Canyon Trust. 

Voices of the Grand Canyon grew out of the Intertribal Centennial Conversations Group, a grassroots advisory body that formed around the centennial anniversary of Grand Canyon National Park. What started as a series of interviews about the group’s vision for the next century grew into this film, which you can watch online. It has already been accepted into a dozen film festivals around the world.

Told by Native people through the lens of filmmaker Deidra Peaches, and alongside Native producers, composers, and artists, this film shares stories of movement and migration, hardship and struggle, origins, reverence, and awe.

On screen, Nikki Cooley (Diné), Jim Enote (Zuni), Loretta Jackson-Kelly (Hualapai), Coleen Kaska, (Havasupai), and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma (Hopi) ask viewers to see the Grand Canyon as so much more than a national park.

The Arizona Trail Association is proud that the Arizona National Scenic Trail passes through this immensely inspiring natural and cultural landscape, and we acknowledge that every mile of the AZT is on indigenous lands. Through our volunteer program, we are honored to continue a millennia old tradition of stewardship.

WATCH THE FILM HERE

National Scenic & Historic Trail Feature: Natchez Trace Trail

For thousands of years, people have walked the Natchez Trace, a wide corridor of many interconnected paths from Natchez, Mississippi to just south of Nashville, Tennessee. The trail itself likely started as a wildlife trail and organically evolved into an important route used for centuries for trade and travel by people of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez
Nations, arguably the most influential groups of people to have lived along the Trace. From Indigenous peoples, traders, and soldiers, the history of the Trace is made up of thousands of stories, artifacts, historical sites, and culturally significant structures. To preserve the rich cultural heritage of this trail as a footpath, the Natchez Trace was designated a National Scenic Trail in 1983.
 
The Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail exists within the corridor along the 444 miles of the Natchez Trace Parkway, the ninth most visited National Park. Though the Parkway itself is known for the beauty and history of the landscape it sweeps through and is a destination for cyclists, the trail exists on its own as a series of five discontinuous paths that are accessible by points along the Parkway. These sections range from 3 to 26 miles long for a total of over 60 miles and are open to hikers and equestrians. The Natchez Trace takes visitors through lush forests, prairielands, swamps, wetlands, deep ravines, streams and waterfalls. In some areas, the trail links up with portions of the original Natchez Trace, where the footsteps from millions of journeys create sunken portions of the trail. Some embankments in these sections are over 20 feet high. There is no camping along the trail, but there are many campsites for visitors to stay connected to the trail near them. 
 
When visiting the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail, visitors are offered the opportunity to connect their own story in the present with the journeys of the past through experiencing the landscape, history, and culture of the original Trace. Learn more about the Natchez Trace NST here, and explore all of America’s National Scenic and Historic Trails through the Partnership for the National Trails System website.

Bandana Features Reptiles & Amphibians of the Arizona Trail

Introducing the first in a line of wildlife bandanas featuring wildlife found along the Arizona Trail. This debut bandana features a collection of reptiles and amphibians you might see along the trail, including a Gila monster, Sonoran Desert toad, Arizona black rattlesnake, Chiricahua leopard frog, and many others! Each is beautifully depicted through original art from Rachel Ivanyi along with the common and Latin names.

Bandanas are 22″x22", full-color, and 100% cotton with a sateen weave, making them super soft. They're $15.50 each, while supplies last.

Perhaps the most functional item to bring with you on the Arizona Trail, a bandana can be used to shade your neck and face; pre-filter water; cool your skin; wrap around a wound; keep dust and hot air out of your airway; and add Arizona flare to your hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian attire.

They look great on dogs, donkeys and other trail companions, too! No trip on the AZT is complete without an AZT bandana.

ORDER BANDANA HERE

Why I Love Where I Live is a proud supporter of the Arizona Trail Association.

Few things affect your everyday life more than where you live. Whether it’s the
weather, the quality of the neighborhood, the schools, restaurants, and shops, public parks or the lack thereof, your city is an integral part of your life. It’s the culture surrounding you and the environment shaping you. Your city matters.
 
Why I Love Where I Live is a movement committed to cultivating a love for their city that shows itself in beauty and active engagement. Through resources, a connected online community, and a local shop, Why I Love Where I Live wants you to love where you live and seek its good, regardless of where that is.
 
Learn more about Why I Love Where I Live online, visit their store in downtown Tucson, and check out the incredible local offerings through their online store.

Why I Love Where I Live is a Ponderosa Pine level Business Partner of the Arizona Trail Association.
 
Please support the businesses that support the ATA & the AZT!

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