Bring the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew to your NPS Unit

Two teams of trails experts travel year-round throughout North America and beyond, leading trailwork sessions, meeting with land managers, and working with IMBA-affiliated clubs and members. The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crews teach IMBA Trailbuilding Schools each weekend to volunteers and land managers.

If you are interested in bringing a Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew to your NPS unit, whether for an afternoon meeting or a full four-day visit, contact Aaryn Kay, Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew coordinator at or 303-545-9011 x 107 or fill out the application.

Trailbuilding Schools generally include a day and a half of classroom and field instruction. Each school combines interactive learning, hands-on trailwork and top-notch instructors to develop skilled trailworkers and crew leaders.

Topics can include:

• Trail etiquette and rider education
• How to start a bike patrol program
• Trails tourism consulting
• Shared-use management principles
• Sustainable trail design
• Leave No Trace principles
• Basic construction
• Turns, drainage and bridges
• Trail reroutes
• Trail reclamation
• Rockwork
• Fostering volunteer clubs and partnerships
• Effective use of signag

How the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew can help your NPS unit:

• Meet with you and your staff to address specific trail and user management issues
• Recruit new volunteers and rejuvenate dedicated ones
• Lead an IMBA Trailbuilding School for park staff and local volunteers
• Rally community support for trails
• Increase publicity for your trail system
• Forge connections between your land management agency and local trail groups
• Create partnerships between different trail user groups and public land agencies