Kellogg’s Loop Trail Work Days
January 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
|Recurring Event (See all)
One event on January 18, 2025 at 10:00 am
One event on February 1, 2025 at 10:00 am
One event on February 15, 2025 at 10:00 am
Rugby State Natural Area friends and trail volunteers:
Travis Bow, our stewardship ecologist for the newly created Upper Cumberland District of State Natural Areas, has been rerouting sections of Kellogg’s Loop in preparation for rebuilding Little Creek Bridge. There are opportunities for volunteer work in trail clearing, invasive plant removal, applying paint blazes to mark the trail, and clearing the way to the bridge construction site. Hours of volunteer labor will count as in-kind matching for the Little Creek Bridge reconstruction grant.
Travis is scheduling four winter trail work days: Saturday, January 4; Saturday, January 18; Saturday, February 1; Saturday February 15. We’ll meet 10 a.m. Eastern at the Rugby Visitor Centre and proceed from there to the project site. He will publicize these on the TDEC website soon. Please mark these dates on your 2025 calendars, watch for more information on the websites, and plan to help on one or more of these work days if you can. Travis has a trail-clearing machine, so volunteer efforts would likely include a bit of raking and light clearing after the machine has done its cuts.
The bridge grant still requires a match of at least $30,000 in real dollars. We’ve raised just about $23,000 to this point, so please consider making a year-end monetary contribution to Historic Rugby designated for Bridge Replacement. That would be a great memorial tribute to Eric Wilson and Bob Hemminger, who first showed Beacon Hill newcomers the Crack and aspired to make it more accessible via Cox Branch Trail and the old wooden bridge.
Thanks very much, Benita Howell
(Photo is the old bridge after it washed downstream in 2021 flooding)