The Maah Daah Hey Trail Association (MDHTA), founded in 2000, is a non-profit 501(c )(3) organization to provide and maintain a linear, non-motorized, sustainable recreational trail system in southwest North Dakota through voluntary and public involvement, and in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service. The trail had over 35,000 trail users in 2022 based on Read more
The MDHTA annual meeting will be held Saturday, April 5, 2025, at the Eagles Club Dickinson. The Eagles Club in Dickinson is located at 31 1st Avenue East. The social will begin at 5 pm MT, dinner at 6 pm MT followed by the meeting. The menu includes a salad bar, deep fried turkey, roast Read more
Back by popular demand, MDHTA will again be sponsoring the MDH Trail Challenge in 2025. Challenge miles can be earned from using any of the trails in the Maah Daah Hey Trail System. These trails include the MDH, Buffalo Gap, Coal Creek, Juniper Spur, Bear Creek Spur, Ice Caves, Cottonwood, Bennett, Long X and Wolf. Read more
Recreational Trails Program projects on the Maah Daah Hey Trail were highlighted in the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department’s Miles and Moments videos. Curt Glasoe, MDHTA President, discusses with Char Langhaug, Grants Coordinator for ND Parks and Recreation Department, how the Association is using RTP grants to make the trail sustainable through proper design Read more
This year’s National Trails Day project will be held on June 3, at White Butte near Amidon, North Dakota. White Butte is North Dakota’s highest point at 3,506 feet. The High Pointers Club worked with the land owner to obtain an easement for a trail to the top of White Butte, Slope County improved the Read more
This year’s Trails Day event took place on the Buffalo Gap Trail west of Medora south of Old US 10. Forty-two volunteers from the Maah Daah Hey Trail Association along with other organizations, such as, US Forest Service, Save the MDH, and Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch joined forces to surface 1000 feet of trail. Read more
Its official! The entire 144 miles of the Maah Daah Hey Trail, including Maah Daah Hey 2, or The Deuce, has been designated a National Recreation Trail. The designation was made on December 14, 2016 by the Northern Regional Forester, Leanne Marten. The application for this designation was supported by the North Dakota Department of Read more
The 2016 Trails Day headquartered out of the Third Creek Trail Head drew 42 hard working folks from western as well as central North Dakota. Response from the volunteers was so good that all of the gravel used to surface the trail that day was spread by 10:30 am and an additional half mile of Read more
Thirty hardy individuals participated in the 2015 National Trails Day event held on the Maah Daah Hey Trail on Saturday, June 6, 2015. The day before the event up to 2 inches of rain fell causing creeks and rivers to run high. But the clouds cleared out on Trails Day providing a perfect day to Read more
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