NEW MEMBERSHIP & RENEWAL APPLICATION TRAIL Annual membership may be paid at the Hoosier Horse Fair or by mail or on our Website RIDERS

NAME: ______ITRA lobbied Indiana DNR to save the single file trail system at ASSOCIATION SPOUSE’S NAME: ______and we help maintain them to this day. ADDRESS: ______ITRA built and helps maintain a connector CITY: ______trail at .

STATE: ______ZIP: ______ITRA lobbied the Indiana DNR to keep HOME PHONE: ______Potato Creek campground open.

CELL PHONE: ______ITRA helped plan a new Class A campground at Deam Lake and O’Bannon EMAIL: ______Woods State Parks.

MEMBERSHIP GIFTED / SPONSORED BY: ITRA laid out and marked trails at NAME: ______Greene-Sullivan State Forest.

ADDRESS: ______ITRA represents the interests of Indiana trail riders with state officials. CITY: ______STATE: ______ZIP: ______ITRA is working with Indiana DNR and oth- ers to put a Class A campground in Versailles State Park.

□ $30 Family Membership ITRA has partnered with equine groups such as Hoosier Back Country Horsemen and Old □ $100 Association (Club) Membership Capital Saddle Club to support Indiana’s horse trail legacy.

All memberships include a FREE Trail Guide. ITRA volunteers work year around with Indi- Please add $3 to cover Trail Guide postage ana State Parks and State Forests to main- tain and improve existing horse trails. MAKE CHECK PAYABLE AND MAIL TO: ITRA members represent Indiana trail We put the INDIANA TRAIL RIDERS ASSOCIATION riders at national trail symposiums. P. O. BOX 185 “Trail” FARMLAND, IN 47340 ITRA hosts a Facebook site and supports an Internet email discussion group for the benefit all trail riders. In Trail Riding

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The purpose of the ITRA is to promote trail riding and Members receive a free copy of the Trail Guide. It is a The ITRA takes action! In 1982 Indiana IDNR equine activities in Indiana and the surrounding areas. detailed listings of over 65 public and private Indiana horse closed all the single file horse trails in Brown ITRA is involved on the local, state and national levels, trails and facilities. Every other month they also County State Park. The ITRA was created to promoting, building, improving trails and campgrounds. receive ITRA’s newsletter, the Trail Mix, containing reverse the decision! Those trails are open today We work actively on legislative and administrative levels important information and events. With it members stay and better than ever. More than once the mem- as well as sponsoring and organizing workdays on informed on the associations activities throughout the state. bership has taken action to rescue horse trails numerous recreational properties. Our goal is to from extinction. preserve, for future generations, the natural beauty we ITRA hosts two social rides a year, a spring ride at have enjoyed on horseback. O’Bannon Woods State Park and a fall ride at Midwest Trail Trails at Brown County and other state parks and Ride near Norman, Indiana in the . forests have been created from scratch by ITRA. The ITRA is an ALL volunteer organization, including There is also a Spring and Fall clean-up ride at Brown Many ITRA volunteers have taken classes and officers and directors. The ITRA is for individuals, County State Park and O’Bannon Woods State Park plus are certified on how to plan, build and maintain groups, and family enjoyment of equine activities work day rides at numerous horse trails in all regions of the trails that are within state and environmental throughout Indiana. state. guidelines.

The members work directly with the Indiana ITRA members and leaders come from all corners of the ITRA plans specific work days at many Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and state of Indiana and beyond. They ride horses, mules, po- IDNR facilities to keep trails in Indiana clean and maintains open lines of communications with nies, Western, English, and some drive carts and functional. Crews with chain saws and garbage legislators and community leaders. wagons. Some have large living quarter horse trailers and bags go out in force on foot and on horseback to others have small tents and bumper pull trailers. keep our trails clean and safe. ITRA works for new and improved camping facilities. ITRA was involved with the Class A horse camping area You can have fun at the social events and silent auction. ITRA publishes a calendar of the social and trail at Deam Lake SRA and conversion of part of the family The pitch-in dinners are legendary and there is always a maintenance events on our website, campground at O’Bannon Woods State Park. Members friendly campfire nearby. ITRA members are encouraged WWW.INTRAILRIDERS.ORG and they are also have worked with the Indiana DNR and legislature to put to be as active as they want to be. You could be elected to highlighted in the members newsletters and on a Class A campground in Versailles State Park. the board or work on a committee. our Facebook page.