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Sept 30, 2019 // Board of Directors // Staff 2018-19 OCT 1, 2018 - SEPT 30, 2019 // BOARD OF DIRECTORS // STAFF Susan Vigland Julie Clark President Executive Director Chris Gallagher Casey Ressl Vice President Development Director Ross Hammersley Brian Beauchamp Secretary Communications & Policy Director Linda Cline Chris Kushman Treasurer Planning & Management Director Chris DeGood Deb Westphal LETTER Past President Office Manager Meg Ackerman Chris Deyo FROM THE Administrative Assistant Jessica Alpers Caitlin Early PRESIDENT George Bearup Annual Gifts & Special Events Coordinator Brian Fisher Madison Meter Laura Galbraith Annual Gifts Coordinator (former) Sara Harding Kate Lewis What a banner year 2019 was for TART Trails! Trail users rank our trails as some Community Engagement Manager of the finest in the country. In fact, our trail network was showcased to athletes Matt McDonough from across the globe during Traverse City’s first Half Ironman event with Kerry Winkler Wayne Olsen Communications & Outreach Specialist glowing reviews. Trails help us appreciate nature, provide access to scenic views Rick Simonton Janna Goethel and wildlife, improve our health and fitness, connect us to people and places Intern and bring impressive economic value to our region. Mike Tarnow Don Cunkle Recycle-A-Bicycle Program Director You are reading this Annual Report because you understand and support the compelling benefits of trails. You believe in TART’s mission of providing and promoting a trail network that enriches people and communities. With your continued support, we will accomplish great things in 2020. We will Thank you to Kelley Peterson for her years of complete the Loop around the Boardman Lake, plan the next phase of the service to the TART Trails Board of Directors! Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, resurface portions of the TART Trail and continue We hope to find you enjoying more time skiing planning connections between Traverse City and Charlevoix with our dedicated and running on some of your favorite trails. community partners. It’s a privilege to serve this organization and our community as Board President. Thanks to our outstanding staff, engaged board, committed partners, devoted volunteers and passionate trail users, TART’s future is strong as ever. Be sure to CONNECT WITH TART TRAILS join the ride in 2020! Enjoy the trails, // traversetrails.org // @TARTTrails // facebook.com/TARTTrails // @TARTTrails Susan Vigland — TART Trails Board President 2 traversetrails.org // BENEFITS OF TRAILS // NEW TRAIL IN TOWN BENEFITS STUDY OF PARALLEL TRAIL A little while back, TART’s Brian Beauchamp TRAILS IN LEELANAU took a road trip down to Bentonville, Arkansas with fellow trail enthusiasts COUNTY from Northern Michigan Mountain Bike Association and Bike Leelanau to learn Last year, TART Trails was thrilled to present more about the bustling trail town where Walmart has made its mark in the trails a year-long Benefits Study of Trails in world. One of the ideas that stuck with Leelanau County. this road crew was a singletrack trail built along the Razorback Greenway, Bentonville’s local version of the TART Trail. Campfire conversations quickly turned into boardroom discussions with our friends at Bike Leelanau and the Northern Michigan Throughout 2019, TART Trails worked Visitors and health care professionals Finally, all respondents agreed that Mountain Bike Association and we all with researchers from the University of stressed that the trails help make the increased investment in the two trail agreed this was too good of an idea not to Florida’s School of Forest Resources and community healthier and reduce overall systems to sustain their high quality and replicate in our community. Conservation to interview and survey health care costs in the region. In fact, increase their connections through the health care professionals, business leaders health professionals argued that increased region would increase the benefits the Thanks to the generous support of the and trail users from near and far. The trails provide to the community. Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation, extensive study showed that trails create as well as the hard work of a crew of We are grateful to the Edmund F. and a sense of community, add an extra layer People who have increased volunteers led by TART Trails Ambassador Virginia B. Ball Foundation who generously of tourism, support a health conscious physical activity, time outdoors and NMMBA Board Member Chad Jordan, provided the funding for this study. atmosphere year-round, and extend the to de-stress and more social time are a new trail is coming to life. The Parallel seasonality of many businesses, among living longer, happier lives. There are very Trail, a nickname that has stuck, now runs many other benefits. few things that combine these pillars of a parallel to the Leelanau Trail between Fort longer life better than trails. Get out there Rd. and Revold Rd., a four mile stretch that Health care professionals, business leaders, on our trails and live it up!” takes advantage of the rolling, wooded and the users themselves believe these terrain of the existing trail corridor. trails help define the area and give the — Dr. Doug Spence, Munson Hospital Traverse region a sense of being an active The trail is a natural surface singletrack for community. Specifically, business leaders mountain biking in the summer months and partnerships and improving access of believe the trails enhance the sense of was groomed with special equipment for the trails to more citizens would be an community among residents. fat biking this winter. A long-term vision is excellent preventative health care strategy Learn More to extend this Parallel Trail to further points for people struggling with obesity, heart south as the terrain allows. disease, and other ailments attributed About the Study Research shows that a $104 to living a sedentary lifestyle. Research A summary of the study along investment in trail maintenance shows that for every investment of $104 with more detailed findings can of the LT and SB trails is in maintenance and trail amenities on the be found online at: equivalent to a $555 investment in a public Leelanau and Sleeping Bear Heritage Trails www.traversetrails.org/tart- health program. would require a $555 investment in public trails-benefits-study health programming to match the impact of trails on community health. traversetrails.org 3 // BOARDMAN LAKE LOOP // BOARDMAN RIVER TRAIL Township and the strong and continued COMING FULL support of so many individuals and REJUVENATE JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY CIRCLE businesses that we are within sight of a The Boardman River Trail benefited from beautiful improvements in 2019. Thanks to the support completed Loop. In addition to leadership of donors, sponsors and volunteers, we were able to complete a new trail segment from Meadow Thirty years ago, local visionaries embarked from these local units of government, public Pavilion Park to Beitner Road. This new section has a footbridge, 300’ of sturdy boardwalk and on a bold plan to create a non-motorized funding from the Michigan Department runs along the now free-flowing Boardman River. The trail helps to connect previously isolated pathway around Boardman Lake. The trail of Transportation, the Michigan Natural parks and trails that are south of Traverse City providing a place of respite and rejuvenation just concept was led by the outside the city. likes of Ted Okerstrom and others who envisioned a We are looking at 2020 to continue cross country ski trail that this trend by completing a Hoosier would also be accessible for Valley segment. It will be comprised walkers, runners and bikers of dirt roads, two-tracks and a new in the warmer months as a trail and bridge over Jaxon Creek, a way to celebrate outdoor tributary of the Boardman River. This recreation and support a section will link existing trail from strong economy all year. the north at Beitner Road to the They saw a way to celebrate south at Mayfield Pond Park. Keep the four seasons we enjoy your eyes open for announcements and share the story of a of new sections of trail openings river and its connection to and continued Boardman River Trail our past and our future. improvements! Fast forward to present day and there is no doubt these early visionaries got it right. Resources Trust Fund and over $500,000 in private funding is helping pave the way for With over 100,000 visits each year, the what will be a significant community asset Boardman Lake Trail has become a for all of us to enjoy, and feel proud of for beloved corridor for local residents looking generations to come. With an easy connection via the to escape to the woods for a walk around Boardman Lake Trail, I can go Countless individuals and organizations the neighborhood or use the trail as part from my house to the new Boardman River have joined our government partners to of their daily commute to school or work. Trail in minutes and with ease. While only step up and together, finish what those Kids come to sail at TACS at Hull Park, a few miles from downtown, I feel light- visionaries set out to do so many decades community members go to shop at Oryana, years removed from the hustle and bustle, ago. visit the library, or enjoy a great brew at a immersed in nature on one of the most nearby establishment along the trail. When diverse trail experiences around. Plus, the Loop is completed and connects to aside from paddling, the Boardman River NMC’s University Center, Logan’s Landing Trail provides the most unique vantage and multiple businesses along Cass Road, point for exploring this amazing river valley we expect those numbers and the benefits as nature reclaims what was once here. the trail brings to soar. There’s nothing else like this around and it While the wait has felt like an eternity and has certainly become my can’t-miss trail the setbacks have been challenging, it is experience for any out of town guests!” thanks to partners at the City of Traverse — Shawn Winter, Trail User City, Grand Traverse County and Garfield 4 traversetrails.org // VASA SKILLZ TRAIL // FUTURE PROJECTS TWO LOOPS, TONS OF FUN FURTHER DOWN Your support is helping us launch THE TRAIL… projects both big and small.
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