trail ranger

Trail Rangers do lots of different trail projects: promote trails, answer questions, clip back vegetation, ride trails (and write the word “trails” a lot). Why do Trail Rangers spend some of their time removing trash?

The DC Trail Ranger team partnered with the National Park Service this summer to lead a ride series exploring the rich history of the Anacostia River Trail. We had so much fun learning about the trail!

We’re welcoming more team members to the Trail Ranger team! It has been a busy spring for the DDOT-funded DC Trail Ranger team – we’ve biked about 1,000 miles, removed more than 50 bags of trash from the trail corridors and talked with more than 750 people about trails. In recognition of this impact, the Trail Ranger team is even bigger this summer thanks to additional funding by National Park Service.

We had a blast on National Trails Day! Here’s a short film that Stone Soup Films made with us about it:

It was a busy morning on the Suitland Parkway Trail this past Monday. The Trail Rangers, DDOT Urban Forestry and Earth Conservation Corp’s crew were out giving the trail a fall cleanup. The pole lopers, pruners, bow saws and chainsaw were out in full force as we worked to give more buffer between the trail and the encroaching hillside.

In our 541 miles of riding, we’ve spent 35 hours cleaning up the trails and reporting at least 75 issues to the appropriate agency. But what do those numbers actually mean?

A great group of folks and neighbors came together with the Trail Rangers to clean both sidewalks on the South Cap Bridge.

Our Trail Ranger team shares tips on how to make DC’s 311 system work for bike infrastructure problems.

As the region digs itself out from the 2 feet of snow that fell this weekend, we wanted to provide a few updates. With such a historic snowstorm, it is an endeavor to get the transportation network back to normal. We’re doing our best to keep up on trail and bike lane conditions over on […]

The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail was alive with hearty adventurers, creativity and merriment at the Trail Ranger’s Treasures of the River Trail Scavenger Hunt.

Over 70 brave explorers came out to join in WABA’s Anacostia Riverwalk Treasure Hunt this past Saturday. Sporting costumes, colorful headwear, impressive team branding, and almost giddy excitement, the 25 teams came prepared for some serious riddle sleuthing and river wandering.

We found perfect picnic spots around every corner.

We announced earlier in the month that, with a grant from the District Department of Transportation, we’d be launching a trail ranger program. The program, which soft-launched this week, will combine outreach, communication, and data collection on all of D.C.’s DDOT-managed trails: the Met Branch, Suitland Parkway, Anacostia Riverwalk, and Marvin Gaye. Read DCist’s post on the […]