Celebrated on the first Saturday of June, National Trails Day (NTD) evolved from the findings of a report issued by President Reagan's Commission on American Outdoors.  Completed in 1987, the report recommended that all Americans should be able to walk out their front doors and within 15 minutes be on trails that wind them through their cities or towns through parks and forests and back, without having to retrace their steps.  This recommendation was the driving force behind several public and private agencies working with the American Hiking Society to launch NTD in 1993.

Every year since then, more than a million hikers, bikers, equestrians and others join to take part in more than 3,000 events across the county.  This year on NTD, the Greenway is teaming up with the Issaquah, Redmond, and Southcenter REI stores to improve the quality of the trails in our area.

Here in the Greenway, we're lucky to have over 1,600 hundred miles of trails.  One of the gems of this extensive trail system is the popular Little Si trail.  This relatively new trail was built in 1985 and winds to the top of the small peak to the southwest of Mt. Si.  The trail wasn't designed for the amount of use it has received in recent years, and it has been degraded to the point where it is in dire need of help.  We need lots of volunteers to reconstruct the trail so that it can support more heightened use.

Sign up here to join the Greenway and your local REI store as we spend National Trails Day transforming the Little Si trail into a safe and sustainable trail for everyone for years to come!