CORA Blog

Troy Warnken, Head Trail Steward

Springtime in Greater Cincinnati is a beautiful time. The flowers are blooming, trees are coming back to life, and the grass shines a verdant green deep into the evenings. These things urge us to be outdoors more, and we all head to the trails to shake out the cobwebs of winter.

But spring in the region also brings us lots of rain. And that means our trail stewards work overtime thinking about trail management and well, just managing the water!

As I have said many times before, managing water and the way it flows over, on, and around the trail tread is the larg...

Doug McClintock, CORA President

So, here we are.

It’s all changed, and we’re all going to have a new normal, whenever we get there. But I have had a lot of folx reach out and ask me about what the pandemic means for CORA and trails right now. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the organization and trails in general, as well as provide some best practices.

In early to mid-March, CORA suspended all group activities. This included group traildays, group rides, events, board meetings (we’re all now using Zoom, and there are some hilarious background images...), and yes, even the Trailbl...