Thanks to Elkin Creek Winery & Vineyard for choosing EVTA to receive proceeds from this year's Vineyard Stomp 5k fundraiser. We will put this to good use building trails in our community! And thank you to Grassy Creek Winery & Vineyard for doing the same thing last year! It won't be long before we'll be able to visit these wineries via a hike/bike "Camino de Vino" trail...just a few more miles to go!

Elkin Creek Winery & Vineyard

 

Don't forget...you can join EVTA every Thursday evening at 5:30pm for Dirty Thursdays mountain bike trail work. If you or your group would like to help us get this awesome in-town hike/bike trail finished this summer, please contact
Rob Libbert, EVTA mountain bike coordinator, for details and directions.

THANK YOU to Elkin Jaycees for a contribution that will make a really cool entrance to this part of the trail a reality. And kudos to Will Gwyn, Adam McComb, Rob Libbert and Guy Brown for developing the plan that will take the trail across the old brick bridge...

Old brick bridge discovered on mountain bike trail.

	Between Carter Mill Rd. & Brookfall Dairy Rd.

 

We owe a huge amount of gratitude to a great group of volunteers who are quietly and steadily linking our in-town Elkin trail to the upper part of the Stone Mountain Trail and the Grassy Creek Trail. Thanks to Jason Taylor, Herb McDonald, Edward Hurt, Scott Poindexter, Mike Bovender, Bob Hillyer, Joe Mickey, Mark Combs and many other volunteers and landowners for making this possible.



Kudos to Bob Hillyer, Steve Wells, Jimmy Chappell and friends for setting a new bridge over an unnamed tributary to Grassy Creek on the Grassy Creek Trail extension headed toward Elkin and by some beautiful water falls. Thanks to Jimmy Chappell and Hassell Watson at Watson Metal for their donations and hard work.

 

 

Davidson High School student returned to our area for the second year to assist EVTA volunteers in trail building and enhancement. They put up five directional sign posts made by Bob Hillyer, did some trail clearing, built water bars and rock steps across a small stream and much much more...all on some of the hottest days of the summer! Thank you, Davidson High School students for this lasting contribution to our region.

Come back next year!

 

 

 

Float info:
"Reevestock River Raft"
1pm
Ronda to Elkin sponsored and put on by:
Yadkin River Adventures
Meet at Crater Park on Standard Street in Elkin by the river
$25 all included - boat, pfd, paddle, transportation
$10 for transporting your own boat up to the put-in
$5 to just transport a person to put-in

All festival info on Reevestock.com
Gates open at 1pm
Music til 10
Nationally touring acts and local beer, wine and spirits!

For more info on the paddle and to reserve your boats or shuttle, please contact:

Yadkin River Adventures

 

The Alleghany-Sparta Trails Association has volunteered to maintain Devils Garden Overlook to Stone Mountain State Park on the Mountains to Sea Trail. Looks like they were having fun on their first trail workday!

Duck & Turtle Regatta 

Saturday, September 24 at the end of the Yadkin Valley Pumpkin Festival in Downtown Elkin. Buy your Duck or Turtle chance to win at the Elkin Farmers Market on Saturday mornings through the summer. Please contact
Joe Hicks, EVTA Duck & Turtle Regatta organizer, if you would like to donate a prize for the top winners.
All proceeds benefit EVTA!

 

Saturday, October 22.

5k trail race on Elkin trails! All proceeds benefit EVTA.
For more information and to register:
Insane Terrain