2011 West Bragg Creek K-Country Trail Building
The GBCTA is building trails in west Bragg Creek K-Country! After an 18-month planning process that included multi-stakeholders, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) and Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation (TPR) formally approved the Trail Plan on September 14th, 2010.
The Plan includes: • 40 km of new summer trails for hiking, biking and horse-back riding (also snow shoeing in winter), • 8 km of new snowshoe trails, • 17 km of new cross country ski trails, • Widening of an existing ski trail for skate skiing and other improvements.
Summer Trail Development Map
The WBCASTP can be viewed at Alberta Parks
Construction underway
The Greater Bragg Creek Trails Association (GBCTA) in partnership with TPR, the Calgary Mountain Bike Alliance (CMBA), Friends of Kananaskis Country and others is leading the implementation of the Plan. The estimated cost to construct the 65 km of new trails in the WBCASTP is $600,000. The estimated number of volunteer hours to construct the new trails is 3,000.
The Snowshoe Hare Loop, a 5.4 km snowshoe trail, was completed in November 2010 and was extremely popular throughout the snowy winter of 2010 – 2011. Several new summer trails and a cross-country ski trail also commenced clearing in September 2010. Volunteers cleared a total of 11 km of new trails during the fall of 2010, before winter conditions halted construction.
If you are interested in providing financial support to implement the Plan, please contact Eric Lloyd of the Greater Bragg Creek Trails Association at elloyd@davincibb.net, (403) 949-2696 or Box 442, Bragg Creek AB, T0L 0K0.
Summer 2011 trail work
During 2011, all 40 km of the new summer trails in the WBCASTP are slated for completion, provided the necessary funding and approvals are secured. The estimated cost to construct the new summer trails is $300,000. The estimated number of volunteer hours to construct the new summer trails is 2,000.
Troy Delfs and Bryce Hleucka, the Construction Managers completed new summer trail routing design work in April 2011. Construction is now underway with volunteers hand-clearing the trail width and a mini-hoe contractor building the trail tread.
Volunteers needed
Rod Saville, the Volunteer Coordinator, in cooperation with Friends of Kananaskis Country, is organizing regular volunteer work parties. Volunteers are required for: • Crew leaders – lead regular work parties on weekends or week days. • Trail volunteers – hand clearing alders, brush and small trees.
To be added to our volunteer list, please contact Rod Saville at rsaville@barrick-energy.com or (403) 513-2451.