The mountain-riding season is coming up and the annual Blacks Creek Work Weekend is upon us. 

Date: April 5-6, 2025 

Time: Saturday 9:30 am Rider Meeting, 10:00 Head out 

Location: Blacks Creek 1/4 mile past Bender Creek OHV trailhead 43.53049, -115.86427

Work Details: The US Forest Service has granted Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation and TVTMA to go in BEFORE the gates to the Danskin trails are opened up to the public to perform brush clearing, trail work, and tree clearing on all the trails Blacks Creek riding area. We don’t anticipate two days of work, but depending on how many volunteers come out and the amount of work that needs done, it could float over into Sunday.

This is a Work Event ONLY. This is not an invitation to come ride the area before it’s open to the public. Riding in the closed area outside of event activities is prohibited and may result in penalties from law enforcement.

Dinner Details: We will have a fully-catered dinner for all work participants around 5:00 pm Saturday evening. As always the club will have fried chicken, macaroni salad, potato salad, rolls, and some cookies for all the volunteers. If you volunteer in any way for this event, you can eat! We could use some volunteers for food serving and cleanup too.

Who Benefits: Much of the money raised by your efforts on Saturday will be donated to various pro-multiple use access advocacy groups such as the Idaho Recreation Council and The Blue Ribbon Coalition.

What to Bring: If you can, please bring a small shovel, hoe or similar tool. If you can carry a chainsaw or brush cutter, then please bring it. A few chain saws are needed. If you are able to safely carry a “trail tool” such as a Shovel, Pulaski, Hoe, or McCloud, on your bike, even better. Nobody will carry tools for you.

Please bring a digital camera or a cell phone with a camera! We need before and after photos. We will have small notebooks for each trail crew (please make detailed notes so the club can fill out all the trail forms to submit to the Forest Service).

The weather is supposed to be perfect! Heck, it’s always perfect in Idaho! Please dress accordingly.

Again, you will need to ride your bike to work sites on the trail system so please bring your bike, riding gear, trail food, water, etc.