Trailkeepers Well-Kept – 2024 Volunteer Celebration

You gave your time and efforts to giving back Oregon’s trails this year. Now we want to give back to you!

Trailkeepers of Oregon invites you and yours to celebrate our 2024 accomplishments! This event brings together TKO volunteers, supporters, and community partners to enjoy an evening of fun, friends, and entertainment.

We hope to have volunteers from all parts of TKO join us for this event – whether you’ve been volunteering at our trail stewardship events, serving as an Ambasssador, workign on Oregon Hikers, or serving on our board of directors, we want to celebrate and appreciate you! Friends and family are welcome to join in as well. We’ll be meeting in person, indoors/outdoors, at the TKO office and courtyard. We’re starting in the afternoon to make sure we have enough daylight and there will be pop up tents to shelter us from the rain, if necessary. We’ll be providing food and there will be beverages of all kinds. We’ll be playing a highlights slideshow from the year, have thank you gifts for all, and lots of good stories along the way!

Hope to see you there!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: TKO recognizes that the trails we work on travel through the traditional lands of many Indigenous tribes and communities. We are the most recent in a long line of stewards to this land, and it is our responsibility to do so with humility and respect. We are grateful to these tribes and their descendants for being the original and continuing stewards of these spaces, and encourage everyone to go beyond a land ackowledgment by supporting Indigenous communities and organizations in your area.

ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS: TKO seeks to make our events inclusive of people of all backgrounds and abilities. If you would like to discuss potential accommodations to allow for your participation in this event, please click here to complete a short Google survey. TKO staff will then contact you to discuss options. Please note: available accommodations will vary by event and typically need to be requested a minimum of two weeks in advance. If you have any questions, please contact TKO Stewardship Manager Lindsay McIntosh-Tolle at lindsay.mcintosh@trailkeepersoforegon.org.

EQUITY & INCLUSION: TKO seeks to make Oregon’s trails a place where people can go to connect with nature & one another. Not everyone feels safe or welcome in the outdoors due to issues like racism, bias, and hate. We commit to being part of the solution to this problem and to enact change. Conduct, speech, or expressions that target any individual or group will not be tolerated by TKO.

PERSONAL SAFETY: Your physical and emotional safety is our number one priority. If a person’s actions or comments make you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, you may: interrupt directly, tell a crew leader, and/or inform TKO staff via the post-event survey.

While TKO no longer requires masking/vaccination for our events, we do support those who choose to mask for their own safety. We ask participants to respect the health of folks who wear masks by distancing or wearing a mask while in close proximity.