04/28/2025
Here is the info for Hell Creek Loop Adopt a Section! I pinned the core info of the Adopt a Section into the featured articles area! Please consider helping us out this summer!!!
Hell Creek Loop Volunteer Maintenance Guidelines:
** Hell Creek Loop handwork sections are mostly all difficult to get to. You do NOT want to wait for the hot part of the day to work in the Hell Creek Loop!!!
**Hell Creek Loop handwork sections are longer and will require the most time commitment. Groups of two are best to tackle HC handwork sections. The buddy system works GREAT to cut the time requirement.
** Volunteering is on your own time schedule.
**Must use your own equipment.
**Annual park pass or daily vehicle permit is still required for volunteers.
**There are 5 sections to choose from.
** Section 1 is SUPER easy to access. Section 1 is the outbound and the inbound leg of Hell Creek Loop. This section starts at the Hell Creek Bridge. About ¾ mile handwork total.
** Section 2 encompasses both sides of the Mile Marker 11. Plan on about a ½ mile hike or bicycle ride in to this section. Plan on about ½ mile worth of hand work.
** Section 3 is what we volunteers lovingly refer to as the “Alley of Hell”. This section sucks you in, eats you alive, grinds you down, and spits you out. It never seems to end! Access to this section is down a very rough, NO Maintenance access road. Even from the road, it is still a 10 minute hike with trimming gear in tow. Its really not a mile long, as we refer to it. But it sure feels like it. Plan on about ¾ mile worth of hand work.
** Section 4 is at the “K” cut off, which is also Mile Marker 13. There are two ways to tackle Section 4. Start at K cut off by parking on the no maintenance road and hiking ¼ mile. Or, park on the main park road (nearest Mile 14) and take a hike up the hill via the trail and scan to the East for the Red post. Plan on about ½ mile of hand work.
** Section 5 is SUPER easy to access. Park on the main park road right by the State Park entrance sign. You will see our Red post from the road! Plan on about ½ mile of hand work.
** Please string trim around Mile Marker rocks and trail signs as you pass by them!
**Handwork sections beginning and ending points ARE MARKED by Red color painted T-Posts. Plus, the mow line up to the posts is the indicator that you are in the right spot!
**Within the handwork sections on the Hell Creek Loop, ALWAYS trim clear to a post! Sometimes, there are a few spots within the handwork sections that we can dive in and out of with the mower. Just because you come across a mowed section, do not stop! Always trim to a post!!! We do our best to help save some labor in the hand sections!
**One group of 4-5 friends could probably have all of the Hell Loop Handwork sections complete in 6-7 hours! This is a ballpark figure! It could be less or it could be a bit more!
**On the map, the handwork section has a number coordinated with it. When you decide what section you would like to commit to, please email us or FB message us what Loop and section number you are taking on!
**Commitment to a trail section is for the entire growing season.
**Share the Trail Love and Adopt A Section today!!
**The more hand work sections that are spoken for, the more energy other KTC volunteers can focus on dirt work and towards spraying chemicals for w**d control (which means less work for all volunteers!!)
**Not interested in manning a string trimmer on these sections?? We would sure accept monetary donations or chemical donations!!! Join Kansas Trails Council and make an extra donation to “Friends of the Trail-Switchgrass Trail” !!
Thanks Everyone!!!
