Work is extending Rotary Canyon trail in Beaver Creek

Havre Trails, with the help of a Montana Conservation Corps trail building crew, is cutting a new trail this week into the hills of Beaver Creek Park.

This trail breaks off the already popular upper Rotary Canyon loop trail and winds its way down a ridge towards Beaver Creek. 

After more than two years of planning and working with the Beaver Creek Park Board and the park superintendent the new spur trail has come to fruition, Havre Trails President Lindsey Brandt-Bennett said.

Brandt-Bennett says that the purpose of this new trail is for people to access Rotary Falls from the north. Havre Trails extended the popular lower Rotary Canyon loop last year, adding a 2.5 mile upper section, and this spur trail is a continuation of that work. 

Montana Conservation Corps Trail Crew Leader Tyler Strogoff is building the trail into the hillside with the help of four other Montana Conservation Corps employees. The group is out of Helena and will spend five, nine-hour days this week cutting tread and digging drainages to complete the quarter to half-mile trail out and back trail extension. 

Havre Trails is looking at expanding the trails network across the park in the near future and is still deciding on what areas that will be in. If anyone has suggestions on possible locations for new trails they can send a message to http://www.facebook.com/HavreTrails, or send an email to [email protected].