
Most BC trails are a team effort. A city, a regional district, or the Province usually owns the trail. A volunteer society fought for it, raises money for it, or comes out each spring to clear it. Here are 49 of those societies, in six regions, picked for the paths, rail trails, and gravel that touring riders love. Back the ones whose trails you ride.
Want the stories behind them? Read Who to thank for our BC trails, our Thanksgiving Field Note.
Donations go directly to each organization, not to the BC Cycle Tourism Society. Where you see “tax receipt,” the organization is a registered charity. Donations to the BC Cycle Tourism Society are also welcome, contact us for details.
A small crew in a big region, from Wells to Bella Coola.

A small volunteer crew in Wells, next door to Barkerville. Most of their work is grooming the Cornish Mountain and Meadows ski trails, and they welcome bikes and boots too. Membership is twenty dollars a year, and it goes straight to trail upkeep.
Big country, volunteer-run trails from Hazelton to Tumbler Ridge.

They're building a 12 km paved trail between Telkwa and Smithers, so everyone in the Bulkley Valley can ride between the towns without riding Highway 16. Construction is underway, and your donation helps finish the trail.
Sea to Sky, the Sunshine Coast, and the trails around the city.

Squamish's in-town trail people. Volunteers keep the gravel paths between neighbourhoods brushed, resurfaced, and clear of fallen trees, and their Brush Back Brigade meets every month but August. A registered charity, so your donation gets a tax receipt.
Island societies from the Cowichan Valley to the Discovery Islands.

Salt Spring Island's pathway builders since 1988. Their Salish Sea Trail vision links the island's ferry terminals with paths separated from the road, and you can give directly to the trail fund.
Rail trails and greenways through the Okanagan and Shuswap.

The volunteer friends behind 52 km of continuous rail trail from Kelowna's waterfront along Kalamalka Lake to Coldstream, one of the easiest and loveliest rides in BC. Donations fund trailheads, benches, and the trail's next improvements.
Rail trails and valley paths, from the Boundary to the Rockies.

Fifty kilometres of gentle rail trail through the Slocan Valley, from Slocan Lake to the Kootenay River, kept rideable by volunteers who fix the culverts and sinkholes an old rail line throws at them. Donation boxes wait at every trailhead if you prefer to give as you ride.
If you know of an active trail organization we're missing, please let us know.
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