Trail Rides
Please come out to enjoy a TROT trail ride and consider leading a ride yourself! TROT trail rides are fun and a great opportunity to learn new trails, meet other TROT members, and find a new trail riding buddy. To lead a ride, contact our trail ride coordinator, Trot Activity.
To participate in a scheduled ride:
- Contact the ride leader to sign-up and learn the ride’s starting time and other details.
- If a ride is postponed or cancelled, the ride leader will notify you.
- Check the TROT website and TROT and Maryland Trail Riders listservs for the most current ride information.
- All ride participants:
- Helmets are encouraged
- Provide appropriate documentation of current negative Coggins test for the horse, in compliance with Maryland state law.
- Be a TROT member – One-day TROT memberships are available at the ride for $5
If you need a ride to the event or can offer one, please email Trot Activity, so that this information can be included in an upcoming newsletter, or contact the ride leader.
Trail Maintenance
Anytime you are on a trail ride and if safe to do so, you can perform trail maintenance by clipping branches that impede passageway along a trail. In addition, you can participate in scheduled trail maintenance days.
Carolann Sharpe is the TROT Adopt-A-Trail coordinator and she has challenged all TROT members to perform two hours of trail maintenance a year. Please contact Carolann for additional information about participating in trail maintenance activities. She can be reached at president@trot-md.org.
Please report your trail work hours to Amy, who tracks this information for the state; these hours also help assess park usage.
Calendar
SPRING FLING AT Tuckahoe Equestrian Center
Fri, Apr 19 – Sun, Apr 21, 2024, 12:00pm-2:00pm
TUCKAHOE EQUESTRIAN CENTER
Paige Davis-Perez (302) 593-5317 Paige0771@msn.com
Come join TEC for a weekend of comradery and trail riding in the beautiful Tuckahoe Forest. Guided rides will include a fast-paced ride, gaited/medium-paced ride, or slow ride. Weekend camping available. Check-in starts at noon on Friday. Members, Non-members, electrical sites, stalls, and pipe corrals additional. Dinners and breakfasts included. Children under 12 are free. Ages 13-18
Join us for a trail ride! Sign up below and look for a confirmation email (check spam if you don’t receive it). A signed waiver and proof of negative Coggins papers are required to participate. Click here to download the waiver. Read and sign it, attach it to an email and send it back to us at RSVP@epicmontgomery.org. Bring proof of your negative Coggins test for each horse to all horseback riding activities.
Questions? Email us
Spring Trail Ride: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Rain date: Sunday, April 21
On the Trails of Dry Seneca
Trail Ride: 11:00am / Lunch: 12:30pm
Signup and details below
https://epicmontgomery.org/sign-up-for-a-trail-ride
PARKING AND ACCESS NOTE: While there is unfortunately no designated trailer parking at Dry Seneca, there are about 4-6 trailer parking spaces along Sugarland Road (two or three on each side), where Sugarland Road separates Ladds’ Loop from Sugarland Loop. If you haven’t been there and are planning to use them, we suggests that you scope them out by car beforehand to make sure you are comfortable with it. There is also a larger parking area at the State Park on Montevideo Road, just south and east of the one lane bridge at Rocklands Farm, that can be used to access the park itself and the southern portion of the EPIC Dry Seneca Creek trail system. A drive-by to scope out the area before arriving with your trailer is also recommended. For more information on parking for Dry Seneca Creek, riders can contact EPIC VP Tom Gutierrez by emailing info@epicmontgomery.org. Happy Trails! there is no trailhead parking, there is limited parking at the entrance to the Seneca Creek State Park on Montevideo Road, some parking along old River Road and some parking along Sugarland Road near the trail crossing.
Date: This Sunday, April 21st
Ride Out Time: 10:30 AM PROMPTLY (plan arrival accordingly)
Location: Patapsco State Park, McKeldin Area
We will be riding to the Woodstock Inn, a favorite watering hole of area riders. It has dedicated hitching posts saying “Horse & Mule Parking Only” in their main parking lot as well as 4 hitching posts in a secluded spot. They will also have motorcycles and cars. And a freight train line runs alongside the parking lot, but you can eat at outside picnic tables to be with your horse.
The ride will begin at McKeldin Park’s dedicated horse trailer parking (with rest rooms, mounting block and hitching post close by), going along their well-maintained multi-use trails, with beautiful views as you climb in and out of river valleys.
As we go to the restaurant, you may encounter walkers, dogs on leashes and bike riders, and there are two water crossings plus a railroad track crossing. The ride is 1.5 hours one way at a nice, slow walk.
After lunch, a walk-trot group can split off and get back in 30-40 mins. In total, this should be a 4-5 hour day.
As always, this ride is free to TROT members. Non-members are welcome to join for $10.This ride is by RSVP ONLY, as we will only be taking 15 riders MAX. Thank you in advance.
Must RSVP to Carolann Sharpe for exact location and more informatio
Sunday, May 12 Trail Ride…celebrate Mother’s Day with friends and your horse at the NORTH TRACT of the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge … for a scenic ride along the dirt roads with Elizabeth and Sandy…there are some gravel areas, so shoes or boots are recommended for tender footed horses … bring a lunch for after at the trailers … per TROT policy, helmets for adults are optional, required for under 18… trailer parking is limited, so trailer pooling is recommended… rsvp for time and directions jacquiecowan@comcast.net / 410-215-4979 … https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/NT%20Internet%20map.pdf
Late morning start time.