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
Saturday, December 14, 2024
at 12 Noon
Route 144, Lisbon, MD
WANTED!
Your donkeys, mules, horses & minis!
Horses must register for the Parade in advance – and space is limited!
ENTRIES ARE OPEN!
Entries CLOSE DECEMBER 9
or when 250 have entered,
whichever comes first.
Equine Entry Information
Entry Form
Liability Release
Tractor Entry Information
Tractors enter on the day of the parade but are encouraged
to print and fill out forms in advance
Tractor Entry Form & Liability Release
Tractor Information
Parade presented by the Howard County Farm Bureau, Inc.
Proceeds will benefit:
Howard & Carroll County Food Banks,
Lisbon Volunteer Fire Department, and
Farmers & Hunters Feeding the Hungry
Visit The Parade Website
Santa’s Village at Days End Farm Horse Rescue
Be a vendor at Santa’s Village. To learn more, contact engagement@defhr.org
Also, come join Anne Arundel County horse lovers at “Horse Talk” gatherings. No membership/no fees. Just come, chat, and
hear a guest speaker or two. The third Tuesday of each month, 7 PM, at Glory Days in Edgewater; run your own tab. See the
Anne Arundel County Horse Network on Facebook or contact Jacquie Cowan (<jacquiecowan@comcast.net> or 410-215-4979).
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
This is a St. Patrick’s Day Ride planned to start at 9 am and ride to Woodstock Inn. More details to come.
Please share and promote!
When
Saturday Mar 15, 2025 ⋅ 9am – 1pm (Eastern Time – New York)
Location
Woodstock Inn, 1415 Woodstock Rd, Woodstock, MD 21163, USA
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
Details and exact times will be finalized closer to the event.
Sunday Jun 22, 2025 ⋅ 10am – 4pm (Eastern Time – New York)