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
Registration Form Available HERE
You can rent a stall and stay multiple days or just join for a day ride.
Please join in the tradition of an annual fall ride in the 5600 acres of what is known as Fair Hill
NRMA. This will be a private ride for people that enjoy the trails, good times around the
campfire and no drama. I have reserved stalls and camp pads for my friends for this event.
Due to a unknown participant last year that could not follow the rules, anybody that has not
been on a previous ride must have a referal from a past attendee.
Registration form must be filled out for everyone on the premises for this event. Adult and
horse with a stall is $75, Child and horse is $65, Adult riding, no stall, trailer in $15. There is a
$10 fee for any non riding any adult for the event to cover the required insurance
cost/expenses. No charge for children accompanied by registered adult. Stalls are available
Thursday(after 3 pm), Friday and Saturday night to include one bale of straw and cleaning by
the local 4-H kids. Camp pads are $105 for the weekend and field camping is $20 per night per
rig. Must be checked out by 3 pm Sunday.
I will be riding at 10 am on Fri & Sat for about four hours with a lunch break so you can join in
or ride on your own. Sunday ride will be 10 – 1. There will be no photographer or food served
during the weekend. If you want to eat, bring your own food or find someone that likes to
cook. Coggins are required. Let’s get back to a simple way of enjoying good times with
friends. RSVP by 9/6/23.
Any questions– 443-553-6184 or joann.bashore@gmail.com
Fair Hill PARK EMERGENCY NUMBER … 410-218-1698
CURRENT NEGATIVE COGGINS … bring for each horse and be prepared to show.
BEDDING is STRAW ONLY(one bale provided) and all stalls used by horses must be bedded.
Bring your own horse and stall care supplies including grain, buckets, hay, cleaning tools,
wheel barrows, hoses etc. Cecil County 4-H kids will clean stalls Sunday afternoon.
EMERGENCY STALL CARDS need to be on the front of your stall. CAMPING is in the field
around and adjacent to the barns and on either end of the camp pads at the treeline.
Quiet time is 10 pm – 6 am. Generators must be off per park rules.. Please park in a manner
that will not disturb others.
Campfires must be in raised containers. Firewood is not permitted to be brought into the
premises. Firewood can be purchased on site for $5 per bundle.
Wristbands, stall cards and pad assignments will be mailed by 9/13/23.
Registration Form Available HERE
You can rent a stall and stay multiple days or just join for a day ride.
Please join in the tradition of an annual fall ride in the 5600 acres of what is known as Fair Hill
NRMA. This will be a private ride for people that enjoy the trails, good times around the
campfire and no drama. I have reserved stalls and camp pads for my friends for this event.
Due to a unknown participant last year that could not follow the rules, anybody that has not
been on a previous ride must have a referal from a past attendee.
Registration form must be filled out for everyone on the premises for this event. Adult and
horse with a stall is $75, Child and horse is $65, Adult riding, no stall, trailer in $15. There is a
$10 fee for any non riding any adult for the event to cover the required insurance
cost/expenses. No charge for children accompanied by registered adult. Stalls are available
Thursday(after 3 pm), Friday and Saturday night to include one bale of straw and cleaning by
the local 4-H kids. Camp pads are $105 for the weekend and field camping is $20 per night per
rig. Must be checked out by 3 pm Sunday.
I will be riding at 10 am on Fri & Sat for about four hours with a lunch break so you can join in
or ride on your own. Sunday ride will be 10 – 1. There will be no photographer or food served
during the weekend. If you want to eat, bring your own food or find someone that likes to
cook. Coggins are required. Let’s get back to a simple way of enjoying good times with
friends. RSVP by 9/6/23.
Any questions– 443-553-6184 or joann.bashore@gmail.com
Fair Hill PARK EMERGENCY NUMBER … 410-218-1698
CURRENT NEGATIVE COGGINS … bring for each horse and be prepared to show.
BEDDING is STRAW ONLY(one bale provided) and all stalls used by horses must be bedded.
Bring your own horse and stall care supplies including grain, buckets, hay, cleaning tools,
wheel barrows, hoses etc. Cecil County 4-H kids will clean stalls Sunday afternoon.
EMERGENCY STALL CARDS need to be on the front of your stall. CAMPING is in the field
around and adjacent to the barns and on either end of the camp pads at the treeline.
Quiet time is 10 pm – 6 am. Generators must be off per park rules.. Please park in a manner
that will not disturb others.
Campfires must be in raised containers. Firewood is not permitted to be brought into the
premises. Firewood can be purchased on site for $5 per bundle.
Wristbands, stall cards and pad assignments will be mailed by 9/13/23.
Registration Form Available HERE
You can rent a stall and stay multiple days or just join for a day ride.
Please join in the tradition of an annual fall ride in the 5600 acres of what is known as Fair Hill
NRMA. This will be a private ride for people that enjoy the trails, good times around the
campfire and no drama. I have reserved stalls and camp pads for my friends for this event.
Due to a unknown participant last year that could not follow the rules, anybody that has not
been on a previous ride must have a referal from a past attendee.
Registration form must be filled out for everyone on the premises for this event. Adult and
horse with a stall is $75, Child and horse is $65, Adult riding, no stall, trailer in $15. There is a
$10 fee for any non riding any adult for the event to cover the required insurance
cost/expenses. No charge for children accompanied by registered adult. Stalls are available
Thursday(after 3 pm), Friday and Saturday night to include one bale of straw and cleaning by
the local 4-H kids. Camp pads are $105 for the weekend and field camping is $20 per night per
rig. Must be checked out by 3 pm Sunday.
I will be riding at 10 am on Fri & Sat for about four hours with a lunch break so you can join in
or ride on your own. Sunday ride will be 10 – 1. There will be no photographer or food served
during the weekend. If you want to eat, bring your own food or find someone that likes to
cook. Coggins are required. Let’s get back to a simple way of enjoying good times with
friends. RSVP by 9/6/23.
Any questions– 443-553-6184 or joann.bashore@gmail.com
Fair Hill PARK EMERGENCY NUMBER … 410-218-1698
CURRENT NEGATIVE COGGINS … bring for each horse and be prepared to show.
BEDDING is STRAW ONLY(one bale provided) and all stalls used by horses must be bedded.
Bring your own horse and stall care supplies including grain, buckets, hay, cleaning tools,
wheel barrows, hoses etc. Cecil County 4-H kids will clean stalls Sunday afternoon.
EMERGENCY STALL CARDS need to be on the front of your stall. CAMPING is in the field
around and adjacent to the barns and on either end of the camp pads at the treeline.
Quiet time is 10 pm – 6 am. Generators must be off per park rules.. Please park in a manner
that will not disturb others.
Campfires must be in raised containers. Firewood is not permitted to be brought into the
premises. Firewood can be purchased on site for $5 per bundle.
Wristbands, stall cards and pad assignments will be mailed by 9/13/23.
Trail ride on Sunday, 9/24 to Farmacy Brewing (3100 Black Rock Rd, Reisterstown, MD 21136). Ride time will be 11:00 a.m. from Upperco, MD (literally, the adjoining farm – address provided to participants). This ride will be on all private land (with owner’s permissions). It will be approximately a one hour ride to the brewery, we will spend approximately two hours there (bring your ID and credit card), and then approximately a one hour ride back.
Mountain Trail Challenge, Double C Farm (Clarksburg)
see doublecfarm.net for more details
Mountain Trail Play Day at Double C Farm (Clarksburg)
see doublecfarm.net for more info
Callithea Farm Trail Ride, Hike and Picnic – Sept 16 3 PM
Free for TROT, PBHTA, and Callithea members. Feel free to bring friends- but we will ask for a $5 donation.
We will have guided trail rides for different levels depending on number of . We will be riding the Muddy Branch /Blockhouse Point Trails- the trails are quite easy, not a lot of rocks- you may need to cross a bridge or river depending on the route you take.
We will offer a hike to overlook the C and O Canal and Potomac River from the farm for non-riders.
We will aim to be back around 5 PM and will start the picnic at that time. Please bring drink or a dish to share. We hope to have a bonfire and music (dependant on how dry the area is on Oct 14th).
You have to RSVP to cmicek@christinamicek.com. We hope to get RSVPs by October 10th.
Mountain Trail Play Day at Double C Farm (Clarksburg)
see doublecfarm.net for more info