Stags – JORBA

Access Nature Forum – Through discussion making the outdoors more inclusive

March 5, 2024

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Join us for an insightful discussion by Tom Hennigan from the JORBA Trail Association. He will discuss how to provide access to native surface trails in the backcountry and adapt universal trail design principles to include a broad spectrum of trail users. He will also provide an introduction to adaptive mountain biking and discuss guidelines…

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Northwest New Jersey Rivers Conference Adaptive Mountain Bike Presentation

February 7, 2024

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Access Nature Forum Presentation by Tom Hennigan This presentation was meant for the NWNJ Rivers Conference on September 30, 2023. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. A special thanks to Peter Dolan from the New York New Jersey Trail Conference for stepping in to take my place.

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Save the Trail, Ban the Blower

October 15, 2023

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Howdy everyone, hope you had a great summer season of riding! As we come into another beautiful fall, we hope you all can get out on the trails. We’d like to put out a reminder and have you all spread the word for us about the seasonal leaf drop and trail impact. Last year we…

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JORBA in the News

November 27, 2022

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Stags Adaptive MTB Ribbon Cutting

November 7, 2022

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Stags Stage 1 is Complete

September 3, 2022

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JORBA Receives Two for the Trails Grant From Athletic Brewing

July 20, 2022

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Stags Project JORBA’s Stag project in Jungle Habitat receives the Two for the trails grant from Athletic Brewing. Athletic Brewing The great outdoors is Athletic Brewing’s favorite place to be with an ice-cold brew. They created their Two For The Trails program to make an impact – Athletic Brewing donates 2% of all sales to…

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Progress on Stags Tapawingo in Jungle

July 9, 2022

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The Stags section of Tapawingo is nearing completion.

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JORBA is a Santa Cruz PayDirt Recipient

June 10, 2022

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Santa Cruz’s PayDirt initiative has named 11 organizations as the new funding recipients for 2022. Encompassing a wide variety of projects—from mountain bike mentorship programs to adaptive trail- and kid-focused trail building to all-weather trail networks. The new PayDirt recipients are stand-out additions to the program’s $1 million pledge to fund projects that create and…

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JORBA Awarded Fox Factory Trail Trust Grant

May 3, 2022

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The grant was awarded for Stags, NJ’s first adaptive mountain bike trail. Stags will be New Jersey’s first accessible trail for adaptive riders. Originally conceived as a reroute around an unsustainable section of the legacy Hewitt-Butler trail in Jungle Habitat, Stags was designed to reduce the number of turns to avoid building separate trails for…

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Stags aMTB Trail

February 20, 2022

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Stags is the next section of the Tapawingo project. A joint project of the NY-NJ Trail Conference and JORBA to upgrade and connect the trail network Long Pond Ironworks State Park and Norvin Green State Forest. Originally conceived as a reroute around an unsustainable section of the legacy Hewitt-Butler trail. Stags would connect the Tanks and Cages trails…