Current Volunteer Opportunities
Spring 2012: Volunteers Will Be Needed To Maintain Trails
Trail Work Days are the time to give back. If you’ve noticed that the trails you are hiking in Panthertown Valley are worn deep from the tread of too many boots, you can do something about it. Volunteer at one of our monthly Trail Work Days to help maintain and improve our most precious trails. You won’t be alone. In 2011, more than 1,000 volunteer hours were recorded, maintaining the trails, bridges and stairs in Panthertown Valley, installing trail markers and bulletin boards, removing trash and invasive species of plants, and planting trees.
The trails in Panthertown are always in need of some maintenance. So grab your work gloves, lace up your hiking boots and join us at a Friends of Panthertown Trail Work Day.
Check our Calendar of Events for more details.
Anyone interested in volunteering is welcome to attend – no previous experience is necessary. Tools and instruction will be provided.
Volunteers should bring: a day pack with lunch, water, and rain gear (just in case). Bring work gloves if you’ve got them, otherwise we have extras to loan out if you don’t have your own work gloves. We recommend you wear a good pair of shoes with socks when working on the trails with us.
Here’s what to expect: we usually hike about 5-6 miles – working along the way; we take a lunch break when stomachs start growling; and we usually finish up by 3pm. It’s a lot of fun and the best part is that you go home tired and content knowing that you just did your good deed for the month.
Inclement Weather Policy: the Trail Work Day will be canceled if it’s raining (or snowing).
To receive notices about future volunteer opportunities, such as work days, contact Friends of Panthertown Coordinator, Jason Kimenker at 828-269-HIKE (4453) or e-mail friends@panthertown.org. You can also subscribe to our e-mail alerts and newsletters by entering your e-mail address in the subscription box on in the upper right menu of this website.
Directions:
To Salt Rock (west entrance):
Approximately 1.5 miles east of Cashiers on US 64, turn left or north on Cedar Creek Road (SR 1120). Continue on Cedar Creek Road for 2.2 miles and bear right or northeast on Breedlove Road (SR 1121). Drive 3.3 miles until the pavement turns to gravel. Parking is limited along the gravel road, so visitors are advised to park their cars here. Continue ¼ mile on the gravel road that leads to the Salt Rock trailhead parking area.
To Cold Mountain (east entrance):
From US 64, Take NC 281 0.7 miles north. Go past the Lake Toxaway fire station. Turn left (north) on Cold Mountain Road and continue 6.0 miles. When the road ends (Canaan Land will b straight ahead) bear left on a gravel road. Then turn right on the first gravel road to reach the trailhead parking area. (If you miss the turn you’ll end up in a residential development.)
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Contact Information:Friends of Panthertown, Inc.
P.O. Box 51
Cashiers, NC 28717
Phone: 828-269-HIKE (4453)
Email: friends@panthertown.org
Website: www.panthertown.org
“Protecting and maintaining Panthertown Valley”
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