About Trail Tutors

Trail Tutors helps communities develop trails to promote healthy, active outdoor recreation for their residents, bolster tourism, and provide venues for outdoor education.  Our services cover all aspects of developing trails to achieve these objectives including:

• Visioning and creative ideation
• Grant writing and fundraising strategies
• Trail master planning and design
• Community engagement
• Construction contract administration
• Programming, lessons and coaching
• Trail maintenance management and training

Visioning and Creative Ideation

• All good projects start with good ideas
• We come up with unique and creative ways to make the existing natural environment into outdoor recreation assets
• Trailhead facilities
• Nature playgrounds
• Outdoor classrooms and content development

Grant Writing and Fundraising

• Identification of applicable grants
• Leveraging existing dollars
• Capacity-building training for sustained funding strategies
• Corporate fundraising strategies that are client appropriate

Trail Master Planning and Design

• Trail concept plan drawings, cost estimates and master plan documents
• Detailed in-the-field design and mapping
• Trail layout

Community Engagement

• Stakeholder outreach
• Working with First Nations on design input
• Community meetings
• Reporting on feed-back        

Construction Contract Administration

• Drawings, specifications and tender document preparation
• Bidding process management and contractor selection
• Construction contract preparation and management
• Liaison with trail building contractor

Program Development

• Events (races, full moon snowshoes, outdoor concerts)
• Lessons from four PMBIA certified instructors
• F-Cycle (Female group rides and lessons)
• Kids of Mud (KOM) youth mountain bike coaching
• Northgate Race Team (competition oriented training and coaching)
• Manitoba Provincial Cycling Team coaching

Trail Maintenance Management and Training

• Trail maintenance plans
• Risk management plans
• Volunteer coordination and training