About Wilderness Property Management / WPM Trails

Wilderness Property Management/WPM Trails provides outdoor recreation consulting and trail construction services to public and private land owners and managers. WPM Inc. develops conceptual plans, designs and constructs trails and bridges for biking, hiking, walking and skiing that are environmentally sound and provide exceptional recreational experiences.

WPM Trails specializes in design and construction of natural surface single track trail systems and trails for Mtn Biking, Hiking, Nature Trails and Backcountry & Cross Country Skiing. WPM creates trails and trail systems that meet the client's preferences and the needs of the intended recreational use. Low impact wilderness techniques are utilized to create a natural and efficient skiing, hiking or biking experience.

A specialty of WPM Inc. is working with communities to create direct connections between wild lands and community centers. This work is further advanced by designing trails and trail systems that provide excellent recreational experiences. To complete the recreational lifestyle for communities WPM Inc. has founded non-profit trail advocacy groups to provide support and sustainable futures for the new trail systems.

All trail projects are built utilizing environmentally sound and sustainable trail design and construction techniques. WPM Inc. trails provide extraordinary recreational experiences that can only be created with a lifetime of professional outdoor recreation experience.

The staff of WPM Inc. are all active outdoor people who have a passion for the outdoors and trails. The Chief Operating Officer Steve Ovitt has a degree in Forest Technology; over 40 years of construction and excavation experience; 26 years of professional outdoor recreation management as a NYS Forest Ranger; 25 years of experience supervising and participating in wildland firefighting operations, search and rescue operations and the assessing risk for these hazardous operations; and is an Adjunct Professor of Adventure Sports at SUNY Adirondack.

In 2023 WPM Trails will have created over 100 Kilometers of single track MTB trail, designed 9 MTB Parks with associated trail systems, 24 Kilometers of hiking and skiing trail, dozens of bridges and recreation plans.