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Northwest Trails Snowmobile Club seeks continued sponsorship from Corcoran to secure DNR Grant-in-Aid funding and maintain 200 miles of trails
Summary
Colin Brown, trail administrator for Northwest Trails Snowmobile Club, requested Corcoran continue sponsorship of the club so it can receive Minnesota DNR Grant-in-Aid funds that support volunteer maintenance of nearly 200 miles of trails. Councilmembers agreed to share maps on city website and consider communications support.
Colin Brown, trail administrator for the volunteer Northwest Trails Snowmobile Club, asked the Corcoran City Council to continue serving as sponsor for DNR Grant-in-Aid funding that supports club trail maintenance and marking.
Brown said the club is a volunteer nonprofit that manages nearly 200 miles of snowmobile trails in the area and relies on a state Grant-in-Aid program funded by snowmobile registrations and gas taxes. He explained that because state grants cannot be issued directly to the nonprofit in some cases, a municipal sponsor (the City of Corcoran) is the usual intermediary for administering the funds. He told the council the club works with about 45 captains who mark trail sections and with roughly 200 landowners who permit the trail corridors.
Councilmembers thanked the club for volunteer maintenance, and several suggested the city promote trail maps in seasonal newsletters and add a downloadable map to the city’s maps web page. One councilmember offered to contact Polaris employees who maintain a mapping app used by the snowmobiling community. Brown said the club uses a digital mapping format (GIX) and that he and his colleagues would be happy to provide a map that could be linked from the city website ahead of winter.
There was no formal council action recorded; councilmembers indicated informal support for continued sponsorship and communication assistance.
