teen serve cleaning adams park

Yesterday, took six volunteers from Teen Serve to help pick up trash in the trees along the trail and the rest of the upper tree terrace to the west of the community center where the trail currently turns around. We cleaned this terrace all the way to the playground and started into the lower terrace.

We got 12 bags of trash, 2 tires, and a dog kennel in 21 work hours.

Trail is walkable, rideable, though leaves have piled up and need to be raked off the trail in the first couple of tree sections.

Adams Park I.2

THOR and Activate Omaha held a Trail Day Saturday. Nearly 20 attended to work on the new singletrack at Adams Park in North Omaha.

Kent and Steve were there early. Renting a sod cutter was an awesome idea. Made shorter work on the normal back-breaking work of stripping the sod. (The sod cutting effort was helped by Dale cutting the grass before stripping the sod).


When Tom arrived, Kent and Steve were playing football with some of the neighborhood kids. A couple hours we would have them riding bikes on the new trail.

Once the sod cutter was through, the crew started rolling the sod and hauling it up to the walk. (Parks crews will move it later - they have a spot to use the sod. Don't you love it when a plan comes together!)

The new trail turns around in the woods. The rough corridor was cut. It will take another trail day to complete that section of the trail.

Photos of Adams Park I.2 Trail Day are on Tom's photo site.

At the end of the trail day, local kids and THOR members were riding the new trail which clocks in at about 0.4 mile.

adams park beginner loop flagged

I flagged the rest of the beginner loop at Adams Park this afternoon. Mowed to make sod cutting easier and to see layout if flags are removed. 3hrs onsite.

Standing near end of trail completed with IMBA.
Didn't take pic of open area beyond this leading into the turn around in trees.

Just past turn around. Returning to start along ridge line. You can also see lower trail to left.

Hope it goes well for those busting sod and benching this weekend.

Adams Park trail takes shape

From Omaha.com (Omaha World-Herald)

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Adams Park Meeting

Yesterday, THOR members participated in the community meeting to discuss trail plans at Adams Park. In the photo, Orentheian Everett (right), Director of the Adams Park Community Center, is talking with Steve and Morgan Lommele, Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew.

Director Everett, Tammie Dodge of Activate Omaha, and Kent McNeill (THOR President) addressed the attendees. Steve and Morgan gave a presentation about IMBA and singletrack trails. Representatives of the City of Omaha, National Parks Service, and the North Omaha community attended. A Q&A session was followed with a general discussion.

Watch for more information about the Adams Park efforts. Photos will be posted on the THOR web site.