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Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association (MTVRA) is pleased to present our 2025 Year Recap, highlighting the significant efforts and achievements in our mechanized trail maintenance program across the state of Montana. Our non-profit group’s help was instrumental in the implementation of numerous projects, forged partnerships, and challenges overcome to ensure the continued accessibility and sustainability…

Single-track trails getting some much needed mechanized maintenance over the past couple weeks. Maintenance completed in direct partnership with the Helena Ranger District portion of Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. This has been a long and successful partnership that has resulted in much needed upkeep on our public trails in the area. Singletrack maintenance requires…

Nearing the end of the 2025 riding season, MTVRA partnered with the Billings office of Bureau of Land Management – Montana/Dakotas to complete some much needed mechanized trail maintenance over the past couple weeks. MTVRA was able to provide the contractor team with the trail dozer to assist in tackling mechanized trail maintenance on public…

Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association was able to work on a trail section in the Little Belt Mtns in September in direct partnership with Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. MTVRA was able to provide the contractor team with the trail dozer to assist in tackling mechanized trail maintenance on a trail near the Showdown ski…

Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association was able to work on a mechanized trail maintenance project in direct partnership with the USFS Yellowstone Ranger District, part of Custer Gallatin National Forest. MTVRA’s portion of the project assistance lasted 2 weeks in mid-September. MTVRA was able to provide the contractor team with the trail dozer to assist…

Hegben Lake Ranger District was the site of a 2 week project for one of MTVRA’s contractors during the beginning of September. This saw mechanized trail maintenance completed on several trails near the West Yellowstone area.

MTVRA’s decades-long partnership with USFS resulted in mechanized trail maintenance over the past couple of weeks in the Madison Ranger District of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Lobo Mesa trail saw the majority of the work this year. It began with tracking the equipment in 11 miles to the end of that 50″ trail and completing…

Trails in the Big Belt Mtns – Helena Ranger District saw some additional much-needed love in August. MTVRA was able to schedule 2 additional weeks helping the Helena Ranger District with trail maintenance on some fire scorched areas to the NE of Helena, MT in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. This successful and long-standing…

A little more finesse was required for MTVRA’s contractor working on a project with the BLM Butte office these past couple weeks. BLM had some mostly single-track trails that hadn’t seen any real love in a number of years. Our contractor was able to use a small mini-excavator to help repair sections as directed by…

Last week saw one of our contractor groups team up with the Belt Creek / White Sulphur Springs Ranger District of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest to complete some trail maintenance projects in the Little Belt Mountains.