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Blur River Park Workday 02-06-2012

It's been almost 2 years since there's been a trail work day at Blue River. The trails could use your help!  The BRP trail watchers have been hard at work over the past couple months with deberming and generally working to knock out some of the […]

Double Ogg Dare Festival 09-21-2011

Join the Johnson County Parks & Recreation District as they celebrate the outdoors while helping the Johnson County Sertoma Club launch its fund raising drive for the future Oak Ridge Lodge in Shawnee Mission Park. Plans for the former Mack family residence […]

Thank You! 08-29-2011

Thank you for all that came out for Spiderfest 2011. You helped us raise over $2000 for the ERTA trail systems! The event keeps getting bigger every year. We would like some feedback on things that we could improve on to make the event better. I think the one improvement […]

SpiderFest 2011 04-14-2010

Join us for the 4th Annual Spider Fest 2011 Run, Walk, Ride and "Earn your Dirt" Raffle!Saturday, August 20th at Smithville Lake, Sail Boat Cove ShelterThe ride, walk and run starts at 3:00 p.m. and food will be served up starting at 6:15 pm with the raffle to […]

Shawnee Rotary Club awards grant to ERTA 05-04-2011

On April 25th, 2011the Shawnee Rotary Club Foundation awarded a $1,000 grant Earth Riders Trail Association (ERTA), designated for use on the new Free Ride trail area at Shawnee Mission Park!  Present to accept this grant on behalf or ERTA were Ken […]

Elite Cycle Raises funds for ERTA! 05-04-2011

On Friday April 15th, Salsa Cycles and Elite Cycling held a fundraiser to benefit our area trails. A big THANK YOU to Salsa Cycles, Elite Cycling and to all who contributed time and money to this effort, which raised nearly $450 for ERTA!

ERTA Receives 2010 Kansas City WildLands Award 11-02-2010

On October 28th, ERTA was named the 2010 Kansas City WildLands Organization Award Recipient. Kansas City WildLands selected ERTA based on our work at Swope Park, the Blue-Swope-Connection and Blue River Park. This award centred around our ongoing partnership with Kansas […]

2010-2011 ERTA Workday Schedule 10-12-2010

Below is the tentative workdays for the 2010-2011 ERTA city-wide workdays. As the dates approach, we would recommend checking on the Earth Riders forums for updates. Also, each trail system will likely be having workdays throughout the "season". Check with the […]

SpiderFest Thank You! 10-12-2010

We would like to thank all of you for supporting ERTA in such a generous way. We had over 130 people in attendance this year! The event turned out to be a huge success despite receiving some stormy weather a few days before, which did prevent us from riding/running the single […]

ERTA Frontpage News in KC Star 06-22-2010

On Saturday, June 19th, the Kansas City Star featured the Swope Park trails and ERTA on the frontpage! The article by Star reporter EDWARD M. EVELD and photographer GARVEY SCOTT was entitled Volunteers Create Miles of Surprises. Below is the intro and links to the entire […]