Midgard Trails LLC
Midgard Trails is a consulting and training company specializing in Sonoran Desert trails and offering services throughout the Valley
Consulting Services
- Sustainable trail design for new natural surface trails and reroutes of existing fall line trails
- Assessment of existing trails to identify and map fall line, sustainable, and armored areas to direct maintenance and rerouting efforts
- Social trail control and closure plans
- Trail counter system planning and implementation
- Digital trail map management (Google Maps, All Trails, Trailforks, etc.)
- Trail signage and decals design and implementation
On-site Training
- Desert trail maintenance techniques
- Trail design and sustainability
- Hand construction of natural surface, full bench trails
- Rock work armoring techniques
- Trail signage installation
- Crew leadership techniques
- Trail closures and renaturalization techniques
- GPS tools for trail management
Midgard Trails is led by Taylor Riske, a certified Trail Technician through the Trail Skills Project
10+ Years of Experience in Trails
Eight years of experience as a land manager in desert mountain preserves working full time to manage a trail system with over 130 miles of trail and millions of yearly trail users
20 trail build projects designed and constructed
Personally designed and led crews in hand construction of 20 sustainable natural surface trails over the past five years including over a dozen reroutes of existing fall line trails
Over 31 miles of trail closures
Specializing in social trail closures and management of existing trail systems with a background in Psychology and a research paper completed on social trails and closure techniques
400+ volunteer trail events planned and led
Eight years of experience leading weekly volunteer trail crews in trail maintenance, social trail closures, new trail construction, armoring projects, and signage installation
Trail trainings completed for multiple municipalities
Over a dozen trainings led for City of Phoenix and City of Tempe Park Rangers programs in addition to hundreds of volunteer trained over the past eight years
