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Richfield, WI snowmobile club awarded Polaris® TRAILS GRANTS

Nov. 21 2024 News By Cedar Creek Motorsports

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Today in MINNEAPOLIS, MN Polaris Inc. announced the recipients of nearly $85,000 to off-road vehicles (ORV), all-terrain vehicles (ATV) and snowmobile riding clubs, and organizations across the United States and Canada as a part of its TRAILS GRANTS program. The TRAILS GRANTS program offers support to organizations and programs that promote safe and responsible riding, facilitate trail preservation, and help protect the environment and natural resources that are a part of the off-road trail systems.


Among the winners is Kettle Moraine Snowmobile Club, located on Richfield, WI. The club stated they plan to use the funds to help with the expense of re-routing snowmobile trails to enable preservation of wetlands in the areas in Washington County the club is charged with maintaining. 


Snowmobile clubs face challenges to clear trails for area snowmobilers each year.

Swampy require the most work and can be the most hazardous when not frozen.


Association of Wisconsin Snowmobile Clubs are in need more volunteers to share the workload of preparing and maintaining trails each year. 

If you'd like to join, find out about Kettle Moraine Snowmobile Club their next meeting at Pioneer Bowl in Richfield WI on the 2nd Wednesdays of each month (September thru April) at 7:30PM

If you know a member, congratulate them for winning this prestigious grant. 


When customers purchase a Polaris Snowmobile, ATV or UTV at Cedar Creek Motorsports, your purchase subsidizes this Grant Program, and in-turn supports local riding opportunities for your family and friends.

 

Awarded twice annually, TRAILS GRANTS support the efforts of nonprofit organizations and local riding clubs who use the grant for trail development, maintenance projects, safety and responsible riding education initiatives and other projects. In April, Polaris awarded 14 organizations Spring TRAILS GRANTS, making the combined donation amount for 2024 more than $220,000.

 

9 other organizations were also named Fall 2024 TRAILS GRANTS recipients and received awards up to $10,000 each.

  • Lumberjack Memorial Trail Inc. (Wabeno, Wisconsin): Help acquire equipment needed to facilitate the brushing and clearing of a100+ mile trail system.
  • Bog Hooters ATV Club (Mechanic Falls, Maine):  Help create new segment of trail and build bridge to provide rider access to the other side of the falls and avoid crossing private land.
  • Tuleyome (Woodland, California): Help restore nearly three miles of trail destroyed by wildfires to include constructing armored crossings, inserting rolling dips and more.
  • North Routt Snow Riders (Clark, Colorado): Help fund trail grooming and maintenance.
  • Mad River Ridge Runners Snowmobile Club (Waitsfield, Vermont): Help rebuild bridge damaged by flooding to reinstate access rider services and popular waypoints.
  • Coalmont OHV Park Inc. (Coalmont, Tennessee): Help maintain, create, and connect existing trails at Coalmont OHV Park.
  • Pine Center Sportsmens Club (Brainerd, Minnesota): Help repair trails to meet safety standards.
  • VTT Club 2000 ATV Inc. (Eel River Crossing, New Brunswick, Canada): Help repair trails and support future maintenance.
  • Vermont ATV Sportsmans Association Inc. (Barre, Vermont): Update trail signage including new crossroad identification, major road intersections and waypoints, all of which will aid in the event of an emergency.

 

Polaris Donates Nearly $85,000 To Off-Road and Snow Organizations Through Its Fall 2024 TRAILS GRANTS 11/21/2024

Combined with the Spring 2024 TRAILS GRANTS, Polaris has donated more than $220,000 in 2024 and more than $3.5 million since the program's inception.

Since the start of the TRAILS GRANTS program in 2006, Polaris has supported more than 420 ATV, off-road and snowmobiling organizations across the U.S. and Canada with more than $3.5 million in donations.