Volunteer for National Trails Day on the Mount Vernon Trail

Celebrate National Trails Day with the Friends of Mount Vernon Trail, the American Hiking Society, and Potomac Conservancy where will be improving the trail at Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on Columbia Island.

Volunteers will help pick up trash and also remove English Ivy from trees along the trail. English Ivy is an invasive species that kills trees by smothering leaves, creating rot and weighing down branches. This also increases the risk that a tree will fall on a trail user.

No special skills are needed in how to remove English Ivy. We'll teach you how to help in just a few minutes.

The event will begin with welcome remarks. Coffee will be provided.

Volunteers may perform some of the following work:

• Using pruners and loppers to cut vegetation
• Hauling away vegetation
• Picking up trash

What to Bring:

• Water
• Gloves (We'll have some to borrow)
• Pruners or loppers (We'll have some to borrow)
• Long sleeves and long pants (we sometimes encounter poison ivy)

Where to Meet:

We will be meeting at the LBJ Memorial Grove on Columbia Island.

Meet here

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Metro

The closest metro is Pentagon where it is a 1.3 mile (30 min) walk to the meeting spot. You can find directions here.

Parking

Navigate to LBJ Memorial Grove. Park at the northern end of the Columbia Island parking lot (away from the marina). Follow signs for the Mount Vernon Trail volunteer event.

Group Volunteering:

We welcome groups to come volunteer at our events. If you plan on having more than 10 people come on a particular weekend, just let us know via email ([email protected]) no less than one week prior to the day of the event. It is critical that you reach out and ensure everyone volunteering with your group registers through this EventBrite link so we can better plan work scope, prepare supplies, and promote your group’s attendance on social media. You can read more about group volunteering on our website here.

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