MnDRA’s Trail Fund is available for MnDRA ride venues – parks, trails, and campgrounds. Funding comes in part from the member’s annual dues ($2/member). Also, funds come from donations and from approved allocations from the general fund. MnDRA donates to ride venue every other year (2021, 2023, 2025, etc).

MnDRA Ride venues currently include the following: St. Croix State Park, Governor Knowles State Park (Trade River Equestrian Campground), Maplewood State Park, Forestville Mystery Cave State Park, Three Rivers Parks Crow-Hassan, Pillager State Forest, Huntersville State Forest, Zumbro Bottoms State Forest.

The MnDRA Board added the role of “Trail Liaison” to the duties of MnDRA’s Vice President. The responsibilities of this position are to help facilitate grant requests for MnDRA ride venue parks, trails, and campgrounds for projects. This includes overseeing, administering, coordinating, and awarding grants. The Trail Liaison works with members, ride managers, park management, and may also partner with other organizations such as UMECRA (umecra.com) and the Minnesota Trail Riders Association (mntra.org) to improve Minnesota horse trails, parks, and campgrounds.

The most recent venue to received monies from the MnDRA Trail Fund was Zumbro Bottoms State Forest.

Prior years’ funding has been awarded to:

• St. Croix State Park
• Duluth Trails
• Pillsbury State Forest
• Three Rivers Park District
• Governor Knowles State Park (Wisconsin)