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Membership Levels
As a member of the Ice Age Trail Alliance, you are part of a community helping to build, maintain and promote the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, a treasure that gives much to many.
Our basic membership category. Every dollar you contribute helps maintain Ice Age Trail Alliance projects and programs.
Your generosity makes possible the Ice Age Trail Alliance mission of creating, supporting and protecting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Thank you!
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
From trail layout and design to trail construction and maintenance, your membership at this level helps assure that we can continue to build the programs that build the Trail.
Your generosity makes possible the Ice Age Trail Alliance mission of conserving, creating, maintaining, and promoting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Thank you!
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Your membership at this level helps us secure the resources necessary to protect the Ice Age Trail across Wisconsin.
Additional benefit:
- Recognition of your support in Mammoth Tales
Your generosity makes possible the Ice Age Trail Alliance mission of conserving, creating, maintaining, and promoting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Thank you!
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
The Yellow Blaze Club honors all who have come before us to build the Ice Age National Scenic Trail into what it is today. Your contribution ensures that the Ice Age Trail will always be waiting for the next dreamer.
Additional benefits:
- Recognition of your support in Mammoth Tales
- An invitation to the annual Ray Zillmer-Henry Reuss Memorial Dinner for you and a guest
Your generosity makes possible the Ice Age Trail Alliance mission of conserving, creating, maintaining, and promoting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Thank you!
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Glacial leadership gifts have a dramatic effect on the financial and programmatic health of the Alliance and provide sustainability to our efforts on the Trail.
Additional benefits:
- Recognition of your support in Mammoth Tales
- An invitation to the annual Ray Zillmer-Henry Reuss Memorial Dinner for you and up to 6 guests
Your generosity makes possible the Ice Age Trail Alliance mission of conserving, creating, maintaining, and promoting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Thank you!
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Membership Benefits
Enjoy special membership perks as you help conserve, create, maintain and promote the Ice Age Trail.
As an Ice Age Trail Alliance Member, You'll Receive:
Gifts of $50 or more qualify for the following membership benefits:
- A copy of our magazine Mammoth Tales, mailed three times a year
- Discounts on Ice Age Trail merchandise, including our popular guidebooks
- Membership and voting privileges in a local volunteer chapter
- Invitations to participate in hikes, workdays and social activities
- An invitation to the Ice Age Trail Alliance’s Annual Conference & Membership Meeting and other special events
Learn how you membership helps the Alliance:
- Conserve land
- Build new trail
- Maintain existing segments
- Improve wildlife habitat
- Introduce people of all ages and backgrounds to Wisconsin’s wonders
How Memberships Support the Alliance's Mission
Every dollar you contribute helps maintain Ice Age Trail Alliance projects and programs.
Trailbuilding and Maintenance: From trail layout and design to trail construction and maintenance, your membership helps assure that we can continue to build miles of new, off-road tread, repair or construct bridges and boardwalks, and paint blazes and install signage.
Volunteer Support: From providing an array of trailbuilding tools – Pick Mattocks, Macleods, and Pulaskis – to offering skill-building coursework at Ice Age Trail University, it takes a dedicated, well-trained workforce of thousands of volunteers from across the upper Midwest to build and maintain the Ice Age Trail.
Land Protection: Your membership helps fulfill the vision of a continuous, thousand-mile footpath as we acquire parcels of land and close gaps along this linear park. Importantly, these acquisitions also preserve renowned glacial features which narrate the landscape story of the last Ice Age.
Land Stewardship: From removing invasive species to restoring remnant prairies, your membership helps guarantee the care and support of diverse wildlife habitat on the more than 50 properties the Alliance owns and manages.
Outreach and Education: Your membership helps us connect with tomorrow’s leaders through immersive, hands-on experiences. Wonder and awe are sparked in students and teachers as the Trail takes them past ancient glacial features and offers a lifetime of learning.
Improve the Hiker Experience: Your membership helps create a space for personal growth where natural beauty nourishes the hiker’s soul and geological wonders inspire the mind. We’re also able to support hikers through publications like the Ice Age Trail Atlas, Guidebook, and Databook, maintain the accuracy of the Ice Age Trail mobile app in partnership with FarOut (formerly Guthook), and continually add features to our online Hiker Resource Map.
Memberships play an important role in the Alliance’s bottom line.
View the 2023 Annual Report to appreciate the impact memberships have on the Alliance’s work.