Join FoOT – Become a Member!

Please Donate Your Time or Support Us Financially

Friends of the Ouachita Trail (FoOT) is an all-volunteer force. The most important thing you can do is dedicate your time to help accomplish our mission. Volunteers can either adopt a section of trail or join periodic work parties. Information on both is listed below.

To Become a Volunteer Working Member

Volunteer Working Members can Sign-up or Renew HERE

FoOT offers Volunteer Working Membership to those who contribute to the improvement of the FoOT-maintained Trails in one of the following ways:

  • ADOPTING a section of trail (see below)

  • Participating in SPECIAL trail maintenance needs {Assistance to Adopters with their adopted sections, or trail projects {shelters, bridges, tread needs,etc.}

  • Participating with an ORGANIZATION that maintains membership in FoOT

  • Serving as a member of the MANAGEMENT TEAM (Board Member, Officer, District Captain, Special Committee, Board Consultant)

  • Participating in special EVENTS (e.g. Annual Fall Maintenance Event)

To Become a Paid Member

Making a financial contribution to FoOT at our online Paid Membership HERE

Paid Membership is through one the following:

  • Paying annual membership DUES.  Annual memberships start at: Individual $25.00, Family $45, Corporate $250.  Or, Monthly Sustaining Memberships start at $5 per month.

  • Making a minimum contribution to the Trail Adoption Investment Plan (Adopt-A-Mile Project)

  • Making (or having made in the past) a financial commitment to the FoOT Legacy Endowment Fund

  • Donating funds to support a special project [greater than $25.00]

  • Making a GIFT donation [greater than $25.00]

To Adopt a Section of Trail

If you are interested in helping FoOT with the FoOT-maintained Trails, consider adopting a section of the trail! Sections marked as ‘Not Adopted’ on the Trail Conditions Report are available for adoption now. Other sections can be “split-off” from a currently adopted section and our members are sometimes agreeable to “swap” a section they had previously adopted, so if you know a section you’d like to adopt and maintain, even if it is not listed below, please contact us about it  adoptions@friendsoftheouachita.org. Whenever possible, please refer to mileages as noted in Tim Ernst’s Ouachita Trail Guide or the Trail Condition Report when naming a section you’d like to adopt.

Remember: larger sections can be divided into smaller pieces or adopted by a group, club, or team of family and/or friends. To adopt a section of the FoOT-maintained Trails, or for answers to trail adoption questions, please click the link below to begin the process of adopting a trail segment. After you complete the process you will receive your “adoption papers” and Trail Maintenance Guide.