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:
To Become a Paid Member
Making a financial contribution to FoOT at our online Paid Membership HERE
Paid Membership is through one the following:
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.