STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Got questions about how local hiking and biking trails are shaping up for the summer?

Members of the Wood River Trails Coalition will be hanging out at South Valley Pizza from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, to chat about the upcoming trail season.

Fifteen percent of all sales at South Valley Pizza that night will go to the Wood River Trails Coalition to help it with local trail building and maintenance.

“We are working with the Bureau of Land Management to bring new trails to the South Valley, so this will be the first time we’re just hanging out in Bellevue answering questions,” said liz Pedersen. “This will be more information than the pub talk we held a week ago at Sawtooth Brewery.”

The evening will give the WRTC an opportunity to offer memberships and acquaint Bellevue resident with what the Trails Coalition does, Pedersen added.

Hang Tight-Hang Loose, one of the new trails Wood River Trail Coalition helped with, is open for business, the snow having melted on the trail that overlooks the Cutters neighborhood of Hailey. Other trails that have been greenlighted include Hailey’s Quigley Loop, the Belle Vue trails in Slaughterhouse Canyon and Silver Linings, which climbs above the Toe of the Hill Trail between the Community Campus and Hailey’s Keefer Park.

The nonprofit Wood River Trails Coalition plans to build a 6.5-mile trail in Lee’s Gulch near Bellevue this summer, in addition to scheduling work parties for volunteers to pitch in and help maintain local hiking and biking trails.

To learn more, visit https://woodrivertrailscoalition.org/.