Offsite Day

Thursday, April 17

11:30 am - 4:30 pm
Babcock County Park

Logistics

  • Your Summit registration includes 3 $5 vouchers for food trucks and the beer tent! Food trucks will also be doing direct sales. (please note: attendees must check-in at the check-in booth when they arrive at the Offsite Day to receive their meal vouchers)

  • Complimentary and continuous shuttles will be available to and from the convention center to Babcock County Park

We have a 2 acre area where attendees can demonstrate mechanized equipment or swing a tool and a large hard-surface parking area and grassy areas to test out other trail equipment.

Equipment to expect:

  • Mini-excavators

  • Mini-skid steers

  • Articulating loader

  • Tracked buggiesStone-crushing / stump grinder equipment

  • Variety of hand tools to test in the field

  • Ford Bronco to ride on course

  • GRIT Freedom Chairs

Exhibitors & Dirt Demo

Check out these exhibitors and test out their machines & trailbuilding equipment in the dirt demo area!

  • Areté Structures, LLC

  • Bedford Reinforced Plastics

  • Blue Ridge Land Design

  • Ford Bronco Wild Fund

  • Dane County Parks

  • engcon North America

  • FarOut Guides

  • Full Sun Services

  • GRIT Freedom Chair

  • Ice Age Trail Alliance

  • Kafka Granite

  • Legacy Trails

  • LHD Machinery

  • NICA

  • Pixel Trail

  • SEPPI M. USA

  • Shapeshifter Tool Co

  • Trails Unlimited

  • Vermeer Wisconsin

  • Wagners CFT LLC

Food & Beer Vendors:

Your Summit registration includes 3 $5 vouchers for food trucks and the beer tent! Trucks will also be doing direct sales.

(please note: attendees must check-in at the check-in booth when they arrive at the Offsite Day to receive their meal vouchers)

Free Non-Alcoholic Beer!

Food & Beer

Thanks to Athletic Brewing for donating a variety of their yummy non-alcoholic beers for the Offsite Day!

Delta Beer Lab will also offer $1 back for all beer sales during the offsite day as part of 1% For the Planet.

Join us for some hands-on educational sessions in a field setting during the Offsite Day! These sessions take place in the dirt demo area (unless otherwise noted). Free to attend and no pre-registration necessary!

1:00-2:00 pm & 3:00-4:00pm (unless noted below):

  • Hand Building Full Bench Trail

  • Drones for Trail Assessment, Planning, and Design

  • Trail Layout Using A Clinometer

  • Setting the Tone: The Power of the Tailgate Safety Talk and How to Prepare and Give Them Effectively (1-2pm only)

  • Ergonomics for Trail Work: Hands-on Approach to Getting More Done with Less Fatigue and Fewer Injuries (3-4pm only)

Educational Sessions:

Summit Schedule-at-a-Glance

Monday, April 14:

  • Registration open

  • Pre-Summit Technical Training Workshops

  • Pre-Summit Field Trips

  • Pre-Summit Meetings

  • Exhibit hall set up

Tuesday, April 15:

  • Food included: breakfast, AM break, lunch, PM break, happy hour apps

  • Registration open

  • Opening plenaries and keynote address (morning)

  • Concurrent sessions (afternoon)

  • Exhibit hall (full day)

  • Happy trails hour + poster presentations in the exhibit hall 

Wednesday, April 16:

  • Food included: breakfast, AM break, lunch, PM break

  • Registration open

  • Concurrent sessions (full day)

  • Exhibit hall (full day)

  • World Trails Film Festival (evening, Monona Terrace Lecture Hall)

Thursday, April 17:

  • Food included: breakfast, AM break, lunch (food trucks offsite)

  • Concurrent sessions (morning)

  • Offsite Field day (included in registration) with transportation provided (afternoon)

  • Takeover Night at Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. in downtown Madison