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2025 National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council Year In Review
We began the year with a strong partnership between National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council (NOHVCC) and Chinook Associates to promote and host a series of webinars designed for volunteer trail crew leaders and professional trail crews. Over two weeks, participants attended five focused sessions. NOHVCC continues to collaborate with this organization to have them deliver NOHVCC Great Trails Workshops.
NOHVCC focused on improving its website to make it more user-friendly and visually engaging. The goal was to continue to improve our effectiveness in sharing information that contributes to the best outcomes for OHV recreation.
The 2025 Great Trails Workshop series in Oregon proved to be far reaching and effective. With over 30 attendees and strong enthusiasm for the upcoming riding season, the first workshop set a positive tone for the year. It also provided NOHVCC staff with valuable time on the ground in the community selected to host the 2025 NOHVCC Annual Conference.
A NOHVCC staff member attended the Utah Trails Conference. Some of the valuable experiences from that conference were incorporated into planning for our annual conference.Likewise, some of our personnel participated in the International Trails Summit in Wisconsin and were able to report on important trends and developments with trails generally.
Some personnel changes this year led to NOHVCC developing a new approaches to accomplishing their mission.We revised our approach to Great Trails Workshops, developing a new model that uses highly qualified contractors to present our curriculum.This approach allows us to offer even more workshops each year and produced a very successful workshop season.
Moon Rocks, located in the North Reno Recreation Area, has experienced a significant increase in visitation over the past 30 years. Popular holiday weekends, such as Memorial Day, draw up to 5,000 visitors to this 20,000-acre OHV recreation area. With this growing use, the need for a dedicated area for EMS, fire, law enforcement, and OHV education has become increasingly urgent.
Recognizing this need, NOHVCC approached Paul Amar, Outdoor Recreation Planner with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carson City District, to explore opportunities for improvement. NOHVCC applied for and was awarded funding from the Right Rider Access Fund, allowing for the first phase of upgrades to begin in June 2025.
To date, 160 tons of road base aggregate have been delivered and used to revamp the OHV Administrative Staging Area. This project includes the development of a new helicopter landing pad and an OHV education area. Aggregates have also been used to improve access to the Learners Loop, creating a smoother and safer approach. Additionally, boulders will have been delivered to establish a clear perimeter, enhancing safety by delineating travel routes from the learners loop. In collaboration with NOHVCC, upgrades have occurred in the following also updated signage for single-track trails, rock crawling areas, side-by-side (SxS) routes, and educational displays.
NOHVCC conducted a Great Trails Workshop in Minnesota in partnership with Dick Dufourd of RecConnect, author of the Great Trails guidebook. The two-day workshop drew strong participation from Department of Natural Resources staff.
July featured two Great Trails Workshops—one in Canada and one in Wyoming—led by newly contracted instructor Jason Wells of Sasquatch Trails. His workshops received excellent reviews and introduced new ideas and expanded hands-on opportunities. Participants enjoyed learning from the Great Trails guidebook while also benefiting from more extensive field-based instruction.
Turmoil in government led to some postponements and challenges this year.Federal and some State employees were affected by the federal shutdown leading to lost (or postponed) opportunities and limited coordination.Even so, we were able to adjust, remain effective and successful as we continued our mission during the shutdown.
NOHVCC staff helped conduct the COHVCO Roundtable in Grand Junction, Colorado. With more than 70 attendees, the event demonstrated resilience and growing enthusiasm during challenging times.
Using a conference committee model, our team of staff and board members spent a great deal of time developing and coordinating our annual conference.Officials from Oregon were key contributors to the conference which proved to be well-organized with meaningful content and excellent opportunities to discuss issues and network among stakeholders.Feedback from attendees indicated that it was an excellent conference that focused well on informing and meeting the needs of stakeholders in OHV recreation.
NOHVCC has been active in developing or revitalizing State Associations.We worked with enthusiasts in Ohio to create a new OHM association there. We partnered with the Pennsylvania OHV Association to revitalize their organization to increase their effectiveness.Stakeholders from across Pennsylvania were able to participate to help guide the revamped organization’s operations and goals. We’ve undertaken an initiative with New Mexico to support the evolving needs of the OHV association and clubs in the state.
As part of the New Mexico initiative, and through information discussed during the annual conference, we learned of a need to undertake a program in several states to bring outlier groups into the fold by getting them to adopt the goals, values, and requirements of the state associations and state officials.This is being identified as a critical need as some groups have been operating with little regard to official requirements or safe and responsible behavior while operating OHVs.The poor behavior is significant, and deliberate steps must be taken to improve this situation.The notion of NOHVCC taking on a role to facilitate bringing the groups together to develop greater understanding and compliance is well-supported.We wish to follow through with this initiative this winter using remaining funds allocated to association development.
Looking ahead to 2026, NOHVCC has an ambitious slate of projects, including up to eight Great Trails Workshops, an association development, another project to address outlier groups, the Sand Dunes Summit, the Annual Conference, and several other initiatives.
To read articles this past year on projects please click the links below for more information:
