Welcome to Trail Angel Central – Your GO TO site for Trail Angels and Hikers to Connect for Success!
Update – March 2024
The organizers of Trail Angel Central are still off adventuring, this time in a sailboat for a few months. We encourage anybody who wants to more actively engage with hikers with this site contact us and offer to help maintain the website and database of Trail Angel lists that we now have created. We can grant Word Press editing permissions to persons interested in taking over this role during this 2024 hiking season as we are distracted to focus on Trail Angel organizing at this time. You can contact us by sending an email to TrailAngelCentral@gmail.com.
Volunteer Help Needed for:
Certainly maintaining the list of Facebook trail angel groups for hikers to use would be helpful to many hikers. There might be need facebook trail angel groups, or ones that are no longer active or other resources you can add.
Maintaining lists of angels on the PCT and other Google Spreadsheets.
Getting the word out to hikers about this website and resources we can provide.
We plan to be at our cabin in the California Sierras near Kennedy Meadows North offering trail angel services to PCT hikers later this summer. We don’t really have a backup for Trail Angel offerings in the Pinecrest area when we are not there. This mostly leaves hikers to use just the Kennedy Meadows North Resort services. We certainly encourage other angels in the Sonora Pass corridor to jump and offer trail angel services to hikers anytime!
Update January 2024 – Another year as we expand our efforts to new trails.
In the past few months we have connected with the Arizona Trail and the Florida Trail to learn about their trail angel connections and share best practices. We have learned so much from both the trail organizations and some angels. We have been able to contrast how different trail associations and organizations set and define policy and acceptance / promotion of trail angels. We will be writing a future newsletter to explain some of these discoveries. We also have done some various hikes on the Arizona Trail, CDT, and now the Florida trail.
Update – December 2023 –
Newletter #3 was just published. Here are some of the highlights”
ROAD TRIP!
Trail Angel Central organizers are off on a major road trip this winter via our built out van. During our travels we hope to connect with several other trail angels and also provide trail angel offerings to those on our road trip path.
Route and connect plans:
We plan to travel thru southern California and then head East toward New Orleans and Florida starting in California early December 2023. We plan to cross the southern USA and hit trail crossings and trail towns on portions of the CDT, Arizona Trail, and explore other less know trails where the some Trail Angel organizing is just getting started. Even a smaller 100-200 mile multiple day hike trip can benefit from the generous support of trail angels. The TrailAngelCentral.org website and mission is to help hikers and trail angels connect for both short and longer well know trails. We also hope to connect with other trail angel organizations that have already in place on trails like the CDT and the Arizona trail and learn from their experiences and share those best practices.
Connect with us!
We would like to connect with as many Trail Angels / organizers as we travels eastward. If you would like connect with us, please text (650) 793-0475 or email us at TrailAngelCentral@gmail.com with your names, locations and connect options and we can see how we can coordinate a meetup.
Update – September – 2023
Trail Angel Central Newsletter #2 was just published! Please read it HERE and also sign up to get future Newsletters to stay informed.
We are hosting hikers at our cabin in the Sierras now. Please visit the Trail Angel Cabin website at SonoraPassTrailAngel.org website for complete details.
Pinecrest Trail Angel Cabin Open for Summer 2023
In late May 2023, we finished the first 650 miles of the PCT and headed to our cabin to host hikers. Our cabin is located in Pinecrest California, about 37 miles west of Sonora Pass / hwy 108 trail junction and about 27 miles west of Kennedy Meadows North on Hwy 108. We have hosted now about 25 hiker sand several other guests and friends and family. We can host hikers here until we get back on trail or do mobile trail angeling on the PCT.
Hikers are starting to come thru the Sierras and we hosted 9 hikers the other hike in the second week of July.
UPDATE: April 2023 –
Starting in March 2023, Trail Angel Central has increased its activities in many ways. First we have paid for the monthly business hosting so you won’t get annoying ads anymore. We have outfitted a van that we will be using while we both hike and angel on the PCT this spring and summer 2023. Look for our van on the PCT! Maybe we can offer you some magic or other Angel help!
We have already started this angeling this spring by helping provide dinners and assistance at the PCT Southern Terminus and the campground at CLEEF starting in late March until April 4th. We will be alternating hiking and angeling for Spring and Summer 2023 sharing information about the TACO project.,
Additionally, we have been engaging with many PCT hikers during evening hiker dinners at the CLEEF campground right before they start on the trail. We are encouraging all hikers and angels to help spread the word and value of TrailAngelCentral.org website.
We are encouraging Angels on Facebook to mention the TrailAngelCentral.org website as an alternative to the Facebook Angel Groups as a well to connect with hikers. Please view the new PCT and other Trail – Trail Angel pages as Angels start to enter their information to connect.
TACO???
TACO – To help folks remember Trail Angel Central, we have heard that we can be thought of as “T.A.C.O” – Trail Angel Central Organization! Please spread the word to help create and expand this valuable hiker/angel resource for all.
HELP!
We need your help! Getting trail angels to list their contact information and offerings on the spreadsheet has been challenging. We are asking both hikers and Angels to please encourage all angels to view this site and check out the various listing options available to them.
We understand that some angels don’t want to list their direct contact information in the spreadsheet. To avoid direct cell/email information, one can enter into the PCT Angel Spreadsheet their name and describe that the best way to contact them is via a specific Facebook group. If you know of other resources for angels like a list at a Hardware store, etc, feel free to enter that into the appropriate Angel spreadsheet page.
History
This site was started in July 2022 and will be a work in progress during the summer of 2022 and beyond. We welcome your feedback to make it better. Please fill out our contact Page form to contact us for any reason. We recommend you join and get your name and email listed so we can contact you with information about trail angeling and other events that we plan to host in the future.
We look forward to getting your input to make this an excellent resource for Trail Hikers.
To achieve our goal to connect trail angels and hikers for success, we are asking everyone to please take one or both of the surveys to give feedback we can share in the future.
Website Navigation
This website is designed from day 1 to support Trail Angel and Hiker CONNECTION and success for all of the major USA hiking trail systems. Initially this will include:
PCT – AT – CDT – AZ Trail
To find and share resources for a trail, please FIRST select the Trail, then select the desired service options.
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