Talon Trails News

Talon Trail Systems is now Talon Trails LLC and a sole proprietorship. With this change comes the same value and quality as before with a renewed commitment to trails.

The Raystown Lake, PA, job went well and ahead of schedule. Ryan and Susan ran a DW SK650 to install most of the signposts on the ~30 mile trail system, and Dewayne ran an SK500 doing finish work.
In PA, Dewayne ran an excavator to help dig ditches to create an elevated tread, break […]

I’ve been working in the Wissahickon Valley of Philadelphia in Fairmont Park these past two weeks. The Friends of the Wissahickon hired IMBA a couple of years ago to help with their Sustainable Trails initiative. The users of this park include hikers, bikers, dog walkers, and equestrians, and they use the trails year […]

The crew of Talon Trails is now in PA working on a mountain bike specific trail at Raystown Lake, an Army Corps of Engineers’ property. The Friends of Raystown Lake are the customer, and Talon Trails is subcontracting under IMBA for this project. There are three companies using five machines working 10-12 hours […]

The crew of Talon Trails met in Park City, Utah, for the bi-annual IMBA World Summit, a four day meeting of trail advocates from many US states, Canada, Mexico, and nine other countries. We sat in on several sessions as well as a meeting of IMBA trail builders, their contractors, and interested parties. […]

Talon Trails just finished the work at Steiner Ranch in Austin and at Carl Barton Jr. Park in Conroe north of Houston. The work in Conroe consisted of designing and building over 10,000 feet of natural surface trail in the land that couldn’t be used for baseball and soccer fields…in other words the drainages to […]

Work continues at Steiner Ranch here in Austin with a 1.5-mile trail that connects seven different neighborhood access points to their community center. The development itself is 90% complete with 400 houses left to build in the next two years. Talon Trails will still have maintenance work to do there, as the HOA […]

Dewayne flew up to Waterloo, WI, this past week (April 21-26) where Trek Bicycles is headquartered for some consultation work. He spent two days on thoroughly assessing the signage, the filters (in this case technical trail features at intersections,) sustainability, the trail ratings system, & potential new trail.
Two other days were spent […]

As you can tell by the title of this update, the staff of Talon Trails has been splitting its time between three different area. December and January had us working on trails in the Spring (Houston) area for the Timberlane Utility District.

In Austin, we did some maintenance work on trails in a subdivision in […]

Now that I’m back from my business travels, I get to work on neighborhood trails in Spring and Austin. The work in Spring was on some Timberlane Utility District greenbelt along Cypress Creek. When completed, the trail system will be comprised of about five miles of trail in this area, and the grand scheme […]