MGTA celebrates a record year

On December 12, the board of directors and staff of the MGTA gathered with officials from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation to celebrate our four new sections of the Mountain Goat Trail.

All four of the sections were funded by TDEC. Three short sections—the connectors to Fiery Gizzard State Park Visitor Center and the Fiery Gizzard trailhead, and in downtown Sewanee—utilized Tire Environmental Act Program (TEAP) funds to pave the trail with a recycled-tire mixture, removing more than 8,000 tires from Tennessee landfills.

The fourth section, which completed the trail between downtown Monteagle and downtown Tracy City, was built using the special funding awarded the MGTA in 2023 by Gov. Lee and issued by TDEC.