Support the Trail

As we usher the Ecusta Trail into this exciting new chapter of its storied history, your support is vital. With your generosity, Friends of the Ecusta Trail will complete the trail’s construction alongside key amenities including parking areas, bathrooms, benches, and signage. There are many ways to give, and donations are always tax deductible.

Help us finish the trail!

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Ways to Give

When you donate to Friends of the Ecusta Trail, you are playing a role in a dream decades in the making: a vibrant natural corridor that will connect communities and bring people closer to the essential and enduring experience of being outdoors.
Friends of Ecusta Trail is a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 27-2820132.

Give Online

Make your secure donation to Friends of the Ecusta Trail.

Recurring gift

Set up a recurring gift to pledge your ongoing support.

By Check

Make your check out to Friends of Ecusta Trail. Mail the check to Friends of Ecusta Trail, P.O. Box 265, Brevard, NC 28712.

Gift of liquid securities, real estate, or estate gifts

Contact our treasurer, Debbie Tillman at [email protected] or (828)490-1854.

Making the Dream 
Real Campaign

In 2021, Friends of the Ecusta Trail and Conserving Carolina embarked on the “Making the Dream Real” campaign, an effort to raise matching funds required to access state and federal grants. By the campaign’s end in 2023, private donors had contributed an incredible $3,332,634!

Learn more about the critical ways this campaign moved our vision forward and the donors behind it.

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