Club News

November/December Newsletter

All of the information that you need to plan your next couple of months of walking! Click here to read the current newsletter: November – December 2022 Newsletter    

The Holiday Lights Festival returns! Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 3rd for our annual Lights Walk. KANEKO at 11th & Jones in Omaha is graciously hosting the club, with plenty of room to spread out and offer cookies, hot drinks and over 100 items for a holiday raffle! Thank you to The RiverFront for sponsoring the walk. This year, there’s no fee to walk, so grab your friends, family and leashed pets and come between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to starting walking 5k or 10k with us. Be sure to save some time and check out all the family-friendly activities a few blocks away at the Gene Leahy Mall at 13th & Farnam, also sponsored by The RiverFront.

July – August 2022 Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is available here: July – August 2022 Newsletter 

Three important things (besides seeing all the gorgeous pictures!):

  1. The deadline for registering for the 10 a.m. Saturday, July 30th Junto Wine Group Walk in Seward, NE is Monday, July 25th. We need to know how many lunches we need to order! Please register here: Junto Wine Walk registration  Be sure to bring a lawn chair with you. Plug this address into your GPS to find us: 1356 182nd Seward, NE 68434 (between Lincoln and Seward).
  2. Our next club activity is a 5k Group Walk of the “Veterans and Libraries” seasonal walk, which starts at the Memorial Park Rose Garden. The walk starts promptly at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, August 30th, so come a bit early to pay your $3 (exact change, please!) and sign the registration form.  This seasonal walk is normally only available via the Online Start Box, so this 5k Group Walk might be the chance you’ve been waiting for to walk this fabulous route.  The Rose Garden is best approached from Robert H. Storz Drive, approximately at N. 57th and Underwood Avenues.
  3. After our September 10th walk at Flanagan Lake (more details at 2022 Walk Calendar), our first club meeting of the season will be on Monday, September 12th at 7 p.m. at a BRAND NEW LOCATION! Maple Ridge Retirement Community has graciously invited us to meet at their facility at 3525 N 167th Cir, Omaha, NE 68116. Be sure to plug that into your GPS, as it’s a bit tricky to get in there. It’s a bit NE of N. 168th and W. Maple Road.

Welcome, July!

Volunteers ready to welcome Gene Leahy Mall Walking Tourists on July 4th

We had a great time working with The Riverfront on Independence Day to welcome the public back to the great multi-use space that is the Gene Leahy Mall in downtown Omaha. If the stormy clouds kept you home, here’s the official walking tour map for you to download and use the next time you visit downtown Omaha.

On Saturday, July 30th at 10 a.m., we’ll be leading a 5k walk at beautiful Junto Wine, a winery between Seward and Lincoln. The exact address is 1356 182nd, Seward, NE 68434. The cost is $3 (exact cash or use Venmo) for the walk and we do need you to preregister, since we’ll be serving complimentary boxed lunches after the walk. The winery will open their tasting room definitely at noon, and maybe a little before? Register here: Junto Wine Walk registration  Leashed dogs are welcome to accompany us on this somewhat hilly walk through the vineyard’s mowed paths. If you’re staying for lunch, you’ll want to bring a picnic blanket or a lawn chair.  

Early season look at the hiking trails

Spring Road Trips and Local Road Construction

Apologies – this post got stuck while we were transitioning to the new website!

If you subscribe to our Trail Mail occasional e-newsletter, you’ve already seen this information. But, just in case you don’t (and why don’t you?), here’s a quick rundown on our next 4 walks.

Our next 4 walks will require a little planning and maybe some carpooling, since they’re all out of the Omaha metro area.
  • Tuesday, April 26th, 10 a.m. – Apple Blossom Festival Walk. Meet in the Arbor Day Farm Parking lot (2611 Arbor Avenue
    Nebraska City, NE 68410) at least 15 minutes early to take care of paperwork and pay the $3 walking fee. 5k Group Walk, with a 10k option. Join us after the walk for lunch at Porter’s Barbecue. Already in the past!
  • Saturday, May 14th, 8:30 – 11 a.m. registration – Honeybees in the Heartland 5k or 10k walk. The start for the walk is in Auburn Legion Memorial Park, 1101 J Street, Auburn, NE 68305.  Walk on your own or with a group. Register online at https://forms.gle/5a5kon8C5szSJevo6, pay $3 cash when you arrive or $3.16 by Venmo.
  • Saturday, May 14th, 1 – 3 p.m. registration – Heartbeat of the Heartland 5k or 10k walk. The start for the walk is at the Harris Picnic Shelter in Humboldt Lake Park, Humboldt, NE 68376. Walk on your own or with a group. Register online at https://forms.gle/ZHEveJzJJoQ56gNv6, pay $3 cash when you arrive or $3.16 by Venmo.
  • Saturday, May 21st, 9 – 11 a.m. registration – Northwest Nebraska Volksmarch 5k or 10k walk. The start for the walk is at the Chadron State College Student Center, Shelton and 10th St., Chadron, NE 69337. Register online at https://forms.gle/nxG2RwC3rcKfCWKP7 .  The cost to walk is still only $3 cash when you arrive or $3.16 by Venmo.
If you play to attend the May 21st Chadron walk, you’re going to want to line up lodging in the area. The Chadron Chamber of Commerce offers some choices as to where to sleep here: https://www.chadron.com/list/ql/lodging-travel-14  
 
Why not plan to make a weekend of walking? Chadron offers another year-round walking event (printable brochure here) and our club’s seasonal walk at Agate Fossil Beds is another 70 miles away (printable brochure here).
 
As always, our walks are held rain or shine, so dress for the weather!

 

 

 

 


ROAD CONSTRUCTION ALERT!

S. 84th Street is under construction between Dodge Street by Methodist and Farnam Drive, blocking access to Indian Hills Drive from the south. To get to club meetings held at Morning Star Lutheran Church at 331 S. 85th Avenue, you’ll have to go to 90th Street to access Indian Hills Drive from the west or drive along W. Dodge Road to 84th Street and turn south to Indian Hills Drive.

January-February 2022 Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is now available here: Jan – Feb 2022 newsletter  Our club members get the full newsletter, delivered right off the presses directly to their email inboxes. Just a reminder: membership dues for 2022 are due right now.  Mail a check for $10 for a single membership or $15 for a family membership to: NWFT, P.O. Box 8147, Omaha, NE 68108

Our Annual Dinner meeting will be held on January 15th – reservations were due before the publication of this notice. Our 2022 Officers will be installed and the 2021 Walker of the Year award will be awarded. 

Our next regular club meeting will be held at Morning Star Lutheran Church, 331 S. 85th Avenue, Omaha, NE in the upstairs chapel area at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 7th. If you read the newsletter, you’d know that our scheduled speaker for February is on “Ollie the Trolley”! Be sure to bring a mask to wear while at the meeting, as requested by our host.

Our next scheduled group walk will be an indoors walk at the Westroads Mall on Saturday, January 22nd at 9 a.m. Cost is $3 per walker; come 15 minutes early to pay (exact change!) and sign the waiver. We’ll meet on the 2nd floor at the play area by Penney’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods. There’s a entrance door tucked away by Penney’s – you can use that to come inside.

Everyone who has lived in these parts for a while knows that Nebraska winters are very unpredictable. What do you do if there’s a 40F degree day and you want to walk and we don’t have anything scheduled? Well, we’ve got 11 Year Round Walks just for you – some right close and some a bit further away. Check out all of our Year Round Events and start planning on those 4 Seasonal Walks at this page on our website: Seasonal and Year Round Events  Invite a friend, take the family or walk on your own – they’re all great walks that you can do anytime you feel the urge to walk!