Join the Metroparks Trail Challenge! Sign up, set a goal, and hit the trails for your health and wellbeing, while making friends and memories along the way. Everyone enrolled in the Trail Challenge is invited to participate in a Facebook group to share photos, experiences and words of encouragement to others. As always, ALL miles count toward your goal, regardless of where you choose to recreate – miles in a Metropark, in your neighborhood, a City Park, on vacation or anywhere outdoors that you are purposefully accumulating miles.

Trail Challengers receive:

• Wooden hiking stick with green paracord grip
• Metroparks Toledo Trail Challenge sticker
• Opportunity to earn hiking, biking, park stickers and invitations to earn special stickers
• Entry into private Trail Challenge Facebook group

*If you're just renewing for the $5 fee, you'll receive the sticker rewards.

Get Outside Yourself

• Registration Fee: $25 [Register]
  • OR Renew your challenge for only $5 [Register]
• Runs: January 1 through December 31, 2025
• Set your goal(s)

How to Earn Stickers [Sticker Catalog]:

• Hiking, walking, running 100 miles: One sticker awarded per 100 miles.
• Biking 100 miles: One sticker awarded per 100 miles.
• Park stickers: Hike every trail at a park and receive a sticker for that park. 19 Metroparks.
• Paddling: Available to those with their own canoe, kayak, or stand up paddleboard. Can also rent a kayak or attend a Metroparks *program.
• Tree climbing: Attend a tree climbing *program.
• Archery: Available to those with their own archery equipment. Participants can also rent archery equipment or attend a Metroparks *program.
• Special Stickers: be on the lookout for special stickers available for a limited time!

*All stickers will be available at the Manor House front desk during regular business hours.

Download the Tracking Form [Excel] [PDF]

Questions? Contact customer service at 419-407-9700 or use the 'contact us' form on the website.