Trail Maintenance Workday
Sat, May 15
|Dam Spillway
On Saturday, May 15th, we’ll meet at the dam spillway to work from 8-11AM. All age groups are welcome and all volunteers will be required to wear face masks and to maintain social distancing. If you have them, bring shovels, rakes, tampers, and especially wheelbarrows.


Time & Location
May 15, 2021, 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Dam Spillway
About the Event
For the past several years, the Friends of Royal Lake has organized periodic days when neighborhood volunteers have worked on maintenance of the trail that goes around Royal Lake. However, when the pandemic lockdowns began, this came to a screeching halt, and the work-day planned for late March last year was postponed indefinitely.
Now that older and more vulnerable people have been able to be vaccinated against Covid-19, we’ll once again be doing these work-days. Considering that most people have not yet been vaccinated, and that variants of the virus now exist, we will require all volunteers to wear face masks and to maintain social distancing.
Neighborhood volunteers, supervised by the Friends of Royal Lake (FORL), are needed to do this sort of trail maintenance because the Fairfax County Parks Authority (FCPA) only has enough staff to deal with major trail work, such as replacement of deteriorating bridges. However, the…