About DATA
The Douglas Area Trails Association is a non-profit corporation sponsored by Douglas County to build and maintain recreational trails. We currently maintain 400 miles of snowmobile trails which includes the Central Lakes multi-season, multi-use blacktopped trail that diagonals across Douglas County from the Northwest to the Southeast. Our 11 person board of directors meets monthly on the second Monday of each month at the Alexandria Holiday Inn to direct operations. Meetings are open to all DATA members so drop by if you are interested or would like to help.
 Calendar
July: Annual Landowner Appreciation Dinner
August: Annual meeting- second Monday
September: Trail work resumes
October: Fundraising Banquet – October 27 – Holiday Inn
November: Signing and opening swamps
December: Trails open
January: Weekly trail rides
February: Grooming
March: Hopefully a Blizzard
April: Trails close for season
May: Finish trail work for the season
June: End of fiscal year
Membership
Family membership is $40 a year with $20 going to MNUSA, the state snowmobile trail association. Your membership contribution helps provide our trail insurance coverage, new trail developments, special trail projects, double grooming during the height of the winter season, and helps pay for our annual landowner appreciation dinner. The $40 combined membership is a great value so please support us by joining DATA, and send your contribution to DATA, PO Box 112, Alexandria, MN 56308.
Download Membership Form 
Trail Sponsorship
To thank the many snowmobilers and businesses who support our efforts, we began the Sponsor-a-Trail program back in 1990. Like the Adopt-a-Highway program, special signage recognizing contributions are erected on the DATA trails each season. Contributions can be in the form of cash, merchandise or material, equipment or special services. Each sponsored mile represents a $100 contribution and the two brown and white signs are located on each side of a trail of the contributors choice (pending availability).
To become a Trail Sponsor or request more information please drop us a note identifying the Sponsor name (limited to two lines of 16 characters or less) and your 1st and 2nd choice of trail locations.
Download Trail Sponsorship Form
Requests can be sent to:
DATA
PO Box 112
Alexandria, MN 56308
Thanks again for your support.
DATA Charities
The
Douglas Area Trails Association also supports a wide variety of local youth and senior activities. Listed below are the acceptances of $15,137.00 in DATA contributions for July 2006-June 2007.
 Local Benefits- Learning and Caring Tree
- Listening Ear Crises
- Lincoln School Trip
- Douglas County Child Abuse
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Jingle Bells
- District 206
- Alexandria Youth Shooting Program
- Douglas County 4-H
- Alexandria Youth Baseball
- Alexandria Senior Center
- Osakis Public School
- Alexandria Area Youth Softball
- Junior Viking Sportsman
- Alexandria Shrine Circus
- Minnesota High School Rodeo
- Douglas County YMCA
- St. Mary's School
- Douglas County MDHA
- Douglas County Drug Education
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