TRAiLS Trips

Fee Waivers

If the cost of a trip is a financial barrier or concern to you please email [email protected] to request a fee waiver. Please do not register on the sign-up portal if you are interested in using a fee waiver. We want to provide as much assistance financially to you that we can, but we ask that when you email us you include how much you would be able to provide financially. On most trips we can offer waivers of 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%.

Trip Postings

All TRAiLS trips are posted one month in advance on DSE, which is linked above. Registration remains open until the Wednesday before the trip goes out. If you need to cancel, we will fully refund you up until 11:59 PM on that Wednesday, after which we begin our final planning stages for trip departure. If you have questions on trip sign-ups, please email either the lead guide, which can be found on the bottom of the sign-up link, or [email protected] for general questions.

Land Acknowledgement

GW TRAiLS trips take place on Piscataway and Nacotchtank (Anacostan) land. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, as well as the many harms that continue today. We honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples who have resided in this region and served as stewards of the local land and waterways and those who are still connected to the land on which we gather. We acknowledge that much of what we know of the United States has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans, their descendants, and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and other harms that continue today. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting impact that can still be felt and witnessed today. Learn more about land acknowledgment.