The Trail Challenge will run from May 1 to October 31, but registration will close on October 24 to give participants time to complete Challenge Trails before the program ends on October 31. Any Challenge Trails logged and selfies uploaded after October 31 will not be counted towards the challenge or the prize incentives.

The cost to participate is $25 per person and you will receive a custom Trail Challenge blanket and a passport book with information on all 13 Metroparks. You receive your blanket and passport by visiting a Metroparks Office, during regular business hours, and showing your registration receipt on your phone or in hard copy.

Then you can earn additional incentives by completing challenge trails. When you complete 3 challenge trails you will receive a custom Metroparks tote bag and if you complete challenge trails in all 13 parks you will receive a 2025 Metroparks Annual Vehicle Pass so you can keep exploring the trails for another year.

If you earn any additional Challenge Trail prizes, these will be mailed to you beginning November 1. They will be mailed to the address you registered with originally.

First, you need to set your leaderboard name. Check your email for your registration confirmation and instructions on how to set this before hitting the trails.

You receive your blanket and passport by visiting a Metroparks Office, during regular business hours, and showing your registration receipt on your phone or in hard copy. Then go out and hit that park’s challenge trail and you are on your way to great prizes. You can find the park office nearest to you by visiting our website. All our park office hours are listed in the information for each of our parks.

After you register to participate, you will receive an email receipt, there is an attachment to the receipt that proves the instructions on how to set your leaderboard name.

Each time you visit a Challenge Trail sign kiosk, you will be asked to scan a QR code at that kiosk and submit a leaderboard form while you’re standing at the kiosk. You will use the same display name each time you log Challenge Trails, and the leaderboard will automatically update. You MUST complete this Challenge Trail submission form while at the Challenge Trail kiosk.

Registered participants can earn additional incentives by visiting Challenge Trails and uploading selfies with the Trail Challenge kiosk in it. Challenge Trail selfies are uploaded through the online leaderboard submission form. It is accessed by scanning a QR code at each Challenge Trail sign kiosk.  When the leaderboard updates the participant will have a badge on the leaderboard for each challenge trails selfie that is uploaded.

For three (3) Challenge Trails badges earned you will receive a custom Metroparks tote bag and if you earn all 13 badges you will receive a 2025 Metroparks Annual Vehicle Pass so you can keep exploring the trails for another year.

There are two Challenge Trail options at Stony Creek Metropark. So, there are 14 options of trails, but participants must complete a challenge trail in every park (13 parks) to earn the 2025 Annual Pass.

Challenge Trail incentives are mailed out in November for those that earned them.

You can look at all park maps by clicking here. Or you can stop by the park office for a hard copy map. You can use ANY Metroparks trail to log miles.

You can find challenge trails identified in your trail challenge passport book and on the event webpage. Staff within the park office can also help direct you.

For each registered participant from your household, you will complete the Display Name form using the same phone number and then creating a new display name for that participant.

When you are at the kiosk to submit your selfie, scan the QR code and enter the phone, a list of display names will populate that are associated with the phone number. Choose the correct username and complete the form.  Each participant will need upload their own selfie through the form to be added to the Leaderboard.

We use your phone number to make sure your leaderboard name is unique and that we are adding Challenge Trail badges to the correct registered participant on the leaderboard. This ensures you earn the correct incentives and prizes.

You can use one if you wish, but you don’t need one, and you can’t link it directly to our leaderboard at this time. However, you will be required to use a smart phone to take a selfie with the Challenge Trail signs, scan a QR code and submit those selfies while out on the trail in order to earn badges and incentives.

You can visit  the following link and follow the steps to turn on location services, https://www.lifewire.com/turn-on-mobile-location-services-4156232.

Make sure location services is on than rescan the QR code on the sign or refresh the page.

You are certainly not required to. However, submitting a selfie to verify you were at a challenge trail is the ONLY way to earn the incentives and prizes for completing 3 and 13 challenges. If you choose not to take this step, you will not be eligible to receive those prizes.

Ages 6 and up are welcome to register and participate. There are trails for everyone to enjoy.

You can reach out to Hilary Simmet at hilary.simmet@metroparks.com or 810.494.6037.