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For years snowmaking at Wirth has been hamstrung by a lack of infrastructure. For instance, the park pulls water directly from a well - meaning warmer water. And the Park has had only a few available snowguns. This year the Loppet Foundation and the...

Thanks to a generous grant from QBP, as part of The Trailhead project, the Loppet Foundation is adding new mountain bike/event trails to Wirth Park. Read more about the grant. These new trails align with the Master Plan for Theodore Wirth Park and are...

The Loppet Foundation is excited to announce the hiring of Isaac Kasper as its first Trails Superintendent. Isaac comes to the Foundation from the Minikahda Club, where he was the Assistant Superintendent for Golf, and did the grooming for the Club in...

One word that might best sum up fall 2016 for the Loppet Foundation’s Junior Loppet teams may be ‘growing’. This fall we had more female students participating in our middle school programs than ever before and we also added two new female coaches, Coach...

November 8, 2016 (Minneapolis, MN) - Executive Director John Munger is excited to share that the Loppet Foundation received an important grant from Mayo Clinic to provide scholarship funding for five student athletes from Minneapolis to attend a...