03/27/2026
2025-2026 Official BMSC Season Close-Out Summary
Stay with me now…long post, but very important 👍
As you know, trails officially closed a few weeks ago for the season. Right now, we are closing gates, putting away signs, and watching our last snow piles melt high on the mountain. Despite the slow start, we had a great winter! Between late January and early March, we ran 2 groomers almost daily, weather permitting, and our trails were in great shape. We likely had our system in the best shape ever for MA and NH School Vacation weeks. We are very happy with our season-long performance; we do the best we can with what Mother Nature gives us (and when it’s given).
Sitting here in late March 2026, BMSC is proud of this past season. Our club is strong; we work very closely with our landowners, we work to support our local small businesses, our BMSC board works extremely well together, we communicate often about our trail conditions during the season, we fastidiously maintain our equipment, we’re constantly working on our trails, and we look out for you, our club members. Boiled down, that means we plan, we perform, and we’re always ready go. That is a lot to be proud of at the end of any season.
Our trail system has been greatly improved this season with the additional section of trail we took on this year, and with the new by-pass we constructed this past summer/fall. This trail was an extension of Corridor 24, formerly to the north of us, that ends pretty much where that picknick table overlooks the north end of Newfound Lake. We actually have some really lovely riding trails in our system these days. We know who we are and what we are…we’re mostly a pass-through trail system. We aren’t going to win any awards for the trail system itself; we don’t have the long stretches of continuous trails like our neighboring clubs; Hardy or Central. But what we do is awarding winning. We are key to the Newfound Lakes snowmobiling scene. On our system, we have amazing services; Newfound Grocery, Bridgewater Inn, The Homestead, Outdoor Performance, and nearby access to Ashland Lumber and Village Local Kitchen. We work to support those businesses with good access/grooming. They depend on us and you riders, to help make the winter great.
Thank you to the gracious landowners that support this great family sport and grant us the ability to use their land to have amazing amounts of fun during the winter. Access to land is what gets it all started; without it, there is nowhere to ride.
Thank you to the new club members and renewal club members for the continued support of BMSC with your membership, generous donations, and kind words about grooming and trail reporting efforts. You may not think it’s very important, but by joining our club you are telling us you appreciate what we do. It means a lot to us. And we measure that note it by name. Same for your donations, we can’t thank you enough! We appreciate you and the support you provide to us, and in turn, it also supports the surrounding businesses on our trail system.
Thank you to our neighboring clubs to the north, west, and south; Central, Hardy Country, Alexandria, and Squam Trail Busters. We appreciate being able to communicate, work together, and support each other. It just makes the Newfound Lakes Region trails that much better.
Thank you to the BMSC board and other local folks do something for the club to make it work every year, to all the great folks at the Trail Bureau, to our folks that file our paperwork with Trail Bureau, apply for grants, that write checks and watch our bank accounts and ensure we stay on track financially, to the Trailmaster and two Asst. Trailmasters that don’t miss a beat, to our newest groomer-trainees, to those that helped get the trails open after the January ice storm, to those that make and deliver maps to local stores, to the retailers that sell BMSC memberships, to the author of our Sno-Traveler articles, to the groomer operators, to all the businesses on the trail system that support our club, to the groomer maintenance folks at Prinoth, to the people that support our club with time or resources without asking, to the folks that help survey land to make new trails, to the folks that work on the trails all summer and fall, to the Doyon Family for hosting our Touch a Groomer event right on Corridor 24 with lovely hot food and drink, and to those folks that do things for us that the rest of you will never even know about...we salute all of you. Please know that we appreciate all of you and your efforts to make a snowmobile season happen. It only happens with a team of people that do these things because this sport brings happiness and joy. Thank you!
I'd venture to say we'll do it again next year. We'll see you again soon. – Team BMSC 👊
