MITA Announces 2024 Membership Updates

As we begin a new year, MITA is thrilled to announce a series of enhancements that are designed to make MITA membership more convenient and easier to navigate. Happily, we are announcing these changes without any increase in price for MITA membership. We are constantly striving to keep membership affordable and accessible for all…

VOTE NOW For 2023 MITA Photo Contest Finalists!

We know that the Maine Island Trail is remarkably beautiful. This is not news. But here we are, just totally floored by the photos that made the cut to advance to the final voting round. You can go check them out and vote for as many as you…

Enter the 2023 MITA Photo Contest!

We’re so excited to launch the 2030 MITA Photo Contest. Why? Because the Maine Island Trail is strikingly beautiful, and we look forward to seeing it through the eyes of those within our membership you really know how to use a camera. Hamilton Marine is once again presenting…

Support MITA and Join Us at Toast to the Coast!

  We’re doing it again, and this time we’re going a little bit bigger… Toast to the Coast, MITA’s summer fundraiser, is returning to WoodenBoat School in Brooklin on July 27 from 5-7pm! Click  for tickets and more information. Island views, live music, games, and all-you-can-eat artisanal pizza…

MITA Announces The Logbook Challenge!

We at MITA love a good contest. Particularly one where the objective is to get out to as many sites on the Maine Island Trail as possible over the course of a full summer… So, we sat down to devise the most epic coastal adventure competition that we…

Splash! Has SOLD OUT!

Wow! After three years of not being able to hold Splash!, you guys came back with force. Tickets are Splash! are completely sold out, and we are so grateful to those of you who will be coming out to the party. Splash! is a huge fundraiser for MITA,…

Derelict Lobster Traps Feel the Squeeze of MITA

You may remember hearing something about our “Flat Traps Fund” at some point last year. The idea was simple: generate funding to build a device that could be transported to sites on the Maine Island Trail to crush derelict lobster traps that washed ashore, making them easier to…

Spring Cleanup Registration Opens May 7!

We can feel it in the air… quite literally. Spring is here, and MITA is gearing up to get back out on the Trail. We want you to come with us to help get it cleaned up for the season ahead! Registration for Spring Cleanups will open at mita.org/cleanups on…

MITA Goes Big With Multi-Venue WASTE WATER Opening

Sometimes in life, you bite off more than you can chew. Other times, you unhinge your jaw and it all falls into place. Strange metaphor? Yeah. But it feels accurate given what MITA, Mariah Reading, and some incredibly wonderful and generous partners were able to pull off in…

It’s Boat Donation Season (Always!)

As we round into spring, one of these two thoughts may be in your head: “I really want to get on the water more this coming summer… I think it’s time to buy a boat!”, or, “Time for Spring Cleaning! I might want to start with that old…