3/17/2025

IRONWOOD - A celebration was held on Saturday for the co-owners of ABR Ski Trails. Angela Santini and Eric Anderson are in the process of transitioning the trails into the Anderson Bluffs and River Trails Foundation.

Santini and Anderson have run the trails for the last 30 years, with Anderson starting the trails with his dad back in 1995 after leaving his engineering career. The work it took to create the 100-kilometer trail system was an undertaking, working with old equipment and technology to create and keep perfectly groomed trails through beautiful scenery. Scrapbooks filled with clippings about ABR were available in the ski shack for folks to see the progress of the trails through the years. Anderson and Santini still plan on volunteering in the ski shack and Anderson says he’ll continue as chief groomer, but the ownership of the land and day to day operations will be the responsibility of the ABR Trails Foundation, which Anderson and Santini started in 2019. Transfer of the land and ownership is due to be completed in April. More information can be found at abrtrails.com.