2025 Youth Trek

Morehead City and Greenville Stakes

July 10th-July 12th, 2025 at Marriott Ranch in Hume, VA

Youth turning 14 years old this year through graduating high school seniors are invited to participate in this unique and memorable experience as they reenact a handcart trek. Youth will have powerful opportunities to strengthen testimonies, build unity, feel gratitude for the sacrifices of the pioneers, and appreciate their blessings more fully while engaging with youth from the Greenville and Morehead City Stakes.

All youth and adults attending trek (Ma's & Pa's and support staff) need to register. Online registration is closed. Please reach out to Sis. McCarlie or Sis. Merville for late registration.

More Trek Details

Preparing For Trek

All participants need to prepare for trek between now and July. Each attendee needs to acquire appropriate clothing and footwear, select a pioneer name, learn a few period dances, and be physically ready to hike the trail. See complete details below under "Other Resources".

Trek Packing List

Please use the packing list to prepare for trek. The packing list clearly outlines what is needed (and what items must be excluded). Our journey begins at the Greenville ward building, so youth should arrive in their pioneer clothing, ready to go.

Standards of Conduct

Each participant commits to be part of the activity--including wearing appropriate clothing. Attendees must act in accordance with Church standards and help other participants do the same. Please refer to 2025 Standards and Expectations for details.

Other Resources

Pioneer Clothing

Click below for a summarized list of clothing the youth need to bring and why we wear pioneer clothing at Trek.

PLEASE NOTE: Bonnets are available to purchase for $9 at Fort Macon.

Patterns PDF

More thoughts on clothing.

(STRAW HATS NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

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Pioneer Names

All youth need to find a pioneer name they can take and represent on Trek. Click below for helpful information from the historical committee.

Youth, find a person, learn as much as you can about them and "bring" them with you to trek as you walk in their footsteps. This can be your own ancestor or a pioneer selected from the church list of pioneers.

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Fitness & Safety

We want each youth to be ready and able to fully participate with us as we walk nearly 10 miles on our trek.

Please click below for a summary from our Fitness & Safety Committee.

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Get Ready to Dance!

One of our activities will be a hoedown with live folk music. Youth can learn the following few dances, so they are ready to join in.

Check out the links to learn the "Circle Waltz" and "Virginia Reel." Click the button below for a detailed description of the "Pilgrims and Saints" dance.

The Circle Waltz Part 1
The Circle Waltz Part 2
The Virginia Reel

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In case you missed it...

Click below for the final packing list.

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“Brothers and sisters, join with us and begin now to prepare for a spiritual journey . . . by walking in the footsteps of our beloved pioneers in every land. We must be sure that the legacy of faith received from them is never lost. Let their heroic lives touch our hearts, and especially the hearts of our youth, so the fire of true testimony and unwavering love for the Lord and His Church will blaze brightly within each one of us as it did in our faithful pioneers.”

—Elder M. Russell Ballard “Faith in Every Footstep” Ensign, Nov 1996, 25