The Superior Hiking Trail Association
The Superior Hiking Trail Association (SHTA) builds, promotes and maintains the trail. It is a Minnesota based non-profit corporation with more than 3200 members. The association produces a quarterly newsletter called The Ridgeline for its members which contains noteworthy news of the trail, trail volunteer bios, and association financial information. The most visible activities of the SHTA are the popular organized hikes featuring leaders with interpretive skills, such as naturalists, geologists, photographers, and historians and ranging from day hikes to backpacking trips of several days' duration.
The trail was mostly built by crews of people that were hired from local towns or by the Minnesota Conservation Corps. Most of the trail is maintained by groups of volunteers, scout troups or other outdoor organizations. Some groups have chosen to take a section of the trail to do upkeep on, others participate in scheduled maintenance hikes. There is currently construction on a 5.1-mile (8.2-Km) section between Fox Farm Road/East Trailhead and Fox Farm Road/West Trailhead between Duluth and Two Harbors that is being done with volunteer labor.
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