Steering Committee Guidance
Create a steering committee and facilitate meetings.
Project PackSingle Trail
Single Trail
You’re ready to take a different route. One new trail or trail connection is needed to enhance your local trail system.
This Project Pack walks you through the process of building a single trail, from engaging the community and estimating costs, to minimizing the environmental impacts and ensuring accessibility.
Tools for Single Trails
Engaging the Community
Thoughtful communication between the steering committee and the community can ensure a unified vision for trail development that meets the desires of multiple user groups.
Community and Stakeholder Engagement Guidance
Establish stakeholders, conduct public meetings, and develop the community vision for local outdoor recreation.
Survey Question Bank
Learn how to survey the community as a form of public outreach.
Time to Plan
Once you know what you are working with, you can begin to build out plans for improving or maintaining your local trail. Through minimizing the environmental impacts, illuminating shared goals through iterative community feedback, guiding priorities through realistic cost estimations, and other planning initiatives, this step shapes the vision for your community’s future trails.
Natural Resources Guide
Ensure the development and maintenance of outdoor recreation is environmentally responsible.
Model Project Proposal and Review
Complete the project application process and ensure that recreation opportunities are created in an environmentally responsible manner.
Interpretation, Education, and Programming Guidance
Explore opportunities for interpretation, education, and programming around natural and cultural assets.
Recreation Improvement Database
Identify the potential costs associated with outdoor recreation improvements.
Strategy and Planning Templates
Work with the steering committee to implement the visioning framework, set priorities, and choose an appropriate plan scale.
Tying it All Together
With plans in place and the community on board, it is time to implement improvements and maintenance for your local trail improvement. This process involves planning efforts such as marketing your trail, designing and building a thoughtful trail, ensuring accessible transportation to the trailhead, establishing funding opportunities, and hiring consultants.
Design and Construction of Trails, Assets, and Transportation Amenities
Find best practices for designing and building trails, recreational assets, and parking and transportation related amenities.
Funding Strategies and Grant Database
Access funding for local outdoor recreation projects.
Destination Marketing and Management
Promote outdoor recreation areas sustainably.
Partnerships and Regional Collaboration
Strengthen capacity and vision through local and regional partnerships.
Ongoing Management and Stewardship
Establish a thoughtful plan for long-term maintenance of outdoor recreation areas.
Consultant Collaboration and Requests for Proposals
Create and promote an RFP for outdoor recreation projects.