Sustainable Trail Bridge Design
Designing trail bridges based on trail-specific Trail Management Objectives (TMOs) is essential for providing the desired trail experience, for ensuring user safety, and for maximizing bridge longevity.
Transfer field-delineated trail design (location, alignment, structures), along with construction process, materials, notes, special conditions into a document that will guide the trail development process.
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Designing trail bridges based on trail-specific Trail Management Objectives (TMOs) is essential for providing the desired trail experience, for ensuring user safety, and for maximizing bridge longevity.
The Standard Trail Plans and Specifications reflect current Forest Service trail management efforts and the agency’s Trails Data Dictionary for constructed features and tasks.
This 300-page spiral-bound publication, several years in the making, provides a first-ever comprehensive "how-to" guidebook for developing all types of recreational trails.
The North Country National Scenic Trail (NST) extends for thousands of miles across seven states. Its layout, design, construction, and maintenance require the participation of a myriad of individuals and groups.
This guidebook provides practical guidelines for developing recreation environments that are sensitive to the needs of riders and their stock.
Trail Skills Training Library
This webinar will feature three members of the original design team who will take attendees through the vision, design, and development process to develop the Grand Canyon Greenway.
his webinar covers the latest issues and policies in planning and designing urban mobility networks, and how to integrate transportation with greenways and trails to create seamless metro-wide systems.
This webinar will review several common approaches and technologies for trail planning and design projects and provide attendees with real world examples.
Mike Linnane of Evolve Technologies and award-winning Trail Manager Eoin Hogan will present on the development path of the world’s first integrated digital trail management system. The webinar will outline the evolution from a paper-based trail…
This webinar will discuss the various types of materials used for paved, multi-use trails in the District of Columbia. We will discuss different projects where we used flexi-pave, asphalt, or porous asphalt and our experience with each material. How…
The webinar emphasizes learning about the trail and to determine what needs to be communicated, and where information is best posted.
Custom Trainings
Golden, CO
I have been a Trails Specialist with Jefferson County Open Space for 10yrs and was a Seasonal…
Mccall, ID
I am an early-career trails professional with the Forest Service. I have seven Agency field seasons…
Hire Workers
Rapid City, SD
I work for the US Forest Service out of the Black Hills of South Dakota. I started my career…
Whiting, ME
Unity College, Unity ME, freshwater ecology undergrad. 15 years experience fish habitat restoration…
Hood River, OR
In my sixth year working wilderness, motorized, and non-motorized trails for the Forest Service;…
Upper Marlboro , MD
30 plus years in park management, forestry, horticulture, Wild life and conservation I manage over…
Anniston , AL
We are mountain bikers that have built over two hundred miles of recreational trails in five…
Golden, CO
Thirty-eight years of experience in the US Forest Service in landscape architecture, recreation…
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