Building a Trail-Friendly Community: Three Things You Can Start Today

Webinar Outline

Join the creators of the new online course, Trail Towns 101: Strategies, Tools and Inspiration to Make Trails Work for Your Community, to learn about what it means to be a trail town (hint: you don’t have to be part of an established program) and how your community can benefit from building stronger connections with trails and trail users. This webinar introduces you to three simple, concrete strategies to engage your community, entice locals and visitors, and take the next steps toward making the most of outdoor recreation and trails.

Drawing from the rich array of strategies and lessons in the Trail Towns 101 course, the webinar will focus on tools for expanding the pool of local trail advocates, setting the stage for planning connections and measuring success, building your local trails culture, connecting with your key markets, and inviting locals and visitors to use your trails and spend time in your community. The webinar will also cover why it’s a good idea to work with other neighboring communities when you’re forging connections with trails and trail users.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what it means to be a trail town
• Be able to identify economic and community benefits that can come from becoming more “trail-friendly”
• Know how to measure current conditions of their trail community with a community assessment tool
• Be able to identify simple, fun steps to cultivate a trail culture
• Take the first steps in welcoming people to their trail community
• Understand how they may benefit by coordinating with neighboring trail communities

Trail Competencies

• Program Administration
• • Education and Public Outreach
• • Partnership and Collaboration

Relevant Trail Types

General. All trail types are relevant.