American Trails

Horses and Trails

Recorded Training

Webinar

This webinar is about equestrians and the elements of success in planning, designing, and building trails and related recreational facilities that function successfully for horseback riders and their animals.

Whether you are an equestrian or not, we know horses are out on thousands of trails across America. In fact, 70% of the 9 million horses in our nation are used for recreational riding, and many millions more horseback riders are riding on recreational trails around the world.

How do equestrians, land managers, landowners, planners, landscape architects, civil engineers, and trail builders succeed in planning, building, using, and maintaining trails for the recreational riders and their pack stock?

Integrating equestrians into trails and transportation systems in urban, front country, rural, backcountry, or wilderness areas can seem like a daunting assignment to people unfamiliar with horses. This Webinar is designed to provide many of the answers to the questions about how to successfully include horses and riders into the trails environment.

Some specific topics that will be covered during this Webinar are:

Design guidelines for incorporating successful trail and trailhead amenities for equestrians with disabilities
Guidelines for equestrian trails, including trail lengths, clearances, tread widths, grades, slopes, and surfaces
Meeting equestrian trail users’ safety, including safety features for at-grade and below-grade road crossings
Resource protection techniques, including managing horse manure and identifying flora and fauna dangerous to equines

RESOURCE BOOK

Jan is one of the primary authors of the book, Equestrian Design Guidebook for Trails, Trailheads, and Campgrounds. She encourages you to download or obtain a FREE copy of the Guidebook in advance of the webinar.

Digital copy:

This book is available online in full color at the Federal Highway Administration's publications page

There are no copyrights! You can cut and paste any photographs, drawings, tables, or text from the online version of this book to use when creating specifications, RFQs, RFPs, or doing bid proposals, etc.

Print copy:

FREE printed black and white copy of this 312-page book is available from FHWA (FREE shipping in the US):

The book is publication # 0723-2816-MTDC. (Listed alphabetically under the book title - Equestrian Design Guidebook for Trails, Trailheads, and Campgrounds. Limit is one copy per address per each online order. Multiple copies available upon request.)