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2012 CRT Achievement Awards

Award-winning trail and greenway projects funded through the Recreational Trails Program

 

The Coalition for Recreational Trails (CRT) has announced the winners of its "Annual Achievement Awards" in recognition of outstanding use of Recreational Trails Program (RTP) funds. The awards ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. on June 5, 2012 at U.S. House of Representatives offices.

Eight trail projects and two State programs have been chosen by the Coalition for Recreational Trails as recipients of its thirteenth Annual Achievement Awards as part of the annual celebration for the American Recreation Coalition’s Great Outdoors Week.

The trail programs and project sponsors honored for 2012 are listed below by category of award:

Maintenance and Rehabilitation

• Lombard Trail (Idaho) - Bureau of Land Management/Challis Field Office; Great Basin Institute; Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation

Construction and Design - Local

• Chattahoochee Nature Trails (Florida) - City of Chattahoochee

Construction and Design - Long Distance

• Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway (Nevada) - Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway

Education and Communication

• Intertwine Alliance Bi-State Regional Trails Website (Oregon-Washington) - The Intertwine Alliance

Multiple-Use Management and Corridor Sharing

• Kwolh Butte Shelter (Oregon) - Deschutes National Forest

Environment and Wildlife Compatibility

• Swords Park Trail (Montana) - City of Billings

Accessibility Enhancement

• The Children’s Center’s Life Trails and Therapeutic Park (Oklahoma) - The Children’s Center

Use of Youth Conservation/Service Corps

• Mount Yale Trail Realignment (Colorado) - Pike and San Isabel National Forests/Salida Ranger District; Colorado Fourteeners Initiative; Rocky Mountain Youth Corps; Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado; Colorado College; Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

 

State Awards

The award winners for Outstanding State Trail Program and Outstanding Recreational Trails Advisory Committee were chosen by the Awards Committee of the National Association of State Park Directors. In both of these award categories, self-nominations for the awards were solicited from the states and reviewed by CRT members for inclusion in the award competition. States with approved self-nominations were then asked to submit a full nomination package, which was shared with the NASPD Awards Committee. The winners are:

Outstanding State Trail Program

• Tennessee Greenways and Trails Program

Outstanding State Recreational Trails Advisory Committee

• Illinois Greenways & Trails Council

 

The Recreational Trails Program

The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) is an assistance program of the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). See the FHWA website for more information. Federal transportation funds benefit recreation by making funds available to the States to develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both nonmotorized and motorized recreational trail uses. The RTP funds come from the Federal Highway Trust Fund, and represent a portion of the motor fuel excise tax collected from nonhighway recreational fuel use: fuel used for off-highway recreation by snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, and off-highway light trucks.

The Recreational Trails Program was first created in 1991 as part of the ground-breaking legislation known as ISTEA, and was expanded and reauthorized through the 2005 "Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users'' (SAFETEA-LU). After a slow start under ISTEA, when $37.5 million was made available for the program, funding has grown substantially and, by September 30, 2009, nearly $900 million had been made available to states for recreational trails. Half of all funding is apportioned to the states equally. The remaining 50% is apportioned among eligible states based upon nonhighway recreational fuel use in each of those states during the preceding year.

A series of extensions has continued the surface transportation funding authority. The many groups that are a part of the Coalition for Recreational Trails are working for reauthorization and continued funding of the RTP. Read more about the Recreational Trails Program...

Coalition for Recreational Trails:

The Coalition for Recreational Trails, a national organization representing the nation's major trail interests, has been working since 1992 to build awareness and understanding of the RTP, to support its implementation and to help insure that it receives adequate funding. The awards are part of the Coalition's ongoing effort to promote and celebrate this highly successful program, which has greatly enhanced the quantity and quality of trail experiences available to the public. For more information about CRT and its members, go to: www.funoutdoors.com/coalitions/crt.

 

Annual achievement awards presented by the Coalition for Recreational Trails: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999