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The many kinds of trails require different management strategies. See trail sharing and multiple use, trail policies and ethics, impacts and mitigation, and maintenance plans. A separate area covers safety and liability.

 

• Operations, Maintenance, and Stewardship 101
• Rail-Trail Maintenance and Operation (PDF 1.6 Mb)
• Maintenance Checklist for Urban Trails
• Wheeler Geologic Area Trail Rehabilitation
• Piedmont Trail realignment from fall line to contour
• Maintaining trails for the 21st century
• Design, Signage and Maintenance Guidelines:
  Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail
• Natural Surface Trail Maintenance (PDF 188kb)
• New York/NewJersey Trail Conference: Trail Maintenance 101 (pdf 440 kb)
• Burke-Gilman Trail Vegetation Management Guidelines
• Guide to Trail Work, maintenance, tools; from Washington Trail Association
• Maintenance management systems for trails
• Construction and maintenance costs for trails, WI
• Maintenance costs for the Schuylkill Trail, PA
• Roadway and Bikeway Maintenance Practices, AZ
• Maintenance concerns close major Kentucky trail
• More articles on trail building and maintenance from International Mountain Bicycling Association

• Natural resource impacts of mountain biking
• Studies weigh mountain-biking, hiking impacts
• Comparing relative impacts of various trail user groups
• Bike, hike and Erosion control strategies for new trails
• Monitoring recreational impacts using panoramic and fixed photopoints (pdf of PowerPoint 2.9 mb)
• Off-Road Impacts of Mountain Bikes, New Zealand Department of Conservation
• Stay off the trails during mud season
• Wet trails take beating from mountain bikers
• Closing and reclaiming damaged trails
• New perspectives in national forest recreation
• Don't be a trailblazer!
• Basic training for life (rules for recreationists)
• Recreationists must respect private property!
• Closure of Trails: A Restoration Strategy or Lack of Management?
• Changes on Trails in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, MT (pdf 172K)
• ATC Backcountry Sanitation Manual covers human waste management in the backcountry (pdf 1.6mb)

• Mountain bike trails in National Parks: the Cactus Forest Trail debate at Saguaro NP
• Protection From liability: on recreational trails
• Debate on trail use policy regarding mountain bikes (New England)
• Mountain bicycling in Wisconsin surveyed and analyzed
• Managing for multiple-use trails
• Multi-Use Trail Management Policy: How Agencies address Conflict and Impacts
• Trail use policies: Mid-Peninsula Open Space, CA
• Indiana mountain bike trail to be in place for a year
• Jefferson County, Colorado, sticks with multiple-use
• Colorado Springs sets cooperative mountain bike policy

 

• We Built It and They Came: managing busy trails
• Guidance for Managing Informal Trails by Jeff Marion
• Why do people leave the trail?
• Management Guidelines for OHV Recreation
• Travel Management Signs for Public Lands in Colorado
• Mountain Walking Track Management; 260 pages of Australian and UK experience (pdf 6.0 mb)
• Power line trails: Safe management and development
• Preventing illegal motorized use on non-motorized trails
• Comprehensive Plan for Protection, Management, Development and Use of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, 1987 (pdf 161 kb)
• Assessment of Trails, Watercourses, Soils, and Redwood Forest Health, Joaquin Miller Park, CA
• Mud, manure, and money: fixing the trails in Indiana
• Trail condition preferences of horseback riders
• Accomodating horse trails in the national forests
• Mountain bikes and metropolitan park districts: issues and trends in trail management
• Volunteer rangers to hit Cherry Creek Trail and Mountain bikers patrol national forest trails
• Clueless: it's easy to ignore environmental ethics
• Dialogue continues on responsible recreation
• Backcountry trail standards: the user perspective
• Off-road impacts of mountain bikes, New Zealand

• Conflicts on Multiple-use Trails: synthesis of the literature and state of the practice, Roger Moore
• Sharing Our Trails: A Guide to Trail Safety and Enjoyment
• Equestrian and Other Nonmotorized Use on Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities: FHWA guidance
• When snowmobilers meet others on the trail
• Snowmobilers and skiers reach agreement in ID
• Skiers and snowmobilers: let's work together
• Alternative day zoning: handling heavy trail use
• Recreation Code of Ethics urged by Blue Ribbon
• The Continental Divide Trail belongs to all citizens
• Coalition for Recreational Trails presents annual awards
• Separate trails divide; shared trails build community
• Land-use conflict between hikers and mountain bikers
• Suggestions on improving safety for horseback riders and other trail users
• The Equestrian and other trail users: the issues
• Share traile with horses: understand their instincts
• Equestrian use for Maybrook Rail Trail, NY
• Cyclists and equestrian trail users
• Hikers and hunters on shared-use single-track trails
• North Country Trail Association affirms hiking-only vision for National Scenic Trail
• Design out conflict: backcountry trail management
• Multi-use trail and equestrian issues (pdf 292k)
• "Share the Trail" page from Arizona State Parks with Shared-Use Trail examples
• Rules for shared use pathways, CO

• State of Maryland and bicyclists work together to improve trails and training
• Restoring trails in the Mount Sutro Forest, UCSF
• Forest trails in Ohio recover from winter floods
• Better trails for Colorado's "fourteener" peaks

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