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• Optimizing trail grade: the key to creating sought-after trails by Randy Martin
• Guide to Sustainable Mountain Trails: Trail Assessment, Planning, and Design Sketchbook
• Trail Design Guidelines: Regional Trails, Natural Areas and Developed Parks, OR (pdf 7.4 mb)
  
• Two new trail design books cover "how to think" and "how to do it"
• Building Sustainable Trails: designing sustainable contour trails
• Park Guidelines for Off-Highway Vehicles covers OHV recreation area design
• Emerging Trends in Pocket Bike Parks (pdf of PowerPoint 2.7 mb)
• The How and Why of Trail Construction on the Appalachian Trail
• Handbook for Trail Design, Construction, and Maintenance, North Country National Scenic Trail
• Hiking Trail Design: Trailbuilders tell us how they lay the groundwork
• Erosion Control Strategies for New Trails by Martha S. Mitchell, Erosion Control
• Equestrian Design Guidebook for Trails, Trailheads, and Campgrounds
• Designing Shared-Use Trails to Include Equestrians, by Anne M. O'Dell (pdf 5.3mb)
• Shared-Use Path Design (pdf 1 mb); from FHWA
• Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access
• Conservation Ethics Guiding The Goethe Trail
• Trail Design and Construction Standards from Northern Bonneville Shoreline Trail (pdf 577 kb)
• Trail Guide: Building multiuse trails and bridges by Kyle Ryan
• Westchester RiverWalk Design Guidelines (pdf 8.9mb)
• Guidelines for Trail Development Within Montgomery County, PA, 2005 (pdf 1.2 MB)
• Recreational Trail Design and Construction from University of Minnesota Extension
• Wetland trail development -- From THE TRAIL FORUM
• Wetland Trail Design and Construction: Steinholz and Vachowski, 2001
• Four Simple Tasks to Do Prior to Trail Design by Jef Farland
• How accessible recreation facilities benefit everyone
• Back Country Trail Design and Management
• How to Build Challenging Mountain Bike Trails: articles from International Mountain Bicycling Association
• 10 Most Common Trailbuilding Mistakes
• Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook; USFS

• Cattle Guards for Off-Highway Vehicle Trails: Selection and Installation Considerations
• Accessible Picnic Tables: Requirements and Recommendations
• Vault Evaporator Toilet System: An Innovative Alternative for Waste Disposal
• Policy concerning the placement of signs along the Longleaf Trace rail trail
• Art Enhances Western Greenways
• Campground Accessibility: Issues and Recommendations
• Bonneville Shoreline Trail Signage Documentation is a complete sign standards manual
  

• Used steel well casings make better culverts
• Know what's underground for safe trail construction and maintenance
• Best Management Practices for Erosion Control During Trail Maintenance and Construction
• Revegetation along trail corridors -- From THE TRAIL FORUM
• The Slate Creek gabions: structures for a streamside trail
• Crib Walls for Mountain Bike Trails
• Armoring Trails, from Earth Riders Trails Assoc.
• Building Contour Trails with Full Bench Cut and Outslope
• Rolling Crown Switchbacks
• Rolling Grade Dips
• Trailbuilding Basics: International Mountain Bicycling Association's guide on trail design, construction and maintenance: download the pdf file

• The art of building crushed stone trails by Tony Boone
• Building crusher fines trails -- From THE TRAIL FORUM
• Mowed grass and crusher fines surfaces on Cross Country Running Trail, Bettendorf, Iowa
• National Trails Surface Study seeks best materials
• Accessible Trail Surfaces: What Do I Need to Know? from National Center on Accessibility
• Surfaces for accessible trails: tips and definitions
• Soil Stabilizers On Universally Accessible Trails (pdf 164K)
• Evaluation of "Road OYL" for trail Stabilization-- From THE TRAIL FORUM
• Geosynthetics for Trails in Wet Areas: 2008 Edition
• Permeable Paver Research Summary from Lake County Forest Preserves (pdf 335K)
• Armoring: Using Rock to Harden Trails
• Geosynthetics for Trails in Wet Areas (pdf 256K)
• What's Under Foot? Multi-use Trail Surfacing Options, by George Hudson, Alta Planning + Design (pdf 1.0mb)
• Pavement Discussion from Parks and Recreation, Vancouver, BC (pdf 144kb)
• Use of Recycled Pavements study, San Jose
• Recycled Asphalt Paving for Staged Construction and Recreation Trails
• Building Better Asphalt Trails
• A Guideline for the Design and Construction of Asphalt Pavements for Colorado Trails and Paths
• Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements for Trails and Paths provides guidelines for design and construction of asphalt surfaces: contact publications@hotmix.org, (888) 468-6499, or order online at www.hotmix.org.

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