Resources
for building trails and greenways:
design guidelines, construction techniques,
materials, trail paving and surfacing,
and trailhead signs and facilities.
Guide to Sustainable Mountain
Trails: Trail
Assessment, Planning, and Design Sketchbook Two
new trail design books cover "how
to think" and "how to do
it" Building
Sustainable Trails : designing
sustainable contour trailsPark
Guidelines for Off-Highway Vehicles
covers OHV recreation area design
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
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 ExtensionWetland
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 More on publications for
trail design from the American
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