Resources Categories

Funding and Planning

• Federal Funding
• Guidelines and Handbooks
• Private Funding
• State & Local Funding
• Wildlife and Environment
• FAQs
• General

Design and Building

• Accessible Trails
• Best Practices
• Bridges and Boardwalks
• Signs & Interpretation
• Multi-use Trails
• Surfacing
• Trail Amenities / Structures
• Trail Construction
• Trail Design
• Tools & Tool Use
• FAQs
• General

Management and Maintenance

• Best Management Practices (BMPs)
• Crime
• E-bikes & Emerging Technologies
• Managing Water
• Trail Capacity
• Trail Inventory
• Tread Surface Erosion Control
• User Conflicts
• Volunteers
• Youth Corps
• FAQs
• General

Advocacy and Promotion

• Making the Case for Trails
• Community Case Studies
• Community Development
• Federal Legislation
• Partnership Development
• State and Local Legislation
• Travel and Tourism
• Value of Trails
• FAQs
• Action Alerts
• General

Benefits of Trails

• Active Living
• Case Studies
• Economic Benefits
• Health Benefits
• Social Benefits
• FAQs
• General

General Interest

• Books and Publications
• Featured trails
• Memorials
• Safety
• Special Interest
• Trail Honors & Awards
• Training and Education
• American Trails Updates
• General

Resources by User Type

• Shared-use Trail Resources
• Accessible Trail Resources
• Road Biking Resources
• Mountain Biking Resources
• Equestrian Resources
• Hiking
• Motorized
• Winter - motorized
• Winter - nonmotorized
• Water Trails
• Rail-Trail
• National Historic Trails
• National Recreation Trails
• National Scenic Trails
• National Water Trails System

Resources by Common Topic

• 2021
• accessibility and accessible trails
• Action Alerts
• active mobility and active transportation
• Advancing Trails Awards
• Advancing Trails Webinar Series
• advertising
• advocacy
• aging population
• ambassadors
• American Trails Magazine (ATM)
• American Trails membership
• AmeriCorps
• Apply to the NRT Program
• art on trails
• Ask A Trail Expert
• avalanche
• awards
• backcountry
• backpacking
• benefits of trails
• bicycle
• birding
• boardwalks
• bollards
• book review
• bridges
• businesses
• cairns
• canal
• case study
• CEUs
• Coalition for Recreational Trails (CRT)
• conflict
• congress
• conservation and environment
• Conservation Corps
• construction
• consultants
• contractors
• cost
• counting trail users
• crew
• crime and liability
• CRT Awards
• crusher fines
• desert trails
• design
• diversity, equality and inclusion
• dogs on trails
• drainage
• e-bikes (electric bicycles)
• economic
• editorial
• education
• Emerging Trail Leaders (ETL)
• employment
• event
• FAQ
• featured trails
• federal
• fence
• fire impact on trails
• fitness
• floodway
• free webinar
• freeway
• fuels reduction
• funding
• GIS Mapping
• grants and grant writing
• greenways and open space
• guidelines
• harbor
• health
• healthcare
• hiking
• historic
• horses and equestrian trails
• huts and backcountry shelter systems
• international trails
• International Trails Symposium (ITS)
• Interpretation
• JEDI
• land and open space
• landowner outreach
• landscape architect
• learning credits
• Leave No Trace
• legislation
• livable communities
• long-distance trails
• maintenance
• management and operation
• mapping
• marketing
• membership
• memorial
• mobility devices
• mountain biking
• mud and erosion
• National Historic Trails (NHT)
• National Recreation Trails (NRT)
• National Scenic Trails (NST)
• National Trails System (NTS)
• National Trails System Act
• National Trails Training Partnership (NTTP)
• natural surface
• nature trail
• navigation and wayfinding
• nonmotorized
• NRT Ambassador Program
• NRT Contacts
• NRT Map
• NRT photo contest
• Off-Highway Vehicles (OHV)
• parks
• partnerships
• pedestrian
• photo gallery
• planning
• policy
• presentations
• preservation
• press releases
• public lands
• rail
• rail trail
• rails with trails
• rails-to-trails
• recreation
• Recreational Trails Program (RTP)
• rehabilitation
• restoration
• risk management
• safety
• scholarships
• seasonal
• shared use
• signs
• skills
• snow and winter trails
• snowmobile
• social media and mobile technology
• State by State resources
• state contacts
• stewardship
• structures
• support
• surfaces
• surfacing
• sustainable trails
• technology
• thru-hiking
• tools for trail building
• trail ambassadors
• trail amenities
• trail design
• trail etiquette
• trail overcrowding and impact
• trail signs
• Trail Tracks e-newsletter (enews)
• trailheads
• trails as transportation
• trails move people
• TRAILSNext videos
• training
• travel & tourism
• Universal Trail Assessment Process (UTAP)
• urban trails
• user surveys
• utility corridor
• veterans
• volunteer opportunities
• volunteers
• walking
• water trails
• why trails
• wilderness
• wildlife and habitat
• youth and kids on trails
• youth corps