Learn how a New York study of road and trail intersections generated policy and design recommendations and a public education campaign for trail users and motorists.
Speakers: Fran Gotcsik, Director of Programs and Policy for Parks & Trails New York; William J. Collins, RLA, ASLA, Vice President of Simone Collins Landscape Architecture
Every trail project faces daunting physical obstacles to accessible, safe, and desperately-needed pedestrian and bicycle mobility: road intersections; a missing bridge; active railroad; or a piece of the federal highway system. Learn how a New York study of road and trail intersections generated policy and design recommendations and a public education campaign for trail users and motorists. And also how several small Pennsylvania communities have overcome physical, bureaucratic, and legal issues and "pushed the envelope" in policy, aesthetics, funding, engineering and structural materials to address major infrastructure obstacles and solve them with unique determination, creativity and style.
Creating 21st Century Trail Networks
Building a regional trail network can't be built by just planners and trail advocates. How to engage people!
Metrics, Data, and Counting, Oh My!
Tools for helping to identify opportunity, map a course of action, and quantify the benefits of walking, biking and trail development.
Backcountry Horsemen "Leave No Trace" Trainer Programs
BCHA teaches Leave No Trace principles to stock users.
Learn about national trails efforts in China.
The Shoreline Greenway Trail: a study in patience, flexibility, and creativity
The 25-mile trail along a stretch of Connecticut’s southern coast faces challenges from acquiring easements, to coordinating between four towns, to designing through varying types of terrain.
Bartram National Recreation Trail, J. Strom Thurmond Lake, Georgia
Located at J. Strom Thurmond Dam & Lake Project on the Gaorgia-South Carolina border, the 27-mile long Bartram Trail is designed for mountain biking with easier sections as well as fast single track challenges.
