filed under: state & local funding
SCORPs are required for a state to receive LWCF funds.
The Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) serves as a guide for all public outdoor recreation in urban and rural neighborhoods, cities, and regions for a given state. Each state must prepare a SCORP every five years to be eligible for funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) serves as a guide for all public outdoor recreation in urban and rural neighborhoods, cities, and regions for a given state. Each state must prepare a SCORP every five years to be eligible for funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
The SCORP attempts to bring together the wants and needs of the recreation users and providers into a single, comprehensive document. Arizona’s 2018 SCORP summarizes the objectives of the SCORP as follows:
This plan is the first time a Colorado SCORP considers both
conservation and recreation together as values that are closely intertwined. In addition, the SCORP looks at current and
changing demographics and recreation trends to help the
outdoor recreation sector be culturally relevant and respond to
future shifts.
The 2014-2019 SCORP for New York titled, New York State Outdoors: Healthy Living through Nature focuses on public participation as well as goals and recommendations and the implementation / action plan to facilitate improvements to New York’s outdoor recreation system.
The 2019-2023 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan was prepared by the Planning and Grants Section within Wyoming’s Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources, Division of State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails.
This 2018 update of Arizona’s Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) is intended to guide outdoor recreation managers and decision-makers on policy and funding issues.
Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan Library
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals provides SCORPs for all 50 states.
Published January 2019
Recreational Trails Program Highlight: Brighton Park, Ohio
Brighton Park, formerly the Henninger Landfill, was a construction and demolition debris landfill in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland that ceased operation in the 1980s.
Recreational Trails Program Highlight: Prison Hill 5th Street Trailhead Project, Nevada
Visible throughout Carson City, the approximately 2,500 acre Prison Hill Recreation Area has been set aside and dedicated as open space for the community of Carson City.
A Call for Expanding Trails Research
Trails research can help support trail management decision-making and funding by providing objective, quantitative information describing trail users, their numbers and demographics, preferences, and economic expenditures.
Recreational Trails Program Highlight: Tonto Recreation Alliance's (TRĀL) Adopt-a-trail Program
TRĀL’s mission is to recruit, train, and coordinate a volunteer workforce to help the Tonto National Forest manage OHV recreation in the forest.
