Trail Fundamentals provide an integrated means to consistently record and communicate the intended design and management guidelines for trail design, construction, maintenance and use.

Trail design and layout begins with the concept that a trail is needed to provide access to an area or destination, which may include several points of interest or connections with other trails.

The Brown’s Creek State Trail is a beautiful, 5.9 mile-long, paved trail with a parallel, natural surface trail, suitable for horseback riding, starting from the Gateway State Trail, east to Lofton …

The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley. It was not a road in any modern sense, only parallel ruts leading across endless prairie, …

EASY - From .5 to 1 mile; grades are short, typically fewer than 100 feet and less than 10 percent of the trail length; easily accomplished by all users, including the elderly and those with …

This trail guides the rider through dry upland pine and oak woodlands with a brief diversion of highbush blueberry located about halfway along the eastern side while crossing a freshwater …

The sites of Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, stretching 5,043 miles across nine states, together form a journey of compassion and understanding.