This report provides 12 principles for minimizing conflicts on multiple-use trails. Although this report is about conflicts on trails, it is intended to promote cooperation and understanding among trail users and to inspire ideas that will help reduce trail conflict. It is intended to be used by trail managers, State and local trail coordinators, researchers, and trail-user volunteer organizations.
In crowded recreational locales such as open space parks, bikers and hikers increasingly are finding that their recreational outing has evolved into a series of maneuvers to avoid other users.
Jefferson County Open Space, with over 120 miles of recreational trails In its system of parks and trails and approximately 1,000,000 visits/ year to that system, has developed methods to reduce trail use conflicts.
An overview for estimating trail costs of land acquisition, design, construction, and management.
A GreenWays Initiative Presentation that explores different trail management & operation options.
This is the Trail Management Policy Handbook for the Greene County GreeneWays in Ohio.
There are three Michigan laws that allow for one or more local governments to create an interlocal government entity for owning and operating a trail.
