Leading With Trails — A Trails are Common Ground Guidebook
Leading With Trails — A Trails are Common Ground Guidebook
Published: 2024
Audience & Application
This guidebook is the ultimate resource for building community support and political will, asserting that trails are for everyone and demonstrating how to successfully plan and advocate for modern trail systems.
- Everyone: This book is designed to inspire and equip anyone who recognizes the need for new and better trails. Individuals Building a Compelling Case: The book includes powerful statistics to make a compelling case to stakeholders and features real-world examples of communities that have succeeded in making their trail dreams a reality. This material allows you to share examples of what modern trails look like and to demonstrate that success can be achieved.
About the Book
Trails are Common Ground believes that trails are for everyone. Yet as trails draw more and different types of users, we’ve learned that one trail can’t always do it all. To really enjoy a trail requires that we be free from the worry of what we might encounter over the next rise or around the next corner.
Over the past 30 years, an entire profession has emerged dedicated to the planning, design, construction and management of great trails. Everyday, these trail professionals work to create new trail systems and improve existing trails to meet the evolving needs of the communities that use and love them. This guide leans on their experience to share some of the most important considerations and best practices for trail planning so you can build support in your community. It includes statistics that make a compelling case to stakeholders and examples of communities who have succeeded in making their trail dreams a reality, so you can share examples of what modern trails look like and to show that yes, it can be done.
All trail projects have one thing in common: they began with a person just like you. Someone who recognized the need for new and better trails and took the initiative to start making it happen. When you lead with trails, your entire community benefits.
