“๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ… ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐บ๐ด๐ช๐ด. ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ.” – RTC President Ryan Chao
This week, we announced new findings about the scope and impact of the nationโs developing trail networks. Hereโs what our analysis found:
1๏ธโฃ There are more than 150 known trail networks nationwide, including at least one in every state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
2๏ธโฃ Approximately half of the people in the United States live in a county that is home to a developing trail network.
3๏ธโฃ Of those counties, 74% are majority suburban/urban and 26% are majority rural populations.
Thank you to WOSU Public Media for partnering with us to host the live broadcast of the announcement at your studio in Columbus, Ohio, as well as William Murdock, executive director at Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), and Melodie Mendez, New York and Northeast regional coordinator at Latino Outdoors, for being a part of our panel discussion!
To explore the findings, an interactive map of the 150 known trail networks, the recording of the broadcast, and the incredible impacts connected trails are having on communities across the country, please visit RailsToTrails.Org/TrailNation.
Photo of a US map featuring known trail networksโincluding the cross-country Great American Rail-Trail; the East Coast Greenway Alliance; TrailNation projects, such as networks advanced by The Circuit Trails, Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition, Caracara Trails, Baltimore Greenway Trails Coalition; and other known trail networks.
