The Big View Trail (Trail 10)
Rock Creek Trail System- Eldorado NF
Modern trail management is not just about OHV
recreation. It also applies to a wide
variety of other outdoor trail-based activities which include mountain bikes, equestrians,
and hikers.
Trail Management Sign for Shared-Use
As outdoor trail-based recreation continues to grow in
popularity throughout the country, QWR supports those public land agencies and
private sector units that have embraced wet weather-based and other management
prescriptions that help protect trail integrity and conserve natural resources.
Sediment Catch Basin/Rolling Dip - Shared-Use Trail
A recent review of the Mace Mill (Rock Creek) trail
network, prompted QWR to highlight the ongoing effort by Eldorado National Forest recreation staff to manage and maintain mixed-use trail opportunities
to sustain high-quality outdoor experiences for a diverse user community.
Shared-Use Trail
QWR believes there are three key components (3 Cs) to successfully
managing a unit that offers mixed-use or shared-use trail-based opportunities
for motorized and non-motorized recreation.
Those factors are commitment, communication, and collaboration.
FS Information Booth at 2017 Fools Gold Enduro
3C engagement between agency staff and user groups can
occur in a number of ways. Those venues
or methods may include formal recreation advisory councils (RACs), substantive
and updated websites/social media, joint field trips, volunteer projects, agency
staff attending club meetings or events to provide current information, and/or just
picking up the phone to ask a question or offer help.
Trail Courtesy Sign
QWR has an axiom that “The quality of your local trail
recreation program is or will be directly proportional to the quality of your
engagement with agency staff and other users.”
If you have not done so already, QWR urges both user
groups and agency staff to make that long-term commitment to help ensure current
and future access to high quality trail-based recreational opportunities.
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