Trails Move People Projects

Welcome to the Trails Move People "shovel-ready" trail project survey. Thank you for your participation.

The purpose of this survey is to quantify the capacity of the trails community to build, maintain, and develop trails now, and to provide input to the Departments of Agriculture and Interior process for prioritizing and awarding Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) funding. This questionnaire asks about shovel-ready trail projects that, if funding were available and working conditions are safe, could be begun by the next summer and completed by the end of the 2025 federal FY. The questions below ask about trail project name, location, approximate budget, and a limited number of other key project characteristics.

Working with American Trails, you may choose to keep detailed project information like budgets confidential, in which case your responses will only be made public in aggregated form (e.g., state, congressional district, agency level reporting). You may also choose to make your project details public, in which case, your project(s) will be reviewed by a group of trail community representatives from a diverse spectrum of trail user types and a prioritized list will be provided directly to Agency leadership for purposes of recommending GAOA and LWCF funding in the next fiscal year.

Therefore, submission of your project information brings the following benefits:

1. Aggregated data will demonstrate the power the trails community can bring to bear to help put people to work and improve our transportation and recreation infrastructure.
2. Specific project data can help land managers to prioritize the next 4 years of trail funding available through the GAOA and LWCF programs.
3. Additionally, your specific project data can put your project(s) in front of funders to help you receive the critical funding you need to complete your project(s).

Thank you for submitting to this important effort. If you have any questions before proceeding, please email trailhead@americantrails.org.

Trail Project Questions

The following section of the questionnaire ask about the "shovel-ready" trail projects you manage. You will be given the opportunity to enter information for more than one project. If you manage more than one "shovel-ready" trail project, please enter them in order of size, from largest to smallest, based on the approximate amount of work (i.e., jobs, professional time) each project will generate.

It may be helpful to take a moment now and gather the information you will need to respond to the following questions about your "shovel-ready" trail projects.

This information includes:

• Project names and locations
• Approximate total project budgets and timelines
• Approximate numbers of project jobs or workers
• Project characteristics and features (e.g., land type, mileage, types of project work, user types, accessibility, etc.)
• If helpful, download this PDF of the survey questions so you can gather all information prior to filling out the online survey.

Where is this project?

Please mark the approximate geographic center of this trail project by either entering an address, or dragging the marker to a location on the map.

** If you chose to make this project data anonymous above, this data will only be used to put a dot on a map, and not cost or other details will be made publicly available.

Have another project to submit?

Hit the "submit" button below, and you will be taken to the "Thank You" page, where you can choose to submit another project, and you will be taken to the beginning of another blank form which you make fill out.

There is no limit to the number of projects that you may submit.