Trail Consulting and Planning Services

As a specialized trail contractor TrailArts understands the dynamics of creating sustainable, user-friendly, trail systems while limiting related impacts to our natural resources.

We offer several levels of trail development services that support the needs of our private and public sector clients, including Trail Consulting and Planning Services, Trail Construction Services, and Specialized Trail Subcontracting Services.

Our extensive field experiences and training allows us to bring the very latest trail technologies to your project. From the pre-planning phase through the construction phase and more, TrailArts is your source for natural surface trail development!

Trail Consulting and Planning Services:

TrailArts excels at balancing the dynamic needs of the trail user with sustainable and cost-effective management of the surrounding natural resources. Whatever the project, we strive to provide the most naturalistic and sustainable solutions for the enjoyment of the user, while limiting the impacts to the surrounding ecosystem.

Project Planning and Facilitation:

With any trail project, whether rehabilitation on existing trails or the development of an entirely new trail system, there are initially a myriad of details to be determined and organized. TrailArts offers professional consulting services that support the preliminary phases of project planning and facilitation including site analysis, feasibility studies, cost estimates, presentations, and public meetings. Our consulting services can help you cut through the red tape, organize the details, and get your project started on the right foot!

Site Planning and Trail Layout:

Every great trail starts with sound basis for its plan and professional execution of the final layout, and yours should too! TrailArts will provide you with field-based site analysis, specification-based alignments, and GPS/GIS analysis. And all of our work is based on proven rolling-contour trail planning and layout standards developed by the Professional Trail Builders Association (PTBA), the USDA National Forest Service, Arrowhead Trails, Inc. (ATI), and the International Mountain Bicycle Association (IMBA). From a simple re-route to a fully master-planned system of trails TrailArts has the knowledge and experience to provide sustainable user-friendly alignments over the most challenging of terrain!

Trail Resource Training:

TrailArts also provides organizations, clubs, groups, and agencies with classroom or field-based trail resource training and education. We offer practical informative instruction on trail planning and project coordination, volunteer leadership and crew-leading, trail-side resource management, multi-user trail dynamics, mechanized and non-mechanized natural surface construction methods, on-the-trail fitness requirements, responsible trail use, and more! From workshops or seminars that encompass large bodies of information to specified presentations and clinics, we can provide the practical knowledge you need to maximize the capabilities of your volunteers or personnel!

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