Focus Term: Recreational Trails Program
Five Top Trails That Make the Case for America’s Recreational Trails Program
Nearly three decades after its inception, the need for the RTP has only intensified as trail development accelerates nationally. The country has increased its number of rail-trails from around 500 to more than 2,200.
Connectivity Evolution: Examining a Decade of Rails-to-Trails’ Impact, 2010–2020
Explore the Rails to Trails Conservancy movement and how it transformed American communities and enhanced active lifestyles from 2010-2020.
Seven Ways Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Brought Big Impact in 2019
This year, America and the rail-trail movement saw giant leaps, and small-but-no-less-important bounds, that have helped to achieve RTC’s goal of connecting the country by trail like never before.
Trail Networks and Spines: Key Components As Congress Discusses America’s Mobility Future
RTC encourages Congress to consider the positive impacts active transportation can have on communities with trail networks and spines.
Trail Geek Terminology (A Cheat-Sheet to Satisfy Your Inner Wonk)
RTC’s put together this little trail-geek cheat sheet so that we can all bone up on our trail and active-transportation policy speak.
30 Years: Birth and Evolution of the American Rail-Trail Movement
In 2016, RTC celebrated its 30th anniversary and the birth and evolution of the American Rail-Trail Movement.
West Virginia’s North Bend Rail Trail
North Bend Rail Trail is the Trail of the Month. The 69 mile North Bend Rail Trail is in the pantheon of stories about local trail advocacy.
