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Pedal Forward: Preparing Advocacy Plans for 2025 State Legislative Sessions
November 20, 2024
Join the TrailNation Collaborative, powered by Rails to Trails Conservancy (RTC), for a session exploring how to best position your active transportation and trail asks for upcoming state legislative sessions, most of which will occur in the winter and spring of 2025. The goal of this dialogue is to give state- and metropolitan-level advocates around […]
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The Joy of Celebrating Trails Day 2024
May 13, 2024

Celebrate Trails Day 2024 was celebrated in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Our partners planned more than 240 celebrations.

Bronzeville Trail Task Force, Major Taylor Bike Club & The Misfits Cycling Club riding Chicago's Major Taylor Trail | Photo by Douglas Monieson
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You Can Get to These Eco-Friendly Stadiums by Trail
April 07, 2024

These stadiums are eco-friendly champs, but they also encourage fans to reduce their carbon footprint by getting to the games via trails.

Participants on an Urban AdvenTours ride reach Boston's TD Garden | Photo courtesy Urban AdvenTours
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Wintertime Trail Fun
January 31, 2024

A wintertime trail brings a whole new way to explore such as cross-country ski, snowshoe, fat-tire bike or take a walk through the snow.

Alaska's Tony Knowles Coastal Trail | Photo by Jody O. Photos
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Best Practices Synthesis and Guidance in At-Grade Trail-Crossing Treatments
August 31, 2023
At-grade trail crossings have frequently been the sites of bicycle, pedestrian, and snowmobile crashes in Minnesota and throughout the nation. To date, many resources exist for use in the design of trails and intersections, such as the MnDOT Bikeway Facility Design Manual, while guidelines of traffic control at roadway-trail crossings are covered in the MN […]
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Minnesota and North Dakota’s Greenway of Greater Grand Forks
October 05, 2022

Over the past two decades, the Greenway of Greater Grand Forks has attracted more and more uses, and Greendahl said she often gets requests for new features, such as more river access points.

Greenway of Greater Grand Forks | Photo by TrailLink user thejake91739
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20 Iconic Bike and Pedestrian Bridges in America
June 07, 2022

Across the country, bridges are literally serving as gateways for communities to achieve critical strides in active transportation, conservation and economic development. Here, we take a look at 20 iconic bridges and trestles in the United States (in no particular order) that have played—or are playing—transformative connectivity roles in their regions.

Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge connecting Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska | Photo by Matthew Nissen
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Long-Distance Rides on Hall of Fame Rail-Trails
August 30, 2021

Here’s a fun look at long distance rides on some of our previous Hall of Fame trails spanning nearly 100 miles or more.

Silver Comet Trail | Photo by TrailLink user papa t
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Top 10 Trails in Minnesota
April 08, 2021

Minnesota is a power player with more than 2,100 open miles of such pathways to explore in every corner of the state for trails in Minnesota.

Minnesota's Mesabi Trail | Photo courtesy of Iron Range Tourism