ATS14- Developing regional trails: Mapping a path for moving intention to reality with a bit more velocity! - Mark Davison

Mt. Hood to Rose City Trail

Kathleen WalkerU.S. Forest Service

Mt. Hood to Rose City Trail

Kathleen WalkerU.S. Forest Service

Mt. Hood to Rose City Trail & Greenway Corridor

A Regional Trail from Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood to Portland via FS roads and trails, BLM routes, local community trails, Cazadero and Springwater Trails in Boring, to Portland on Springwater.

Bicycle sections still being defined: road verses mountain bike. Considering multiple options.

Mt. Hood to Rose City Trail and Greenway Corridor  

Springwater in Boring to Sandy

Paved Gresham to Boring late 2013, Cazadero Trail – graveled.

Boring to Sandy: Clackamas County. 2/3rds of it along a City of Sandy sewer easement along Tickle Creek – not constructed.

Across Sandy: Tickle Creek Trail (pedestrian, mt bike) and Dubarko Rd (arterial) road bike lane – constructed.

Sandy to Brightwood

Pedestrian/mt. bike: 8,000 acres of BLM lands acquired from PGE including Marmot Dam and newly constructed Sandy Ridge Mt. Bike Trail System – not constructed.

Road bike: Marmot Rd. & Barlow Trail Rd.ad (original wagon route).

Brightwood to Rhododendron

Villages of Mt. Hood : Community trail system linking villages.

BPA Powerline Corridor on Crutcher’s Bench - <1/3 completed

Rhododendron to Timberline Lodge – Mt. Hood NF

Pedestrians/mt. bikes: Pioneer Bridle Trail (old Barlow Road), Crosstown, Timberline to Town hike/mt. bike trails - complete

Road bikes: Various Forest summerhome roads, old abandoned Mt. Hood Highway segments, Westleg Road – needs some paving.

Key Ingredients to Success Know a realistic timeline (decade+) Get key stakeholders involved early and often

(turnover) for buy-in. Get it on Regional Plan documents. Eat the elephant a bite at a time-low hanging fruit first.

Key Ingredients to Success

Get it started – as segments of the trail necklace are built and admired, there is more synergy to link segments to make an entire necklace.

Consider master plans a segment at a time.

Consider trying to pool funds from partners to cover master planning costs (pyramid).

Perseverance, persistence, and polite pressure.

Partner, collaborate, schmooze, sell it at all levels from neighbors, users, to Congress and Senators.

Anticipate and be ready for grant opportunities

Challenges/ Hurdles

Multiple jurisdictions, partners and landowners.

May not be the priority for some lead agencies.

Easements !$!. Are there alternative routes or temporary segments available?

Permits!$!~ Trails, especially across developable land, get located closer to streams and wetlands which require permits.

Know your zoning and development code.

Consider changes to code or zoning ahead of project if it makes sense.

Potential Solutions Consider cheaper and alternative ways to design

and construct trails.

Partner with agencies & groups that can help.

Consider time & equipment contracts combined with youth corps non-profits or hire a qualified trail contractor to work with less skilled labor groups.

Consider compacted gravel with binders.

Cheaper, permeable, barrier free, maintainable with volunteers, hand tools and wheelbarrows.

Can be paved in the future if desired or when $$ allow.