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Put your frustrations to rest and come map out a plan of action to guide Oregon’s next 15 years of trail development! Oregon has seen a proliferation of interest in developing regional trails and regional trail systems across the state, to augment quality of life and build world-class infrastructure for trail users from around the globe. However, most of these ambitious, visionary community leaders who have embarked on an audacious multi-jurisdictional trail project have run into exceptional hurdles – whether they be leadership, environmental permitting, funding or implementation. Some visionary projects have hung in limbo for more than a decade. Come break down these barriers with us. Hear from trail projects that have had success, help identify common challenges, and develop a list of priority actions for Oregon to address in order to help actualize these trail systems.
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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.
