ton along a pond and wetlands in-  an accessible launch facility for kayaks and canoes.

Youth Conservation/Service Corps and Community Outreach

Rock Creek Park Bridge Project – District of Columbia

Student Conservation Association worked with the National Park Ser- vice to build four trail bridges at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

Youth Conservation/Service Corps and Community Outreach

Utah Conservation Corps Bike Crew – Utah

The trail crew used bicycles as their only transportation in improving trails at the Utah State Parks sites.

Engaging Public-Sector Partners Eureka Trail – Tennessee

RTP funding enabled the acquisition from Athens to Englewood, which has since been developed as a multi-use trail.

Outstanding State Recreational Trails Advisory Committee Trails Advisory Board – Indiana

 includes both motorized and non- motorized users who represent their constituents, not industry or agency, interests in trails to the board as well as sharing important trail information with them.

The Recreational Trails Program

The Recreational Trails Program (RTP) of the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration pro- vides funds to the States to develop and maintain recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both nonmo- torized and motorized trail uses. RTP

Rock Creek Park Bridge Project, Washington, D.C.

funds come from the Federal Highway Trust Fund, and represent a portion of the motor fuel excise tax collected from nonhighway recreational fuel use. Since 1991, more than 20,000 RTP- funded projects have been funded na- tionwide and are documented on the RTP database documented for public use on www.recreationaltrailsinfo.org.

The RTP leverages hundreds of mil- lions of dollars of additional support from other sources for trails, encour- ages productive cooperation among trail users, and facilitates healthy out- door recreation and economic activity across America.

Nevada Conservation Corps Crew on the Ash to Kings Trail, Nevada Read more and see photos of the CRT award winners:www.AmericanTrails.org/awards/CRT16awards