See solutions and ideas for trails and greenways at www.AmericanTrails.org/resources.

the book is “balancing the needs of the recreationists with protection of resources.” A website dedicated to the guidebook content contains all of the text, plus additional photos and references.

Read more and access the Great Trails guide at http://tinyurl.com/jq2g6c2.

Backcountry lodging plan for Adirondack Park

lodgings linked to hundreds of miles of community-based trails.” A new report on the project is called Concept Plan for a Hut-to-Hut Destination- based Trail System for the Five Towns Minerva, and North Hudson.

Download the 112-page Adirondack Hut-to-Hut Plan at http://atfiles.org/ files/pdf/Adirondack-hut-to-hut-plan. pdf.

San Jose studies elevated route for Three Creeks Trail

The City of San Jose has an ambi- tious goal to develop a 100-mile inter- connected trail network. The City’s Three Creeks Trail is a challenging route due to a lack of public right-of- way, street crossings, and intersec-  corridor, High Speed Rail corridor, and an active UP railroad. All of these constraints suggest an at-grade trail is infeasible. The purpose of a new Vision Study is to evaluate the possi-

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Forest Preserve is proposing a “hut to hut” system which would draw on experience with backcountry lodging throughout the world. The goal is for a destination trail system that would attract visitors with comfortable lodg- ing through all four seasons. The concept is intriguing: “The vast, six-million acre Adirondack Park— with its peaks and valleys,  ponds, trails and forest tracts, rivers and streams, bustling villages and quiet hamlets, all spread throughout its patchwork quilt of public and private land— could have scores of

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bility of an elevated trail, and develop a vision for what that elevated trail structure could look like.

Read more and download the study at www.AmericanTrails.org/resources/ structures/sj3creeks.html.

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