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Newsletters & reports | Steering committees | Regional workshops | Regional issues | Trails inventory | Trail user survey
During the 2003-2007 Oregon Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Planning (SCORP) process, recreation providers across the state expressed a strong desire for the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) to update existing Oregon Statewide Trails Plans (OHV and Recreational Trails Plans). They also felt the trails plan should address a growing interest in canoe, rafting, and kayak routes (water trails) throughout the state. Based on this reported need, a planning objective in the Oregon SCORP states that OPRD will develop a Statewide Trails Plan with input from federal, state, special district, county and municipal providers and advocacy groups.
As a result, OPRD is embarking on a two-year
statewide trails planning effort beginning in January
of 2003. The effort involves separate (but concurrent)
motorized,
non-motorized, and water trails planning components. Specific
planning objectives include:
- Assessing the needs and opinions of Oregon's citizens as they relate to trail recreation opportunities and management (motorized, non-motorized and water).
- Establishing priorities for expenditures from the Oregon ATV Grant Program, Federal Recreational Trails Program and other applicable sources.
- Developing strategic directions to guide activities for OPRD's ATV Program, statewide recreational trails planning and water access goals.
- Gathering additional inventory measurement data for motorized and non-motorized trail resources and facilities.
- Conducting a systematic inventory of existing and potential water trails and facilities, identifying priority needs and potential funding sources.
- Recommending actions that enhance motorized, non-motorized and water trail opportunities to all agencies and the private sector who provide trail resources in Oregon.
The effort will result in three planning
documents, packaged into one volume, providing a one-stop
planning document for recreational planners who often work
on motorized, non-motorized trails/riding area planning
and water trails. The plans will be designed as an information
resource as well as a planning tool to guide agencies for
the nextfive years. Final planning documents are scheduled
for
completion in December 2004.
For
a more in-depth description of the trails planning
effort, read the Proposed Oregon Statewide Trails
Plan, [ RTF 38
KB ] or [ PDF 98
KB ] or the Oregon Statewide Trails Inventory, Analysis,
and Mapping Project, [ PDF 36
KB ].
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