Where a trail is designed for use by hikers or pedestrians and directly connects to a trailhead or another trail that substantially meets the requirements in 1017, the trail shall comply...
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F247.1 General
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What do you call a reroute?
If trail work is grouped into only three categories— construction, alteration, and maintenance—what category do things like rerouting, reconstruction, and extensions of existing trails fall...
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F247.5 Outdoor Constructed Features
Where outdoor constructed features are provided on trails, other than within facilities specified in F247.4, at least 20 percent, but not less than one, of each type of outdoor constructed...
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Braille Trails: Helping the Visually Impaired Experience Nature
As he began fixing up the trail and working with the Georgia Council of the Blind, Barnard promised to do whatever he could to help his new friends....
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Federal Trail Data Standards
Federal Trail Data Standards—Standards that are published by the Federal Geographic Data Committee....
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Designed Use
The Managed Use of a trail that requires the most demanding design, construction, and maintenance parameters and that, in conjunction with the applicable Trail Class, determines which Design...
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Step 3: Apply the Accessibility Provisions
Use the trail running slope (grade) as an example....
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Openings [1017.6]
Openings are gaps in the surface of a trail....
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Cross Slope [1017.7.2]
Cross slope is the side-to-side slope of a trail tread....
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7.4.2 Clear Tread Width
The clear tread width of the trail shall be at least 36 inches (915 mm)....
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F247.4 Trail Facilities
The facilities are required to comply with the applicable scoping requirements regardless of whether the trail complies with the technical requirements for trails in 1017....
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Trail Slopes
Short sections of steeper trail are allowed so that trails can be constructed in varying terrain....
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Federal Trail Data Standards (FTDS)
Standardized terminology that enable national, regional, and State trail managers, and the public, to use mutually understood terminology for recording, retrieving, and applying spatial...
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Protruding Object
A constructed feature such as a sign that extends into the trail tread more than 4 inches (100 mm) between 27 inches (685 mm) and 80 inches (2030 mm) above the trail tread. ...
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Trails Are Not Outdoor Recreation Access Routes
In contrast, a trail is defined for purposes of Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines (FSORAG) and FSTAG as a route that is designed, constructed, or designated for...
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7.4.4 Resting Intervals
Where the trail grade exceeds 1:20 (5 percent), resting intervals shall be provided as specified in Table 7.4.3.1....
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7.1 Conditions for an Exception
Where one or more of the following conditions exists on a trail, an “exception” provided in the guidelines for that specific technical requirement can be used where that condition exists...
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Short Hikes and Interesting Features
Sometimes it makes sense to provide a short section of trail meeting the technical requirements for accessibility on a trail that would otherwise be totally exempted from the technical requirements...
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Trail Managed Use
Trail Managed Use—Any mode of travel that is actively managed and appropriate for a specific trail or area, based on its design and management....
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Managed Use
An FTDS term for the mode(s) of travel for which a trail is actively managed....
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Maintenance
Routine or periodic repair of trails or trail segments to restore them to the standards to which they were originally designed and built. ...
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Protruding Objects [1017.9]
Objects that protrude into the trail clear tread width, passing spaces, and resting intervals can pose hazards to people who are blind or have low vision....
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1017.8.2 Width
This section requires resting intervals that are provided within the trail tread to be at least as wide as the widest segment of the trail tread leading to the resting interval....
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III. Results of the Study
Accessible Trail Designation Accessible Trail?...
