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The purpose of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is to enrich America's communities and countrysides by creating a nationwide network of public trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors.

A resource serving as a roadmap for states and communities that have recognized the need for smart growth, but are unclear on how to achieve it. The document provides ten policy options to achieve each of the ten Smart Growth principles endorsed by the Smart Growth Network.

This federal government website lists outdoor recreation opportunities in all 50 states.

Rivers & Trails works in urban, rural, and suburban communities with the goal of helping communities achieve on-the-ground conservation successes for their projects. They work with community groups and local, State, and federal government agencies to conserve rivers, preserve open space, and develop trails and greenways.

Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.

Created in 1916, the National Park Service manages and provides oversight for the nation's national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, historical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the White House.

This program has been successfully used across the United States to engage youth and adults in community development and change. The process begins with youth trained to collect data that help to provide a comprehensive look at existing community resources. The resulting CYM database highlights resource availability and gaps in a community and serves as a basis for organizing community change. Community Youth Mapping is a youth development strategy instituted by the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. It is ideally coordinated by a local public/private/nonprofit partnership and led by a local community-based institution.

This guidebook was written to help those who are planning, designing, building and managing multi-use trails. It guides readers through the process of creating a trail from start to finish and managing the trail for the future. This edition includes new regulations and guidelines for designing well-built trails for users of all types, and people of all abilities, in a manner that also heals the landscape and restores ecological integrity.

American Trails is a national, nonprofit organization working on behalf of all trail interests

Today, two-thirds of the public lands in the lower 48 states are within an hour's drive of large cities and growing communities. Lands managed by the BLM have become the West's backyard, providing one of the last guarantees of open space.