TrailArts blends the artistry of nature with the sciences of sustainable resource management to provide the highest quality natural-surface trail systems. We assist the public and private sectors with the planning, layout, construction, re-construction, and maintenance of shared use-trails that maximize user satisfaction while minimizing impacts to the surrounding environment.
TrailArts specializes in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions for the development and management of natural- surface multi-user recreational trails in any variety of urban, suburban, rural or back-country setting. Our intuitive understanding of natural resource, land use, and recreation management is based on extensive experiences in the field and more than a decade of recreation advocacy, trail consulting and trail construction.
TrailArts unique ability to balance the preservation of our natural resources with the demand to provide accommodating and sustainable facilities for ever-increasing numbers of and types of trail users is reflected in every service we provide. Our no-nonsense approach to trail planning and construction provides our clients the most state of the art trail development services available!
Trail Construction Resumes on M-Hill Rapid City!
Construction is underway on the M East Gateway Trail! This 2,700 ft alignment will climb from the bottom of Founders Park Drive to the top of the ridge and will include a total of 8 climbing turns and numerous stone features. One of the primary gateway trails on the project, it will open access from the bottom of the M-Hill/Cowboy Hill property to the myriad of single-tracks and newly built trails along the ridgelines. Rapid City locals can look forward to it’s completion by the 1st of April!
Stonework resumes at High Chaparral Open Space Scenic Overlook!
The new ADA compliant scenic overlook under construction at the high point of the High Chaparral Ridgeline Trail offers amazing views of the foothills and alpine ranges of the entire Pikes Peak Region. Encircling the new overlook is a 30ft diameter wet-laid sitting wall. With the foundation structure completed and the above-ground component well on the way, TrailArts crew will be returning in late January to finalize its construction!
In addition, during 2008 TrailArts completed major rehabilitation work on 4,150 feet of the Ridgeline Trail, upgrading it to Tier 3 Urban Trail Standards, and also closed and naturalized nearly 7,500 feet of unsustainable and redundant social paths and trails throughout the open space. With these improvements and a huge effort from the Colorado Youth Corps to build two additional rolling contour single-track loops there are now almost four miles of new sustainable trails open for hiking and mountain biking!
Dirt (and rocks) Fly at Cowboy Hill Rapid City!
Dave, Joey Klein of IMBA Trail Solutions, and Gre Mazu of Singletrack Trails, Inc have completed machine assisted construction on the “Sunset”, “M” East 3, and “M-Connection” Trails! And with the assistance of a very productive volunteer day organized by IMBA member club BHMBA www.bhmba.org, the upper “M” East, “M” West was also completed! In all about a mile of great new trails through lots of rock, interesting bread-dough clay, and some challenging weather! For 09 we’ll get started on the gateway “M” East 1” and “Far East” Trails then move on to four more alignments to be completed by May!
