Mitchell Allen Trail Project Manager for the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation #88

Trail EAffect Episode 88 Mitchell Allen Trail Project Manager for the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation

The Mitchell Allen Back Story
The relationship between conservation and recreation
Developing properties in Arkansas that allow for more recreation to help connect people with the land, and help to engage new users onto the properties
The difficult part of collecting user data on properties
What the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation is
Mitchell’s role as Trail Project Manager
What Monument Trails Are
Elevation found at State Parks in Arkansas
Trail Maintenance
Rock Armoring Trails and Jumps
Wood Features on Trails
What inspires Mitchell while traveling to other communities to bring back to Arkansas
Building really good beginner trails, the importance of beginner Trails, and some of the difficulty that comes with building beginner trails as well.
A famous failure or learning experience
- Keeping the community needs in mind
- Learning how much Mitchell didn’t know from others
- Thinking about all trail users
- Directional Trails Making more sense to Mitchell
- Value in separating groups and value in keeping groups together and where
Going deeper on Directional Trails
The Internet
Earbuds in the woods
What Mitchell thinks makes a great trail community
Closing comments by Mitchell
Experience all of Arkansas
- Womble Trail

Links discussed in the show:

The Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation: https://www.arparksfoundation.org/

This Podcast has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services

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