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• National Scenic and Historic Trails Accomplishments 2001-2005 This report highlights activities throughout the National Trails System that relate to a 5-agency Memorandum of Understanding originally signed in 2001. In this period, not only were new trails added to the system, but many miles of trail corridor were developed and protected. (PDF 3.5 MB)
• Trails for America In 1966 the US Department of the Interior issued the seminal booklet, Trails for America, that became an important foundation document to the National Trails System Act passed two years later in 1968. (PDF 10.12 MB)
• Trails for All Americans A national trails agenda formed by a private-public task force. Some recommendations are now dated, but the basic vision of integrated trails systems available to all, health benefits, interagency collaboration, protected resource corridors, and trails as infrastructure is still valid today. (PDF 5.15 MB)
• The Iditarod Trail (Seward-Nome Route) and other Alaskan Gold Rush Trails (1977)(PDF 18.8 MB)
• The Mormon Trail: A Study Report (1978)(PDF 4.27 MB)
• The Pony Express Stations of Utah in Historical Perspective (1979)(PDF 1.57 MB)
• The Santa Fe Trail: A National Scenic Trail Study(1976)(PDF 2.57 MB)