WHO WE ARE
MISSION: Promoting people using trails, walkways, bikeways, greenways, blueways, and brownways.
PURPOSE: To manage office and staff and the public relations of Indiana Trails. To research, monitor, and teach about trails, trail groups, and trail activities.
VISION: To encourage Indiana to become a trail state via people and activities.
Webinars
Indiana Trails Community decided to host a series of webinars in lieu of a conference in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After the webinars took place, Indiana Trails Community uploaded them to the Indiana Trails Community Youtube Channel. The individual webinars are linked below:
Educational Webinar Series
Episode 1: Moving Indiana Forward
Episode 2: Where Trails & Transit Connect
Episode 3: Waterway Bridge Bike-Pedestrian Accommodations
Previous Feature Articles
Now Discussing: Protected Pathways on Bridges
Big Four Bridge - a former railroad bridge crossing the Ohio River connecting Jeffersonville and Louisville - converted into a pedestrian and bicycle pathway ... one of the most popular multi-use bridges in the U.S.
Southern Indiana proposal: "Why Indiana Trails Community is concerned with the I-69 Ohio River crossing (ORX) Project"
General information: Examples of Bridges With Protected Bike and Hike Accommodations in Indiana
Indiana Trails Community educational webinar covering bike and hike accommodations on bridges.
Now Discussing: American Discovery Trail
American Discovery Trail as it passes through Indiana, including both the Northern and Southern Routes.
Indiana Trails supports the National Discovery Trails Act which would turn the American Discovery Trail into a National Trail (Like the Appalachian Trail), increasing tourism and economic development to cater to trail users. Ask your legislators to support H.R. 4878.
Now Discussing: Rails-with-Trails
Cross-section diagram depicting one type of rail-with-trail design.
Central Indiana proposal: "Nickel Plate Corridor: A Vision for Our Future"
General information: Rails-with-Trails
CBS4 Marketplace Interview
Nickel Plate Promotional Video