To celebrate my spouse’s successful completion of graduate school this week, we took an overnight trip to San Antonio to check out museums and the several mile new extension of the San Antonio Riverwalk, part of a multi-year effort to extend the river walk to 13 miles from Brackenridge Park to the north and Mission Espada to the south. After …
Washington DC: Biking the Mount Vernon Trail
I’m (Charlie) in DC for EarthShare National meetings Thu and Fri, and since we have the National Trails Day workday on Barton Creek Greenbelt on Sat and I need to be back in Austin Friday night, I decided to come a day early, take it as a vacation day, rent a bike and ride another one of DC’s great hike …
Trails Symposium Day 2: Field Trip
Today I went with about 40 others on a 15 mile (or so) bike trip along the River Trails, from N. Little Rock to the Big Dam Bridge (biggest ped/bike bridge) and back through woods, meadows, park land, public easements over private land (with several organizations that have bike commuters and facilities). Fantastic. Here’s a few pictures, the leaders and …
Trails Symposium: Friends of Katy Trail Dallas
Bikers to the left, walkers and runners to the right One of the speakers I was pleased to hear on Sunday during Day 1 of the National Trails Symposium was Eric Van Steenberg, Friends of the Katy Trail in Dallas. Since 1997, this non-profit has raised over $21 M to build a 3.5 mile, dual trail (one path for runners, …
Day 1 – National Trails Symposium in Little Rock
Charlie here, reporting after the first full day at the National Trails Symposium in Little Rock AR. This event happens every two years and is brought to life by the American Trails non-profit. In 2004, it was in Austin and I co-hosted one of the outdoor workshops. I’m just here to learn and after four sessions today, I’m sorting through …
Urban Parks Conference in Pittsburgh
We’re in Pittsburgh for the Urban Parks Summit. Over 600 participants from 12 countries talking about parks funding, strategy and financing, among many other things. More news later this week, but first a few photos of parks and trails in and around downtown…..
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