Author: Tracy Cowles
Major Program: Trail Design
A Trail Town is a destination along a long-distance trail or adjacent to an extensive trail system. Whether the trail is a hiking trail, water trail or rail trail, users can venture from the path to explore the unique scenery, commerce and heritage that each trail town has to offer. A Trail Town is a vibrant hub where people come together and is a friendly place that encourages trail town users to visit and welcomes them with warm hospitality. Any trail, long or short, is&nbs
Author: Jayoung Koo
The Kentucky Trail Town program was initiated in 2012 and guides communities in ways to take advantage of adventure tourism for community and economic development purposes. The Kentucky Department of Tourism, Office of Adventure Tourism facilitates the community and economic development initiative through trails as a resource-based approach. Communities are guided through three topical phases for creating a working trail town: community building, physical assessment, and economic structures and
Author: Sherri Broderick
Gallatin County is a small rural Kentucky county with a population of approximately 8,500. CountyHealthRankings.org data, rank Gallatin, 85th of 120 counties in Kentucky in health behaviors; 36% of adult residents are obese, and 32% report no physical activity. One strategy to improve county health rankings is to increase opportunities for physical activity, because only 8% reported access to physical activity. To explore ways to make the city of Warsaw (the county seat), a more walkab
