The Very Real Threats to Trails

At Rails to Trails Conservancy, we work hard every day to create more safe spaces for everyone to walk, bike and be active outside. Right now, the future we’re building—where trails create new connections for people to each other, their communities and the places they want to go—is under attack.

Serious challenges threaten to derail progress for trails, walking and biking and the positive impacts they deliver. Alarmingly, actions being taken at the federal level seek to undermine—or even eliminate—the crucial programs and funding sources that make trails and active transportation networks possible. The U.S. Department of Transportation has gone as far as to label some trail projects as “hostile to cars,” and members of Congress have vowed not to include any funding at all for trails in the next federal transportation bill.

With your support, RTC is fighting to defend vital trail programs and funding that are under attack in Washington, D.C.—helping us deliver the active transportation infrastructure Americans need.

Support trails today.