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Florida Trail Towns Presentation
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Florida Trail Towns
Overview
Goals:
- Enhance the quality of the Florida trail experience
- Promote tourism and growth of Florida's trails
- Increase the amount and frequency of Florida trail users
- Boost Trail Town's economy via purchases from trail users
- Engage citizens with Florida's trail system through active community participation
- Create a designation program for Florida Trail Towns:
- biking
- multi-use
- shared use non-motorized
- hiking
- paddling
- equestrian
The Main Street Approach
From Main Street America
The Main Street Approach
1. Identify the community vision for success
2. Create community transformation strategies
Economic Vitality
Design
Promotion
Organization
3. Impact and Measurement
Florida Trail Towns
Florida Trail Towns
Dunedin's central downtown area exemplifies the "Main Street Approach" from The National Main Street Center
Safety
- Wide sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and crosswalks
- Well-lit and navigable downtown business district and amenities
- Law enforcement is familiar with the trail terrain, length, and town
- Medical services for trail users
Safety
Wide sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and crosswalks
Wide sidewalks, protected bike lanes, and crosswalks
Bikes on Busway in Miami-Dade County
Pinellas Trail in Tarpon Springs
Well-lit and navigable downtown business district and amenities
Well-lit and navigable downtown business distri...
Pinellas Trail
Law enforcement is familiar with the trail terrain, length, and town
Law enforcement is familiar with the trail terrain, length, and town
Fort Fraser Trail
Medical services for trail users
Medical services for trail users
"Res-Q-trailers" from the Greenways and Trails Foundation
Trail
- Long distance trail, trail loop, or a connecting trail into a larger trail system
- Neighboring trails
- Multiple trails and/or multiple types of trails
- Excellent and well maintained trail conditions
Long distance trail, trail loop, or a connecting trail into a larger system
Long distance trail, trail loop, or a connecting trail into a larg...
FKOHT at Pigeon Key
FKOHT and East Coast Greenway
Neighboring trails
Withlacoochee State Trail
Multiple trail and/or multiple types of trails
Good Neighbor Trail
St. Marks Trail
Excellent and well maintained trail conditions
Excellent and well maintained trail conditions
Jonathan Dickinson State Park
Accessibility
- Trail traverses town or is in close proximity
- Clearly identified paths from the trail to the central downtown area
- Facilities and amenities are convenient to trail entrance into town
- Business owners and citizens are friendly and welcoming to trail users
Accessibility
Trail traverses town or is in close proximity
Trail traverses town or is in close proximity
Clearly identified paths from the trail to the central downtown area
Clearly identified paths from the trail to the centr...
Pinellas Trail in Tarpon Springs
Facilities and amenities are convenient to trail entrance to town
Facilities and amenities are convenient to trail entrance ...
Pinellas Trail
Business owners and citizens are friendly and welcoming
Business owners and citizens are friendly and welcoming
Downtown Dunedin
Town Participation
- Trail-oriented Community Support Organization or local trail advocacy groups
- Annual trail festivals or events
- Trail Town Plan or local development plan that includes trails
- Citizen initiative to foster and maintain trail growth and traffic
- Coordination with neighboring communities
Trail-oriented Commmunity Support Organization or local trail advocacy groups
Trail-oriented Commmunity Support Organization ...
Palatka community support and initiative for Bartram Trail
Annual trail festivals or events
Annual trail festivals or events
Fat Tire Festival at the Santos Trailhead on the Cross
Florida Greenway
Trail Town Plan or local development plan that includes trails
Trail Town Plan or local development plan th...
Lake Worth Bike Rack
Citizen initiative to foster and maintain trail growth and traffic
Citizen initiative to foster and maintain trail growth a...
Armstrong on St. John's River-to-Sea Loop
Coordination with neighboring communities
Coordination with neighboring communities
White Springs
Businesses
- Provide necessary and specific goods and services to trail users
- Coalition of local businesses that continue to grow and support the trail
- Marketing and discounts to trail users as an incentive to come into town
Provide necessary and specific goods and services to trail users
Provide necessary and specific goods and services ...
Winter Garden Bike Shop
Coalition of local businesses that continue to grow and support the trail
Coalition of local businesses that continue to grow and support t...
Marketing and discounts to trail users as an incentive to come into town
Marketing and discounts to trail users as an incentive to co...
Kayak rental at Robbies in the Keys
Amenities
- Bike racks, boat docks and launches, hitching posts, etc.
- Reasonably priced food with local influences and adequate parking for trail users
- Overnight accomodations (hotels, bed and breakfasts, cabins, & campgrounds)
- Easily accessible drinking fountains or potable water sources
- Food that can be purchased and easily packaged for trail use
Bike racks, boat docks and launches, hitching posts, etc.
Bike racks, boat docks and launches, hitching pos...
Alum Bluff Campsite on the Apalachicola River
Downtown Dunedin bike rack
Reasonably priced food with local influences and adequate parking for trail users
Reasonably priced food with local influences and adequa...
Jim's Place on Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail
St. Marks Riverside Cafe
Overnight accommodations (hotels, bed & breakfasts, cabins, campgrounds)
Overnight accommodations (hotels, bed & breakfas...
St. Marks Sweet Magnolia Inn
Rock Island Campsite on Big Bend Coast
Easily accessible drinking fountains or potable water sources
Easily accessible drinking fountains or potable wat...
Lake Minneola Facilities
Food that can be purchased and easily packaged for trail use
Florahome Bikes on Palatka-to-Lake Butler State Trail
Information
- Clear signage on the trail with information about the town
- Directional signs leading from the trail into town
- Directional signage in the town with amenities information
- Informational pamphlets within central businesses
- Well informed business owners and citizens
Clear signage on the trail with information about the town
Clear signage on the trail with information about the town
Good Neighbor Trailhead
Directional signs leading from the trail into town
Directional signs leading from the trail into town
Cross Florida Greenway
Directional signage in the town with amenities information
Directional signage in the town with ameniti...
Pinellas Trail in Tarpon Springs
Informational pamphlets within central businesses
Informational pamphlets within central businesses
Withlacoochee State Trail Kiosk at Ridge Manor Trailhead
Well informed business owners and citizens
Downtown Dunedin
Conclusion and Goals
- Developing the Florida Trail Town Guidelines
- Developing definitions and explanations for each criteria
- Creating an application
- Forming criteria for multiple level/ranking designations (online)
- Designing a Trail Town sign and accompanying placard for qualifying towns
- Estimating the cost of signs and alternate methods for distributing multiple signs
- Contact already existing or potential Trail Towns to begin implementing and promoting the program
- Promote benefits of being a Trail Town
Florida Trail Towns Guidelines
Florida Trail Towns Guidelines
Promotion
Contact potential Trail Towns:
- Dunedin
- Tarpon Springs
- Winter Garden
- Palatka
- Armstrong
- White Springs
- St. Marks
- Inverness
Promotion
Possbile Partnership between The Florida Trail Association Gateway Communities and
The Florida Paddling Trails Association
Blueway Communities
and the Florida Bicycle Association
Florida Map of Exisitng Potential
Trail Towns ...
Florida Map of Exisitng Potential
Trail Towns to be contacted
Economic Impact from Trails
Downtown Dunedin's business occupancy rates:
- 1980's (before the trail): 30%
- Today (with the trail): 95%
Economic Impact from Trails
West Orange Trail effect on Winter Garden:
- Property values increased from
$22 million (1992 before trail) to
$69.39 million (2010 after trail)
West Orange Trail Impact on Winter Garden
West Orange Trail Impact on Winter Garden
References
Trail Towns - Capturing Trail-Based Tourism, A Guide For Communtiies in Pennsylvania
References
The Main Street Approach - Main Street America
Photos by:
Doug Alderson
Brian Ruscher
Lori Marable
Jai Subramanya
Delany Peshek
Kentucky Trail Towns - A How-to-Guide for Communities, Capturing Trail Based Tourism