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Featured National Recreation Trails

A sampling of National Recreation Trails in the news or recently designated. The NRT program showcases the diversity of trails across America, from our cities and suburbs to the deserts, waterways, and high mountains.

 

National Recreation Trails... America's great trails!

Every kind of trail activity is represented in the listing of designated NRTs. Besides hiking and bicycling, the system includes water trails, motorized routes, snow tracks, greenways, and equestrian paths.

arrowSearch all of Tennessee's designated National Recreation Trails in the Online NRT Database

 

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Tennessee River Blueway runs through downtown Chattanooga

Keel Spring Nature Trail located 4 miles south of Dover, Tennessee. This trail is an example of ecosystem-based, multiple-use forest management: demonstrating water quality, wildlife habitat, visual quality, biodiversity, land productivity, and the protection of special significant sites. The Keel Spring Nature Trail serves as an outdoor classroom, low-impact recreational corridor and wildlife corridor (designated 2001).

 

Tennessee River Blueway: This 50-mile scenic water trail offers distinct sights and sounds of the area's diverse natural environment, culture, and history; and serves as a connector to Chattanooga's renowned greenways system (designated 2006).

 

 

 

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The on-line database has details on the currently designated National Recreation Trails. The NRT Program online is hosted by American Trails: www.AmericanTrails.org

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