Art and artists enhance trails and greenways; programs and opportunities; examples of art, sculptures, memorials, and installations along trails; artistic benches, gazebos, signs and other facilities:

• Art and health: the "Medical Mile" along Little Rock's Arkansas River
• Art along the Mississippi River greenway system in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois, host for the 2006 National Trails Symposium
• Cedar View Trail bridge designs by Judy Bales, Fairfield, Iowa
• Trailside tree mural along Ozark Creek Greenway
• B&A Trail will host Planet Museum of solar system
• See more art along Anne Arundel County trails in Maryland (pdf 228kb)
• Hudson River School Art Trail maps the painting sites of 19th-century artist Thomas Cole and his contemporaries of the art movement now known as the Hudson River School
• Riverfront Trail Creative Interpretation: poetry and murals along the Mississippi in St. Louis
• Lowell, MA, creates a public art plan for the Concord River Greenway
• Visitors encounter art while wandering along paths at North Carolina Museum of Art: "projects that connect art and nature and expand perceptions of both."
• Art for Public Parks in Orlando, FL
• Artist and students turn the Fairfield, Iowa, Loop Trail Bridge into a work of art
• The Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis has a Public Art Master Plan for the corridor
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates project along 23 miles of trails in Central Park
• "River's Edge: Life In The Monongahela" is part of the 65-mile Upper Monongahela Water Trail.
• Art enhances western Colorado greenways

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