A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trailbuilding

In this webinar, leaders from The Vermont Mountain Bike Association, Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports, The Kelly Brush Foundation, and L&D Trailworks will walk through the latest guidance for planning, designing, building, and retrofitting adaptive mountain bike trails, with a specific focus on nonmotorized, natural-surface trails. The speakers represent the critical stakeholders that should be involved in any aMTB trail project—  trail manager, aMTB users, aMTB programs, and trail builder – and will collectively present critical principles and practices to follow when developing adaptive mountain bike trails.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the basics of aMTB equipment and users
• Become familiar the six major design principles for adaptive trails
• Identify unique requirements for adaptive trails to be safe and enjoyable
• Understand the distinction between adaptive-friendly and adaptive-optimized trails
• Learn how to avoid costly mistakes in aMTB trail building
• Understand the approach and rationale for modifying existing trails to accommodate adaptive equipment, and become familiar with specific trail-based adaptive upgrades
• Understand that making trails adaptive-friendly starts at the trailhead