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County updates non‑motorized master plan: Alta consultant onboard, public stakeholder meetings scheduled
Summary
County staff said the 2011 non‑motorized trails master plan is being updated with Alta as consultant, new GIS mapping of existing trails is complete, and a series of stakeholder meetings and a public survey are planned this month and next.
Staff leading Grand County’s non‑motorized trails master plan told the Trail Mix committee the county has engaged Alta as consultant to update the 2011 plan and has completed GIS mapping of all signed non‑motorized trails as the project’s starting condition.
The update will add a stronger active‑transportation component to the existing recreation focus, staff said. The consultant will model networks that connect residential, commercial and recreational destinations so people can walk or bike for short trips, and the county will separately work on recreational priorities and a new “wish list” of future trails.
County staff emphasized outreach sequencing: they are first contacting private landowners whose property was implicated in the 2011 plan before broad public outreach, then holding stakeholder meetings and publishing a public survey. The committee was given two confirmed events: an active‑transportation stakeholder meeting next Thursday the 19th at 2 p.m. at “the mark” (staff to circulate location details) and a recreation stakeholder meeting scheduled for July 8 at 10 a.m. at the Trail Mix meeting location. Staff said the county expects to run at least one evening meeting that week to reach residents who cannot attend daytime sessions.
Staff said the public survey will be released later this month and will remain open roughly a month; it will inform consultant analysis and help prioritize facilities such as downhill features, jumps or trail connections. County staff asked Trail Mix members and user‑group representatives to solicit ideas from their constituencies and to send proposed survey questions and priorities to staff ahead of a draft survey being circulated internally.
Why it matters: The master plan update will guide trail and active‑transportation priorities across Grand County for the coming years, helping target grant applications, identify maintenance needs and inform public access decisions.
What’s next: staff to finish private‑landowner outreach, circulate stakeholder meeting notices, publish the public survey and share a draft active‑transportation survey for review by committee representatives.
