- United States
Department of
Agriculture - Forest Service
- Technology &
Development
Program - 2300 Recreation
- April 2006
- 0623-2801-MTDC
Janet Zeller—Accessibility Program Manager, USDA
Forest Service
Ruth Doyle—Forest Landscape Architect, Santa Fe National Forest
Kathleen Snodgrass—Project Leader
This document is intended to help Forest Service personnel apply the Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines and Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines only apply within National Forest System boundaries. Both are based on the draft accessibility guidelines for outdoor developed areas created by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board).
When the Access Board finalizes its accessibility guidelines for outdoor developed areas, the Forest Service will revise the Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines and the Forest Service Trail Accessibility Guidelines to incorporate the Access Board’s standards, where those provisions are a higher standard, as supplemented by the Forest Service. The supplementation will ensure the agency’s application of equivalent or higher guidelines and universal design, as well as consistent use of agency terminology and processes.
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This document was produced in cooperation with the Recreational Trails Program of the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.
This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof.
The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Department of Transportation.
This report does not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. The United States Government does not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturer’s names appear herein only because they are considered essential to the object of this document.
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