Title 79A, PUBLIC RECREATIONAL LANDS

Before any specific existing or proposed trail is considered for designation as a state recreational trail, a proposal must be submitted to the board showing the following: (1) For existing trails: (a) The route of such trail, including maps and illustrations, and the recommended…

Following designation of a state recreation trail, the recreation and conservation funding board may coordinate: (1) The agency or agencies that will acquire (where appropriate), develop and/or maintain the trail; (2) The most appropriate location for the trail; (3) Modes of trav…

The following seven categories of trails or areas are hereby established for purposes of this chapter: (1) Cross-state trails which connect scenic, historical, geological, geographical, or other significant features which are characteristic of the state; (2) Water-oriented trails…

All trails designated as state recreational trails will be constructed, maintained, and operated to provide for one or more of the following general types of use: Foot, foot powered bicycle, horse, motor vehicular or watercraft travel as appropriate to the terrain and location, o…

With the concurrence of any federal or state agency administering lands through which a state recreation trail may pass, and after consultation with local governments, private organizations and landowners which the board knows or believes to be concerned, the board may issue guid…

The board is authorized and encouraged to consult and to cooperate with any state, federal, or local governmental agency or body including special districts subject to the provisions of chapter 85.38 RCW, with private landowners, and with any privately owned utility having jurisd…

Volunteer organizations may assist public agencies, with the agency's approval, in the construction and maintenance of recreational trails in accordance with the guidelines issued by the board. In carrying out such volunteer activities the members of the organizations shall not b…

The department of transportation shall consider plans for trails along and across all new construction projects, improvement projects, and along or across any existing highways in the state system as deemed desirable by the board. [ 2007 c 241 s 71; 1984 c 7 s 368; 1971 ex.s. c 4…

Participants in conservation corps programs offered by a nonprofit organization affiliated with a national service organization established under the authority of the national and community service trust act of 1993, P.L. 103-82, are exempt from provisions related to rates of com…

(1) The department of natural resources and the department of fish and wildlife shall each undergo a public process to collect information related to electric-assisted bicycle use on nonmotorized natural surface trails and closed roads open to bicycles to determine where such use…

This chapter may be cited as the Washington State Recreation Trails System Act. [ 1970 ex.s. c 76 s 1. Formerly RCW 67.32.010.]