The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is one of the most-visited parks in the National Park system. Last year, it had about the same number of visits as Yosemite, according to the National Park Service.
As well-loved and well-used as the park’s trails are, there’s not actually much intention behind the 65-mile trail system as a whole. Most of the trails predate the park itself.
Now, for the first time, the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is working on a big-picture plan for the trails in its 15 units that stretch from Lake Lanier to inside the Perimeter, in order to make the trails safer and easier to maintain, and to better protect the natural environments they wind through.
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