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Concept, Feasibility and Master Planning

Ensure that the right trails are built in the right place, for the right reasons, with the right systems to support them

The Blue Sky Trails team provide expertise to assess the feasibility of your trail project and form the backbone of business cases.

This includes concept design and master planning assessment.

Unlocking the potential for amazing trail-based experiences is both a creative and a pragmatic process.

The success of your future recreational trails depends on their ability to meet user expectations while remaining sustainable for long-term management.

We have the experience and up-todate trail building knowledge combined with the business acumen to reveal the full potential of a location.

This means we can ensure the right trails are built in the right locations for the right reasons, and have effective management systems in place.

We are regularly asked to review existing master plans and provide expert independent analyses of projects in their concept, feasibility, and business case stages.

Our expertise complements tourism, economic, and environmental experts when undertaking business cases.

  • Funding models
  • Operation models
  • Management models
  • Risk assessments
  • Business Cases
  • Best practice reviews
  • BDAR responses
  • Cultural heritage responses

What We Do

Work collaboratively to define the vision for your trail network and what success looks like for the target users and ultimate trail experience

Establish critical parameters, constraints, opportunities, and risks associated with the trail network

Undertake due diligence assessments, desktop evaluations, and ground truthing to validate and refine trail alignments, designs, and specifications

Integrate accessibility elements into trail head facilities and planning and developing trail networks that cater for inclusive user experiences

Work with stakeholders, user groups, traditional owners, and interested parties to deliver holistic planning outcomes

Work alongside tourism, economic, environmental experts to create rigorous business cases

Identify funding models to support the ongoing maintenance and management of trails, including events and shuttle facilities

Capture, evaluate, report, and present evaluation outcomes to gain consensus on trail alignments, trail difficulty ratings, segmentation of trails, construction methodologies and budgets, and ongoing operation and maintenance requirements

Our up-to-date knowledge of trail development methods, specifications, and associated costs prevent you from having budgets fall short or time-lines extended.

The expertise within Blue Sky Trails ensures you achieve value for money outcomes for trail related plans and projects

Review trail concept plans, trail masterplans, and project cost estimates to confirm plans are realistic, sustainable, and meet your requirements

Testimonials

“Big thanks to you and your team for the high standard of work you have produced; it is exactly what we required to progress with the project”

Jessica Hammond, Conservation Management Planner Natural Areas Conservation City of Gold Coast

Why Blue Sky Trails?

Blue Sky Trails is your trail management business partner.

Our team is agile and adaptive, comfortably working into small upgrades or new destination networks. We are currently providing client side project management services for $11M worth of trail projects across Australia, including several multi-million dollar trail projects.

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Talk to our expert team at Blue Sky Trails today and take your trail care to the next level.

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