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BESSEY ARCHERY RANGE
Trail alignment masterplan
Range Wayfinding
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The Bessey Archery Range is a .47 mile loop trail that incorporates 25 archery targets at a variety of ranges to provide bow shooters with a unique and versatile shooting experience. The targets are situated at a variety of ranges and there are three different types of shots, which are categorized by their difficulty in the matrix shown below. The range also incorporates a shooting tower to provide archers with an opportunity for elevated shots.
Slope Conditions
The slope of the land can exceed 20% and requires switchbacks that move back and fourth across the steep grade in some locations to maintain FSTAG guidelines.
Boardwalk Accessibility
The shooting deck can maintain accessible ramp slopes by beginning the ramps at higher points along the hill, and stay at a lower incline as the ground slopes down.
Trail Material
This trail proposes the approach of stabilized engineered wood fiber (SEWF), which creates a firm and stable surface while maintaining a natural feeling.
Bench trails are cut flat from the existing grade to create a flat trail. The backslope must match the existing slope as close as possible.
Cross slope of the trail does not exceed 5%, and maintains an average of 2% to maintain accessibility.
Steep slopes require switchbacks in some areas, using these maintains an accessible slope of 8.33% along the steepest slopes.
Multiple ramps provide access to all stories of the shooting tower.
Small cutouts are made in the railing of the backside of the shooting tower to allow for shorter shooters use the tower.
Access ramps maintain an 8.33% slope or less in order to accommodate wheelchair accessibility.
Stabilized engineered wood fiber (SEWF) provides required firmness and maintains a natural aesthetic.
Required construction of trail surface is: 2” thick SEWF with binder, a geotextile fabric layer, 2” thick gravel, a geotextile fabric layer, subgrade.
Average trail width of 6’ allows for two way traffic, trail never becomes skinnier than 3’.
