TRAILS
Expertly designed trails that connect and enrich communities.
Continuing to connect communities through 100+ miles of trail design and construction.
Our trail specialists are part of a larger, multidisciplinary firm.
We assemble a team precisely tailored to the complexity of your project. Our engineers, landscape architects, and designers collaborate with our inhouse environmental scientists, surveyors, and land planners to devise innovative, cost-effective solutions. This multidisciplinary approach enhances our internal relationships and amplifies the value of our partnerships. With MSA, you have access to a diverse and formidable team of 450+ technical experts who serve clients nationally, ready to tackle your challenges and answer your questions.
We take great pride in creating healthier, more connected community assets that can be enjoyed now and by future generations.
OUR EXPERTISE
From rural recreational trails to urban commuter paths, our extensive portfolio of trail projects showcases our combined project expertise. MSA has a proven track record of designing award-winning trail facilities. We have designed and provided construction services for more than 100 miles of trails across the country, including regional water trail assets. By collaborating with state and local DNRs, preservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, forestry departments, trail clubs, recreational organizations, local tourism interests, and other primary stakeholders, we design trails that are functional, beautiful, accessible, and enjoyable. This experience, paired with our passion for the work we do, will help transform your vision into reality.
Services
• Alternate route analysis
• Bike/pedestrian planning
• Construction administration/ observation
• Engineering design
• Feasibility studies
• Funding & grant applications/ administration
Project types
• ATV/UTV trails
• Boardwalks
• Bridge/culvert crossings
• Funding
• Grant writing/administration
• Multiuse trails/paths
• Multimodal trails/paths
• Pedestrian bridges & elevated boardwalks
• GIS mapping
• Master planning & routing
• Permitting
• Project phasing & budgeting
• Public engagement
• Trail planning & management
• Riverwalks
• Rural trails
• Snowmobile trails
• Traffic calming at trail crossings
• Trailhead parking & restrooms
• Urban trails
• Water trails
WATER TRAIL
EXPERTISE IN FUNDING TYPES, INCLUDING:
• TAP Funding
• DNR Funding
• Local Funding
• State Funding
• Federal Funding
• SRTS Funding
• DNR Stewardship Grants
• CDBG Funding
Our passion, your trails.
As avid recreationalists, our designers channel their passion for trails and innovative solutions into each project they complete. Working and playing in the communities we serve makes each project personal.
Our design teams have logged thousands of miles walking, biking, and kayaking trails across the country. This firsthand experience as end-users lets us bring our passion and expertise to your project, creating pathways that connect.
MSA provides multifaceted funding services to help you turn the vision for your community into a reality. We turn every stone to help you fund your project. With our extensive experience in various funding sources, we understand the intricacies of these programs. We can help you bundle funding sources, manage timelines, and take care of the details to satisfy funding requirements. With MSA’s support, you can complete the projects you must, and deliver more of the projects you want, all while getting closer to the balanced, sustainable community you’ve always envisioned. We’ve helped our clients secure over $625+ million in grants and low-interest loans to help offset the cost of infrastructure projects.
Trails are increasingly providing communities with transportation alternatives. More people are biking and walking — not just for recreation — but as a means of transportation. With this increased demand comes a greater need for trail infrastructure.
OF TRAIL PROJECTS
• 1st Avenue Pedestrian Trail, Cascade, IA
• Allemansrӓtt Park Pedestrian Bridges, Lindstrӧm, MN
• Baraboo River Corridor Water Trail, Various Locations, WI*
• Bike Trail Expansion, Boulder Junction, WI
• Catfish Creek Trail Feasibility Study, Dubuque, IA
• Central, North & South Agonikak National Recreation Trail, Watersmeet, MI*
• Clara Avenue Multiuse Path, Lake Delton, WI
• County Road 14 Bike Trail Extension, Lindstrӧm, MN
• CSAH 25 Multiuse Trail, Lindstrӧm, MN
• Dayton Water Trail, Dayton, MN*
• Eau Claire River Bike/Pedestrian Crossing Planning Study, Schofield, WI
• Gitchi-Gami Multiuse Trail Superior Shores Segment, Two Harbors, MN
• Great Sauk Trail over Wisconsin River Bicycle/Pedestrian/ Snowmobile Bridge, Sauk City, WI*
• Ice Age State Trail - Red Cedar Underpass (Ice Age Alliance), Birchwood, MN*
* denotes a high-visibility project
• Kewash Nature Trail, Washington County, IA
• Land O’ Lakes Bike Trail Phase II, Land O’ Lakes, WI
• Magazine Drive Shared-Use Path, Ankeny, IA
• N. Bird Street Multiuse Path & RRFBs, Sun Prairie, WI
• Neillsville Improvement Corporation Trailhead & Neillsville to Granton Rails to Trail, Neillsville, WI
• Park Falls Master Plan – Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities, Park Falls, WI
• Pheasant Branch Creek Corridor Reconstruction Trail & Bridges, Middleton, WI* – ACEC State Finalist Award 2024
• Rice Creek West Regional Trail Underpass, Fridley, MN
• Riverwalk Trail, Elkader, IA
• Somerset STH 35 Multiuse Trail, Somerset, WI
• South Main Street Pedestrian Path, Fort Atkinson, WI
• STH 16 Trail & Bridge over La Crosse River, La Crosse County, WI (Onalaska & Village of West Salem, WI)*
• Trillium Lane Multiuse Trail, Rib Mountain, WI
• Walking Iron Trail, Dane County, WI*
SNAPSHOT