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VAT No. 01877810687

Maintenance, design and construction of trails

Trails, physical connections that unite places by crossing nature and, metaphorically, history, knowledge, and traditions, represent one of the most important tools for environmentally respectful and economically sustainable tourism. Hiking routes revitalize mountain areas subject to depopulation and abandonment, generating interest, attention, and care, consequently raising the level of protection and safeguarding of natural environments; their maintenance, safe use, planning, and implementation within a broader and more participatory territorial context are fundamental aspects of a new "management" of our landscape and its great potential.

Our experience

The Environmental Hiking Guides of Sistema Natura offer local Public Administrations and the management bodies of Protected Natural Areas the possibility to take care of the maintenance, design, and creation of individual trails and trail networks, according to the standards and operational guidelines developed and standardized throughout Italy by the Italian Alpine Club. In this field, we have gained experience by participating in training sessions organized by the Maiella National Park; by coordinating, for several years, numerous groups of volunteers engaged in these specific activities; and by overseeing the monitoring and routine maintenance of the signage of the trails that are part of the official network of the Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise National Park Authority (for a total of 121 km), located in the Lazio Region. Since September 2021, we have also joined the "Adopt a Trail" project created by the Monti Simbruini Regional Natural Park, which aims to entrust the maintenance and care of the trail network of the Protected Area to local entrepreneurial and associative organizations.

Monitoring and maintenance

The activity of monitoring and maintaining existing trails is carried out through constant control and specific actions that include:

- periodic clearing of trails from encroaching vegetation and other small obstacles;

- checking the stability of the ground and the condition of the walking surface in relation to weather events;

- analysis of the condition of any structures (fences, small bridges, benches, rest areas, etc.);

- repainting of horizontal trail markers;

- correct positioning, stabilization, and repainting of vertical signage.

Design

The design and creation of hiking trails is mainly expressed not in the creation of new routes, but in the "rediscovery" of those itineraries that existed in ancient times, known for their environmental, hiking, and historical features, but currently abandoned or almost unused. Particular care will be taken with aspects related to safety, usability, respect for the natural environments crossed, integration with the existing trail networks in the area, and the dissemination of their existence.

VAT No. 01877810687