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American Trails.org - The World's Largest Online Trails Resource
American Trails is the only national, nonprofit organization working on behalf of all trail interests, including hiking, bicycling, mountain biking, horseback riding, water trails, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, trail motorcycling, ATVs, snowmobiling and four-wheeling. American Trails members want to create and protect America's network of interconnected trails.
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San Francisco Chronicle: "Real Estate Buzz - New Amenities Packages"
By Lew Sichelman - October 2008
{Excerpt} "Natural surface trails are the highest impact, lowest cost amenity a community developer can provide," said Martin, president of Trailscape in Costa Mesa (Orange County). Better yet, he reports, there's a "mass market" for them. "The market is huge and it's ripe. It's an amenity 80 percent of buyers say they want."
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BUILDERnews: "Natural Surface Trails - Now the most popular amenity"
By Randy Martin - April 2008
{Excerpt} "Research indicates 78 percent of homebuyers want walking and biking paths whereas only 22 percent want a golf course."
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Orange County Register: "Trails Top Survey on Home Amenities"
By Heather Ignatin - December 2006
{Excerpt} "All the villages being planned and developed now have trails that are part of them - either through them or adjacent to them," said Joe Davis, president of the Irvine Community Development Co., the Irvine Co.'s land-development arm. "It's one of the single biggest things that drives people to want to buy homes here. We can't get things built fast enough."