Cleveland Metroparks trails are built both by hand and with compact equipment. Metroparks trail crews work together, using physical labor, sustainable trailshaping principles, key equipment, and hands-on problem-solving skills to build and maintain a world-class trail system for visitors. Crews improve natural surface trails in all 18 Metroparks reservations, connecting people to nature and learning valuable skills along the way, based on principles of trailshaping.
See key trails accomplishments from 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Trailshaping is a framework for expert-level decision making - one that makes trail pros more effective, and that novices can quickly learn and use. It leads users to look for what matters most with any trail, for the factors that critically shape each trail within its own unique context. Using it, we can understand, explain, predict, and assess any existing or proposed trail.
Cleveland Metroparks is building a Conservation Corps to serve the state of Ohio. Learn more and let us know you're interested in the Corps byout to the Trails Division at [email protected]
Love your Cleveland Metroparks trails? Take our trails survey today to share your experiences and help shape our trails.
Volunteers play a key role in building, maintaining, and monitoring the Metroparks trail system. Here are three ways to get involved as a volunteer:
Support your Cleveland Metroparks trails
with a donation to the Trails Fund today.