Solutions: Sustainable paths, thoughtful designs

The oldest continuously maintained hiking trail in North America, New Hampshire’s Crawford Path, traverses the rugged Presidential Range toward Mount Washington.

So when it received a major upgrade for the White Mountain National Forest’s centennial celebration and the trail’s bicentennial in 2019, it took a Herculean effort. Three hundred trail crew members, 20-plus organizations and 11 trail squads worked on the 36-week project in the first year alone.

The maintenance project also provided an opportunity to promote a fledgling