Public Information and Participation

PUBLIC INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION

Planning and Recreational Trails Section

The statewide Planning Section develops long-range comprehensive plans that deal with statewide recreational, cultural, and land conservation issues and facilitates the public's involvement in those plans: Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP), Nonmotorized Trails Plan, Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Plan, Arizona Watercraft Survey, and Arizona Historic Preservation Plan.

Seeking Public Input on Arizona’s Trails NOW:
Arizona State Parks is currently updating the Arizona Trails: State Motorized and Nonmotorized Trails Plan. Take the online survey https://websurvey.asu.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=AZTRAILS and tell us about your trail activities and your preferences regarding trail priorities and management. The online survey closes September 15, 2008.

You are also invited to attend any of the following regional trail workshops to be held this Fall and give us more detailed information on your trail priorities.  These workshops will gather public input on both motorized and non-motorized trail issues.  FYI-Since this planning effort is for a statewide plan that sets state policy, we won’t be soliciting input on individual trails or on the federal travel management changes. 

The trail workshops will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.  Locations will be announced as soon as they are arranged. 

October 29:         Prescott
November 5:       Flagstaff
November 6:       Pinetop-Lakeside
November 17:     Lake Havasu
November 18:     Yuma
December 1:       Tucson
December 2:       Sierra Vista
December 10:     Phoenix 

Also Available: State Parks completed the “2008 Update” to the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP), which serves as Arizona’s outdoor recreation policy plan for the next five years. This SCORP update includes newly researched chapters on Arizona’s outdoor recreation situation, trends, and influences. Special sections include the benefits of parks and recreation, outdoor recreation and tourism, wildlife related recreation, and reports on trails, off-highway vehicles, boating, and historic preservation.

A large part of the 2008 SCORP Update features the results of a telephone survey of Arizona households and an online survey of Arizona’s parks and recreation providers and land managing agencies conducted in 2006 by Arizona State University. Also included are the current priority outdoor recreation issues for Arizona and the revised grant rating criteria to the Local, Regional and State Parks Heritage Fund and the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant programs

The 2008 SCORP is available for downloading as one document, or in incremental sections (below):

Full 2008 SCORP Report (12 MB PDF)

Executive Summary (680 KB PDF)
Chapters 1-2 (1.1 MB PDF) Acknowledgements, table of contents, introduction, plan process
Chapters 3-4 (3.7 MB PDF) Influences, recreation situation
Chapters 5-6 (2.5 MB PDF) Regional profiles, survey findings
Chapters 7-8 (1 MB PDF) Issues and grant criteria
References and Appendices (5 MB PDF)

If you're interested in information regarding park master planning and site planning for Arizona's State Parks, please contact (602) 542-4174.

If you're interested in recreational trails, please click on Trails Program or OHV Program.

Published Plans and Survey Reports:

2008 Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (11.9 MB PDF) In effect through December 2012; 274 pages

Arizona Historic Preservation Plan (2.6 MB PDF) In effect through March 2007; update is pending

2006 Arizona Watercraft Survey (1 MB PDF) In effect through June 2009; 129 pages

Arizona Trails 2005: State Motorized and Nonmotorized Trails Plan In effect through December 2009; 110 pages

You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe to view these documents. Available from their website, www.adobe.com

For more information on Statewide Planning, contact:

Arizona State Parks
1300 West Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
(602) 542-4174