East Mountain Trails & Bikeways Master Plan - Bernalillo County

Section D. Envisioning the Future
East Mountain Trail System
By 2030, many of the goals and objectives of the
East Mountain Trails and Bikeways Master Plan
outlined above will have been achieved. Other
goals and objectives, such as the map of existing
trails, preserving rural quality and resolving user
conflicts, go beyond the scope of this project. In
most of these instances, important first steps
have been taken as a part of this project, but the
County and community will need to continue to
work toward fulfilling the promise of these goals
and objectives over the long term.
The Master Plan has provided the framework for
a vision of what the future Trails and Bikeways
system will be in 2030. By then, children from
older and newer neighborhoods will be walking
and biking on a variety of trails systems to
schools, community centers and a range of
recreation facilities from parks and recreation
centers to open space and National Forest
Lands. By 2030, a variety of users will have trails
and areas of use linked together seamlessly
across lands managed by a variety of agencies
and even private land owners. The system of
trails and bikeways will have become an
important amenity for the many in the greater
Albuquerque area, and quite possibly have
become a regional destination for recreation
enthusiasts. And yet in 2030, many of the
traditional routes that formed the interconnected
spine and circulation system among the early
inhabitants of the East Mountain Area will have
been preserved through the networks of soft
surface trails and rural roads envisioned by this
plan.
Ultimately, the promise of the East Mountain
Trails and Bikeways Plan is one of connection –
neighborhoods to public facilities and open space
areas, and future community to earlier
communities and the processes that gave shape
to an evolving place that the many residents of
the East Mountains area call home.
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