Blue Trails provide a host of benefits:
- Provide a variety of close-to-home recreational opportunities for you, your family, and your community
- Provide safe places to fish, boat, picnic, walk or bike
- Enhance the quality of life
- Preserve community character and offer people a new way to discover the special places where you live.
- Provide an enjoyable place for people of all ages to experience the great outdoors and learn about the natural world
- Create opportunity for attracting tourists and new businesses
- Serve as an important route for wildlife and protect stream corridors
- Strengthen a sense of connection to your river and hometown
- Strengthen community cohesion by bring people together to plan, build, and use the Blue Trail
- Promote greater appreciation and protection of your community’s natural, cultural, historic and recreational resources
