Solutions that put people first.

Public Lands and Recreation

Our nation’s most beautiful and beloved outdoor places are experiencing more visitors than ever before, putting unprecedented pressure on public lands and recreational facilities to protect natural resources, manage visitors, and maintain transportation systems—all in the face of limited funding opportunities.

We help parks agencies, destination and gateway communities, and mountain resorts adapt to growing demands for outdoor recreation. Taking a practical, implementation-focused approach, we create solutions that address the impacts on transportation systems, visitor experiences, and resident quality of life so that everyone can enjoy the great outdoors.

Our Expertise

We leverage data, engineering best practices, and a deep understanding of local needs. Our clients turn to us to:

Plan and Design for Park Access and Connectivity: Develop active transportation connections, parking facilities, roadways, shuttle programs, and public transit strategies.
Develop Comprehensive Plans: Create long-range, master, parking, transit, and multimodal transportation plans.
Conduct Analyses and Studies: Evaluate safety, traffic operations, multimodal access, transit/shuttle capacity and operations, visitor movement, equity, and environmental impacts to build understanding and develop implementable solutions.
Assess Visitor and Travel Demand: Understand future conditions and recommend transportation demand management (TDM) and congestion mitigation strategies.
Secure Funding: Support and prepare grant applications.
Improve Equity: Engage communities, improve equitable park access, and diversify visitor representation.

Why We’re Trusted

We’ve worked on hundreds of public lands and recreation projects since 1999. Some highlights include:

Providing Sweeping Support: We have created multimodal transportation plans, addressed parking and circulation challenges, and considered emerging mobility trends for parks, resorts, and gateway communities across British Columbia, Washington, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, and California.
Improving Operational Efficiency: Using big data sources to evaluate congestion travel time, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and key roadway metrics, our analysis helped the National Park Service improve visitor experience and operational efficiency of 13 national parks and monuments in Colorado during peak, off-peak, and shoulder seasons.
Enhancing Our Trails: We brought together a multidisciplinary team to plan and design a new trail alignment to fill a critical gap in the San Francisco Bay Trail network, accounting for various biological, right-of-way, safety, land use, and visitor experience constraints.
Managing Parking: By analyzing parking utilization and creating traffic models of key routes in Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and Shenandoah National Park, we recommended solutions to manage congestion, circulation, and over-capacity parking throughout the parks.