I just got done hiking a great trail through the Tillamook forest in Oregon. The trail was well kept and very long. Who makes trails like this? Does the park service contract out construction companies? How is it done? I assume most were made decades ago.
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For national forests and wilderness there are “trail crews” groups of seasonal employees who backpack out and build and maintain trails the whole season. If you went through a wilderness area, they built it all with hand tools, no chainsaws because those aren’t permitted in the wilderness, and if there were stone switchbacks, they carried and placed all that rock from the surrounding area–no help bringing it in. It’s a demanding and extremely rewarding job. I spent a few summers working on one, best job ever really.
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