Client Allegheny Land Trust (ALT) Goal Complete trail construction and maintenance outlined in a master trail plan created by Pashek Associates, a landscape architecture firm with extensive knowledge and experience in trail design. Work Completed Operating as the MWCDC’s Emerald Trail Corps, we were able to follow the master trail plan created by Pashek Associates...
Client South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association (SSNA) Goal Improve the quality and connectivity of South Side Park’s deteriorating and fragmented trails. Project Partners Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Student Conservation Association Mount Washington Community Development Corporation (MWCDC) Work Completed Operating as the MWCDC’s Emerald Trail Corps, we were approached by the SSNA in 2014 to fix their deteriorating and fragmented trail...
Client Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) Goal Extensively reroute trail approximately 3 miles from the trailhead within Bear Run State Park. Work Completed In 2013, the WPC approached the Emerald Trail Corps to reroute a trail in Bear Run State Park. During this project, eight crew members were housed in a cabin on Bear Run State...
Client Mount Washington Community Development Corporation (MWCDC) Goal Start implementing a 20 mile trail plan that was created by the MWCDC and Environmental Planning and Design, Ltd., a landscape architecture firm with extensive knowledge and experience in trail design, in 2010. Work Completed Emerald View Park is Pittsburgh’s newest regional park. It includes 257 acres...