Coast Trail by Hiking.org

Hiking.org project research site and talks about creating a web of coast trails

Intro to coastal trails

Why we need coastal trails, both to help us face sea level rise, to help our coastal communities and to support wildlife

Coastal cities

Explaining why our cities and communities along the sea can benefit a lot from being connected with trails

Climate change

Sea level rise, global warming and extreme weather creates special challenges to a coastal reality, trails can help us face them

Tourism and locals

Coastal tourism can be both a help and challenge - trails can make a difference... if done wright

Coastal biodiversity

Nature along our coastlines are challenged from many sides, from plastic, to pollution, to development

Rivers and streams

A special challenge to coastal communities and coast trails are waterways reaching the sea

Fishing and sea life

Coast trails often gives special options of tasting fresh caught local sea food. But fishing is a challenged world

Coast Trail design

Coastal trails are being created all over the world and there are lots of great examples of what to do... and not

Plastic waste

Here the focus is on plastic waste and what it means and how hiking trails can help us face the coastal problems of plastic