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National Trails Offices

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National Park Service
National Trails
1100 Old Santa Fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87505

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National Park Service
National Trails
50 W. Broadway, Suite 950
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

National Trails Staff

	Superintendent Patrick Malone Deputy Superintendent Carole Wendler
Cultural Resource Specialists Jordan Jarrett	Visitor Use, Experience, and Engagement- Interpretation Paula Ogden-Muse Nicholas Roll Carol Clark Em Kessler Bryan Petrtyl	Design and Development Coreen Donnelly Faith Welty
GIS Specialists Brian Deaton Rachel Struhs	Historians Guy McClellan Nicholas Myers	Partnerships & Outreach Angélica Sánchez-Clark
American Indian Liaison Vacant	Administration Vacant	Planning Jill Jensen

A map of the United States, depicting ten trails that traverse across various states through the country, often over multiple states. — The NPS’s National Trails Office Regions 6, 7, and 8 (NTIR), with offices located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and both Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps administer ten NHTs, along with the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program.
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Ever since the pre-contact period, long-distance trails within the present-day United States have fostered exploration, migration, trade, warfare, and the exchange of ideas and other cultural elements. Americans have long been aware of the importance of these historic trails in the nation’s evolution and growth, and since the 1960s Congress has recognized the importance of preserving, interpreting, and developing a representative number of these trails.

Today, under the legislative umbrella of the National Trails System Act (NTSA), the United States boasts a diverse assemblage of nationally recognized trails located in all 50 states; these include not only 20 national historic trails (NHTs) but 11 national scenic trails (NSTs), approximately 1,300 national recreation trails (NRTs), and six connecting or side trails.

Of the 20 NHTs, 16 are administered solely by the National Park Service (NPS), while two others are jointly administered by the NPS and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In addition, one is administered solely by the BLM, and another is administered solely by the USDA Forest Service.

The NPS’s National Trails Office Regions 6, 7, and 8 (NTIR), with offices located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and both Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps administer ten NHTs, along with the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program.

Learn more about The Heritage of America's Trails, the administrative history of how agencies have administered these nine NHTs over the years, along with national context information pertaining to the administration of these trails.