Trailshed is a trails consultancy. I help communities spot new trail corridors, plan and brand them into a connected network, and efficiently win the grants that help pay to build them.
- Those trails are decided at rare, easily missed moments: an easement, a subdivision, an annexation, a general plan update. Almost no one reads them as trail decisions.
- Trailshed keeps one standing watch across a region and lends each town its readiness the moment a trail’s future is set.
- It arrives listening, diagnoses the community’s real need, then hands local champions the strategy and the place-story that win the trail.
- It gives the cities, agencies, utilities, and funders who pay for this work progress they can point to, not another study on a shelf.
The standard is a regulating, nature-kind trail: a dirt path, trees, and real contact with nature, not a paved loop.
Proven now in Lodi, pro bono, on one principle: seed here, harvest next. Build the relationships, the method, and the case studies in Lodi that let the model scale to the next town.