2.4.4.3. Management Actions

RR-48. Acquire legal public access to public lands for recreation uses through suitable easements, rights-of-way, or other methods.

RR-49. Develop a comprehensive trail system centered on the Black Canyon Trail. Identify, analyze, build, and designate new single-use and multi-use, hiking, equestrian, and OHV /vehicle routes for hikers, equestrians, mountain bicycles, ATVs, and four-wheel-drive enthusiasts, and linked to other trail systems and communities. Routes would include motorized and non-motorized Wickenburg-Lake Pleasant-Black Canyon City trail corridors and direct links with the Great Western Trail. Specific activities envisioned in this area include trail development for the following:

differentiated use (separate motorized and non-motorized travel routes),
single use (e.g. hiking or ATVs only),
multi use (vehicles, bicycles, hiking, and equestrian use on a single trail), and
single-track use (e.g. motorcycles or mountain bicycles only).

RR-50. Locate, analyze, build and designate single or multiple-use, motorized (OHV ) special recreation vehicle areas, loops, routes, and management strategies through interdisciplinary plans, with community and user input.

RR-51. Locate and develop parking, staging areas, and trailheads, as suitable, for the following purposes:

facilitating responsible use,
ensuring resource protection,
parking, and
unloading OHVs and horses.

RR-52. Limit to five acres per developed site of exposed barren soil. Mark or delineate the perimeters with barriers to prevent expansion.

RR-53. Prohibit motorized competitive races in the SRMA.

RR-54. Pursue legal public access through the Lake Pleasant Regional Park using existing routes to provide access to archaeological and historic sites allocated for public use, or to achieve other resource objectives.