Recreation and physical education

$33 Million Investment is Foundation’s Largest Investment in Community-Based Solutions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

This article explains how to design public spaces for physical activity and why doing so is important to community health.

Besides its economic benefits, trails can contribute to improved health. This fact sheet identifies the ways in which using trails for exercise can improve one's physical health.

This database includes smaple school district policies and information on physical activity.

The Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse provides technical assistance, information resources and referrals to trail and greenway advocates and developers across the nation.

This manual identifies the dilemma faced by public agencies and private organizations interested in acquiring abandoned or unused railroad corridors for conversion to trails or greenways and offers solutions. The book is based on the experiences of hundreds of rail-trail projects that have been successfully completed and is designed to help readers get to the negotiating table, and then, to successfully negotiate a winning deal for their community.

This federal government website lists outdoor recreation opportunities in all 50 states.

Rivers & Trails works in urban, rural, and suburban communities with the goal of helping communities achieve on-the-ground conservation successes for their projects. They work with community groups and local, State, and federal government agencies to conserve rivers, preserve open space, and develop trails and greenways.

Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.