Huts for regional trails

How do we get more recreation out of the three major Bay Area all-access hiking and boating trails when they are built primarily with conservation and day-use in mind? Considering each trail is hundreds of miles long, trip planning and overnight accommodation for individuals and groups is a must. The challenge of making each trail a reality is daunting enough without making easily usable one to another and anticipate overnight needs. These aspects of interconnected recreational use deserve special study with a view to providing a framework for finding existing locations or designing new buildings for entrepreneurial visitor-serving solutions. The two big questions are what has been done elsewhere and what are the opportunities here?

Reasonable steps for accomplishing this might be one, create a report primarily directed toward the sponsors of each trail, but also valuable for entrepreneurs such as established concessionaires, bed and breakfasts, harbors and trail non-profits and two, encourage appropriate action on the study by each sponsoring organization by going directly to a program that pays for itself, a subsidized program or simply studying the opportunities with increasing focus.

The initial study would start by evaluating recreational opportunities worldwide on various kinds of trails to set up a framework. Then it would look at local opportunities, survey users, dynamically map the trails as a single system, identify coordinated points of contact, ownership issues, and where amenities such as parking lot information stations, refreshment stands and overnight accommodations can be located. Findings would then be drafted and submitted for review, and then a final report would be presented in public.