Grand Canyon Greenway, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Awards > American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award, Planning and Analysis 2001, First Annual Harvey Bell Memorial Award for Outstanding Innovation in Trail Design, Western Trail Builders Association, 2001, National Accessibility Leadership Award, Department of the Interior,
2002.

Project Description > Greenways Incorporated has been serving as principal designer for the past eight years for the development of six phases of the Grand Canyon Greenway, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ. The first two phases are complete and located on the South Rim. Phases three, five and six are on the South Rim and phase four is on the North Rim. This project is part of an overall strategy to reduce automobile congestion within the national park and offer visitors a choice in how they visit and view this World Heritage Site.

Company founder and owner, Chuck Flink, originally served as one of ten volunteer professionals, representing
the nation's leaders in Greenway development, invited to work with the National Park Service and the Grand Canyon National Park Foundation to develop a plan of action for implementing the Greenway initiative. The Greenway is a project identified in the officially adopted General Management Plan (GMP) for Grand Canyon National Park.

The 72-mile Greenway system on the North and South Rim's will accommodate bicycle, pedestrian, and intermodal
travel, and will be constructed using both public and private funding sources. The greenway system will link the Park's hubs at Grand Canyon Village and Grand Canyon Lodge, with points of interest along both rim's. The project was dedicated in an April 1999 ceremony lead by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.