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The bill establishes a long-distance recreational trail that expands access, tourism, and conservation benefits for rural communities while creating new local management costs, infrastructure pressures, and potential impacts on adjacent private landowners.
Residents and visitors — especially people in the rural communities along the route — gain a new nationally designated ~280-mile trail from the Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, increasing public access to outdoor recreation.
Local economies near the trail (small businesses, outfitters, lodging and restaurants) could see increased tourism spending from hikers and other outdoor recreationists.
Communities and conservation interests benefit from formal recognition that helps conserve and highlight the Bonneville bench's natural and historic features along the corridor.
Private landowners adjacent to the designated corridor could face increased access requests, reduced privacy, or other land‑use impacts.
Federal and local agencies (and potentially taxpayers) may incur new management, maintenance, or administrative costs to operate and steward the trail.
Nearby communities could experience localized wear on roads and trailheads, parking pressure, and higher demand on emergency and visitor services as visitor traffic increases.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds an approximately 280‑mile Bonneville Shoreline Trail (Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, UT) to the National Trails System without changing administration or acquisition authorities.
Adds the Bonneville Shoreline Trail as a new enumerated trail in the National Trails System, defining it as a network of existing and potential trail segments of about 280 miles running from the Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, Utah along the historic Bonneville bench. The change is limited to listing the trail in federal law and does not alter existing administrative or land‑acquisition authorities.
Introduced March 26, 2025 by John R. Curtis · Last progress March 26, 2025