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Designating a ~280‑mile recreational trail would expand recreation, attract federal planning and conservation resources, and improve habitat coordination in central Utah, while creating modest federal costs and the potential for land‑use impacts on nearby private landowners.
Residents and visitors along the Idaho–Utah corridor gain access to a new ~280-mile recreational trail, expanding outdoor recreation and local leisure opportunities.
Local governments and rural communities can receive federal study and planning resources tied to the designation, supporting coordinated trail maintenance, conservation planning, and tourism investment.
Land along the proposed bench corridor may receive stronger protection and improved habitat connectivity through coordinated federal designation and management actions.
Private landowners near the trail corridor may face new land‑use planning requirements or access changes that impose costs or limit use of their property.
Federal agencies must conduct the required study, which will use federal funds and staff time and could divert Agriculture Department resources from other priorities.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Adds the Bonneville Shoreline Trail (about 280 miles, Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, UT) to the National Trails System and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct the required study.
Adds the Bonneville Shoreline Trail to the National Trails System by amending the statutory list of designated trails and requires the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct the study described in the National Trails System Act for that trail. The trail is defined as a system of existing and potential segments totaling about 280 miles from the Idaho–Utah border to Nephi, Utah, generally following the Bonneville bench. The change is narrowly focused: it formally places the Bonneville Shoreline Trail on the federal list of National Trails and triggers the study process under the law. It does not itself appropriate funds, change taxes, or create other federal programs beyond the study requirement and designation.
Official title: Amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.
Introduced March 26, 2025 by John R. Curtis · Last progress March 26, 2025