Grants

Recreational Trails Program Grants

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RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM

Recreational Trails Program (RTP) is a competitive grant program that offers funding for quality public trail projects throughout New Hampshire. Limited grants are available for motorized, non-motorized and diversified trails. Eligible projects include maintenance and restoration of existing trails, purchase and lease of trail construction and maintenance equipment, construction of new trails, development and rehabilitation of trailside and trailhead facilities and trail linkages. Applicants may be non-profit organizations, private groups, educational institutions, or government entities.

RTP funds come from the Federal Highway Trust Fund, and represent a portion of the motor fuel excise tax collected from nonhighway recreational fuel use: fuel used for off-highway recreation by snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, and off-highway light trucks. These funds are appropriated to the states by the Federal Highway Administration as authorized through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The program in New Hampshire is administered by the Bureau of Trails.

RTP application for Federal Fiscal Year 2023 is now available. Please download both the application pdf and Budget Detail excel file for submission. You do not need to include the Guidelines (which are attached to the beginning of the application) with your submission. Due Date is FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022 by 4:00 p.m. Attendance to at least one of the three RTP workshops is required to apply.

FFY-2023 RTP Application (Project A)
RTP Budget Detail

The Bureau will be holding 3 informational workshops about the program. Attendance to at least one of these workshops is mandatory to apply for RTP funds. The workshops will be held on/at the following dates, times and locations:

  • May 18, 2022, at 1:00 pm, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, NH 03301.
  • May 18, 2022, at 6:00 pm, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, NH 03301.
  • May 25, 2022, at 6:00 pm, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, 629 B Main St., Lancaster, NH 03584.

For more information – go to the NH Bureau of Trail’s website:   https://www.nhstateparks.org/about-us/trails-bureau/grants/recreational-trails-program’