Equity and Inclusion

FRI-A07: I Would Walk (or Bike) 500 Miles: San Francisco Bay Trail 2.0

Friday, September 18, 2026

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PT

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Speaker(s)

Ryan Booth, ASLA, PLA

Senior Associate Landscape Architect
Alta Planning + Design
University Park, Maryland
Liz Westbrook (she/her/hers)

Partner
Zander Westbrook Design
Berkeley, California
Kristen Lohse, ASLA (she/her/hers)

Senior Principal Urban Designer, Trails & Wayfinding
Toole Design
Seattle, Washington

Explore strategies to accelerate trail planning and design to build out a visionary 500‑mile regional trail; maintain and steward completed trail segments; provide communities with equitable, accessible public spaces; shift trail use culture from recreational to a transformative active‑transportation spine; and adapt to a changing climate and rising sea levels.

Learning Outcomes:

Examine all aspects of planning, designing, and stewarding a multi-jurisdictional trail to create a cohesive, equitable, and resilient experience across wide-ranging contexts from natural to urban.
Apply techniques for combining innovative data collection and regional-scale community engagement to create equity-focused projects that advance the full build-out of the Bay Trail.
Identify strategies for engaging trail champions with an array of agencies, stakeholders and communities by fostering a shared vision for expanding, enhancing, and sustaining an equitable, resilient, accessible trail system.
Evaluate ongoing efforts to assess, identify, and contextualize equity-driven access improvements, amenity needs, culturally significant assets, and maintenance recommendations for long-term trail success.