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Public Law 94–527

To amend the National Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919), and for other purposes.

Approved October 17, 1976

Statutory text

An Act

To amend the National Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919), and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the National

National scenic trails.

Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919; 16 U.S.C. 1241 et seq.) is amended as follows:

In section 5(e), add the following new paragraphs;

16 USC 1244.

“(15)

Bartram Trail, extending through the States of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

“(16)

Daniel Boone Trail, extending from the vicinity of Statesville, North Carolina, to Fort Boonesborough State Park, Kentucky.

“(17)

Desert Trail, extending from the Canadian border through parts of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, and Arizona, to the Mexican border.

“(18)

Dominguez-Escalante Trail, extending approximately two thousand miles along the route of the 1776 expedition led by Father Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante, originating in Santa Fe, New Mexico; proceeding northwest along the San Juan, Dolores, Gunnison, and White Rivers in Colorado; thence westerly to Utah Lake; thence southward to Arizona and returning to Santa Fe.

“(19)

Florida Trail, extending north from Everglades National Park, including the Big Cypress Swamp, the Kissimme Prairie, the Withlacoochee State Forest, Ocala National Forest, Osceola National Forest, and Black Water River State Forest, said completed trail to be approximately one thousand three hundred miles long, of which over four hundred miles of trail have already been built.

“(20)

Indian Nations Trail, extending from the Red River in Oklahoma approximately two hundred miles northward through the former Indian nations to the Oklahoma-Kansas boundary line.

“(21)

Nez Perce Trail extending from the vicinity of Wallowa Lake, Oregon, to Bear Paw Mountain, Montana.

“(22)

Pacific Northwest Trail, extending approximately one thousand miles from the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, Montana, to the Pacific Ocean beach of Olympic National Park, Washington, by way of—

“(A)

Flathead National Forest and Kootenai National Forest in the State of Montana;

“(B)

Kaniksu National Forest in the State of Idaho; and

“(C)

Colville National Forest, Okanogan National Forest, Pasayten Wilderness Area, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, North Cascades National Park, Mount Baker, the Skagit River, Deception Pass, Whidbey Island, Olympic National Forest, and Olympic National Park in the State of Washington.”

Approved October 17, 1976.

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