Assistance program
National Trails System Projects
$51.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 15.935
- What it does
- To preserve, protect, and develop the components of the National Trails System, with a strong emphasis on volunteer involvement, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into written cooperative agreements to operate, develop, and maintain any portion of such a trail either within or outside a federally administered area. The Secretary may provide financial assistance to encourage participation in the acquisition, protection, operation, development, or maintenance of such trails.
- Who benefits
- General public, and States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private organizations, or individuals.
- Who applies
- States or their political subdivisions, landowners, private organizations, or individuals.
- Authorized by
- 16 U.S.C. § 1246(h)(1) National Trails System Act
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$51.5M
100%
Other
$69.1K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments