The Interpretive Trails Book

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“Most trails are designed just to get the visitor from Point A to Point B. Interpretive trails are designed to help the visitor laugh, cry, smile, discover, understand and explore along the way.”

Interpretive trails - both outdoor and indoor - are used by museums, galleries, historic sites, parks, gardens and zoos worldwide. They can provide visitors with a unique immersion experience in viewing, discovering and experiencing the locations they’re visiting, and in helping them re-connect with a natural or cultural environment in a personal way.

Yet to be truly effective, there are proven and tested guidelines to follow about how to plan your trail’s story, its experience opportunities, and its delivery and physical design. This new book - based on 40 years’ interpretive planning experience - shares successful planning strategies and guidelines as tools to help you create amazing interpretive experiences.

For those involved in learning, engagement, interpretation, planning, consultancy, landscape architecture, and training - and those charged with developing interpretive trails who have no specific training in interpretive services themselves, The Interpretive Trails Book will become an indispensable and easy-to-follow resource to help create trails that engage, motivate and inspire your visitors.

The Interpretive Trails Book will provide you with the essential skills and understanding you'll need to create a successful trail. You'll discover:

  1. The four key questions to ask before even starting to plan a trail.
  2. How to use the eyes of an artist, explorer and storyteller to help speed trail planning.
  3. The seven concepts you need to understand to deliver effective recreational learning.
  4. Proven techniques to ensure clear, practical learning objectives for your trail.

Also available: Advanced Interpretive Planning | The Interpretive Training Handbook

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The Interpretive Trails Book

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This highly practical, 180-page book, with 75 colour illustrations, includes the following chapters:

TRAIL DESIGN
The Design of Interpretive Trails

Types of trails

The trail planning process

The Construction of Interpretive Trails

Trail surfaces

Trail grade standards

Trail furniture

TRAIL PLANNING
Visitor Motivations and Expectations

User psychology and recreational learning

Learning concepts

Learning principles

The visitor’s hierarchy of needs

Developing the Interpretive Trail Plan

The definition of interpretation 

The inventory of interpretive opportunities

Interpretive theme guidelines

Developing interpretive objectives

Trail carrying capacity

Developing interpretive trail guides

Self-guided trails

Audio and video interpretive trails

The Planning and Design of Media for Interpretive Trails

Planning interpretive panels

Remember the visitor!

Designing interpretive panels

Producing interpretive guides

Planning self-guided gallery tours

APPENDIXES

Interpretive Planning Forms

Interpretive Trail Guides

Selecting Media for Interpretive Signs

Interpretive Panel Planning and Design Worksheet and Checklist

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John Veverka is the internationally renowned author of Interpretive Master Planning, and one of the world’s leading experts on heritage interpretation. He is in demand as a consultant, teacher and speaker on interpretation throughout the world. John holds BSc and MSc degrees in Interpretive Services from Ohio State University and spent five years in the Interpretive Services PhD program at Michigan State University, teaching Introductory and Advanced Interpretation Courses.

His many clients have included the Eden Project, National Forest Service (Korea), National Museum Wales, National Park Service, Natural England, Norfolk Tourism, Nova Scotia Museums, Santa Fe de Antioquia (Columbia), Texas Historical Commission and the US Army Corps of Engineers. 

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Pages 180
Colour illustrations 75
Size 216 x 140 mm
Date 2015
Editions £25 [eBook] 

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We charge just £5 for worldwide shipping on all our printed books.

Digital Editions
Digital items are sent immediately and automatically via email with a link to download your purchase.

Taxes and customs
Please note that printed books which are shipped may incur import duty or taxes, which vary according to country, and which are payable by the receiver.

European & International orders

When ordering goods for delivery you may be subject to import duties and taxes which are levied once the goods reach the destination. Any such additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you. We have no control over import duties and taxes and cannot predict what they may be.

Description

“Most trails are designed just to get the visitor from Point A to Point B. Interpretive trails are designed to help the visitor laugh, cry, smile, discover, understand and explore along the way.”

Interpretive trails - both outdoor and indoor - are used by museums, galleries, historic sites, parks, gardens and zoos worldwide. They can provide visitors with a unique immersion experience in viewing, discovering and experiencing the locations they’re visiting, and in helping them re-connect with a natural or cultural environment in a personal way.

Yet to be truly effective, there are proven and tested guidelines to follow about how to plan your trail’s story, its experience opportunities, and its delivery and physical design. This new book - based on 40 years’ interpretive planning experience - shares successful planning strategies and guidelines as tools to help you create amazing interpretive experiences.

For those involved in learning, engagement, interpretation, planning, consultancy, landscape architecture, and training - and those charged with developing interpretive trails who have no specific training in interpretive services themselves, The Interpretive Trails Book will become an indispensable and easy-to-follow resource to help create trails that engage, motivate and inspire your visitors.

The Interpretive Trails Book will provide you with the essential skills and understanding you'll need to create a successful trail. You'll discover:

  1. The four key questions to ask before even starting to plan a trail.
  2. How to use the eyes of an artist, explorer and storyteller to help speed trail planning.
  3. The seven concepts you need to understand to deliver effective recreational learning.
  4. Proven techniques to ensure clear, practical learning objectives for your trail.

Also available: Advanced Interpretive Planning | The Interpretive Training Handbook

Contents list

This highly practical, 180-page book, with 75 colour illustrations, includes the following chapters:

TRAIL DESIGN
The Design of Interpretive Trails

Types of trails

The trail planning process

The Construction of Interpretive Trails

Trail surfaces

Trail grade standards

Trail furniture

TRAIL PLANNING
Visitor Motivations and Expectations

User psychology and recreational learning

Learning concepts

Learning principles

The visitor’s hierarchy of needs

Developing the Interpretive Trail Plan

The definition of interpretation 

The inventory of interpretive opportunities

Interpretive theme guidelines

Developing interpretive objectives

Trail carrying capacity

Developing interpretive trail guides

Self-guided trails

Audio and video interpretive trails

The Planning and Design of Media for Interpretive Trails

Planning interpretive panels

Remember the visitor!

Designing interpretive panels

Producing interpretive guides

Planning self-guided gallery tours

APPENDIXES

Interpretive Planning Forms

Interpretive Trail Guides

Selecting Media for Interpretive Signs

Interpretive Panel Planning and Design Worksheet and Checklist

Author

John Veverka is the internationally renowned author of Interpretive Master Planning, and one of the world’s leading experts on heritage interpretation. He is in demand as a consultant, teacher and speaker on interpretation throughout the world. John holds BSc and MSc degrees in Interpretive Services from Ohio State University and spent five years in the Interpretive Services PhD program at Michigan State University, teaching Introductory and Advanced Interpretation Courses.

His many clients have included the Eden Project, National Forest Service (Korea), National Museum Wales, National Park Service, Natural England, Norfolk Tourism, Nova Scotia Museums, Santa Fe de Antioquia (Columbia), Texas Historical Commission and the US Army Corps of Engineers. 

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Data

Pages 180
Colour illustrations 75
Size 216 x 140 mm
Date 2015
Editions £25 [eBook] 

Shipping Information

Photography Collection
We charge just £5 for worldwide shipping on all our printed books.

Digital Editions
Digital items are sent immediately and automatically via email with a link to download your purchase.

Taxes and customs
Please note that printed books which are shipped may incur import duty or taxes, which vary according to country, and which are payable by the receiver.

European & International orders

When ordering goods for delivery you may be subject to import duties and taxes which are levied once the goods reach the destination. Any such additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you. We have no control over import duties and taxes and cannot predict what they may be.

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