Outdoor Recreation Quality Framework
Client: Roscommon County Council
The Challenge
To deliver a structured and comprehensive approach for assessing and improving the overall standard, management, and visitor experience of outdoor recreation sites in Roscommon.
This was a key action identified within the recently published Rosocommon Outdoor Recreation Strategy which identified that there is a disparity in the quality and provision between outdoor recreation sites in County Roscommon.
The Role
Through a process of desk research, benchmarking, fieldwork and stakeholder engagement, Outscape was required to prepare a criteria based framework to ensure a consistent and quality standard for outdoor recreation sites within the county.
In developing the framework, it was required to consider the following:
- visitor welcome/signage and promotion
- proposition on offer
- trail surface
- visitor services
- management and on-going maintenance
- appropriateness of existing infrastructure to its environment in respect of sustainability and biodiversity
- categorisation of existing trails/outdoor recreation facilities in respect of the CARA document: The Great Outdoors – A guide for accessibility