Assess the available land to determine if the site or sites are feasible for trail development and how to do that can be overwhelming. Here are some of the best resources we have found useful.

Guidelines for Managing Mountain Bike Trail Development - IMBA.

Looking for funding?
Here are some links for handy tips resources to help you get started with funding:

Community Waikato Funding
Community Waikato Resources
Sport Waikato Directory of Funding

It helps when you have a great bunch of empowered people on the same journey. Here are some links to help you create some structure for your group.

Legislation Compliance Manual 2024 Sport NZ
Insight in a condensed from of what your responsibilities are as sporting entity

Incorporated society Act 2022 Governance
Wanting to create a constitution or set up a entity? Here are the templates to help you.
What you need to know before you register a charity guide

Sport NZ Facility Guide

Sport NZ Hub Guide An interactive guide of how to better create community facilities with some good case studies.

Templates & Policies to help your trail group track health & safety, compliance & risk management. Created by Herenga a Nuku with the collaboration from other trail groups and councils.

Resource Hub Template
These resources are a collaboration from Aktive Auckland and are detailed toolkits based on a variety of practical applications within the sport sector including how to fundraise, volunteer management, running events and other relevant tools.

Good Practice Guidelines (GPGs)are for organised outdoor activities that are not currently covered by the Adventure Activities Regulations or the associated Activity Safety Guidelines (ASGs).

WorkSafe Guidance for Managing Natural Hazards in Outdoor Activities - managing the risks from natural hazards. This advice helps align regulation changes and keep people safer in dynamic environments.

Building and maintaining trails resources.

MTB Trail Guidelines (2023) updated with adaptive trail development standards.

Adaptative Mountain Bike
(Adaptmtb NZ) Trail Design Basics
NZ’s own adaptive mtb trail grading system to support the quinique equiptment and abilities of adaptive mountain bikers (Feb 2025).

Least restrictive access guidelines (how and where to put a barrier)

Looking after Kauri how to protect Kauri when creating trails near Kauri. Best practice guides.
Kauri Protection Signage Guides (2024).

Trail Building Resource Guide
The IMBA guide lines for how to build and maintaintrails.

Adaptive Mountain Bike Standards Kootenay Adaptive’s mountain biking trail guidelines (IMBA Canada).

NZ Outdoors Accessibility Design Guidelines

Inclusive trail accessibility guidelines
Ensuring the whole journey of participation is considered - activity, infrastructure, amenities ( Feb 2025).

Recreation NZ Industry GuidelinesThis is theA-Z of industry standard and guidelines for New Zealand.

Telling your trail story? Heres a great design field guide to help you design your storytelling. Developed with Herengaanuku and Wildlab were stoaked to help make it happen.