While it may not feel like it, spring is officially here! As you’re getting your sites ready visitors this season, remember some key points when planning for trail signage. Enjoy this popular short read, originally published one year ago.

It’s ! As flowers bloom, wildlife reemerges, and becomes but a memory, nature centers and parks throughout the country are preparing for renewed foot traffic on their outdoor trails. Each warm weekend brings more people outside, and it is our nature centers that can offer the most rewarding spring adventures. What is one of the best ways to engage these visitors, hungry for both adventure and education? Simple but dynamic interpretive outdoor trail signs!

Does your park or nature center lack interpretive trail signage? Or do you have outdated, stale, boring signs that are due for an upgrade? No worries at all! With but small effort and without spending a lot of money, sites can create and install effective trail signs that satisfy even the most nature-hungry spring visitors!

Here are a number of helpful suggestions to help you plan your own outdoor trail signs!

Any questions? Always feel free to contact us – we have been blessed to create outdoor trail signs for parks and nature centers all throughout the country. And most importantly, have fun – with spring comes new opportunities to engage your visitors, excite their interests, and make them fall in love with your site all over again!

Interpretive trial sign at Fort Sheridan Nature Preserve

Visitors learn about the trail-side refurbished anti-aircraft gun at Fort Sheridan Nature Preserve in Highwood, IL; one of 40 interpretive trail signs.

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