An Act to amend the National Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919), and for other purposes).
PL 94-527 (S.2112), enacted 10/17/1976

PUBLIC LAW 94-527—OCT. 17, 1976 
90 STAT. 2481 
Public Law 94-527 
94th Congress 
An Act 
To amend the National Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919), and for other purposes. 
Oct. 17, 1976 
[S. 2112] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the National National scenic 
Trails System Act (82 Stat. 919; 16 U.S.C. 1241 et seq.) is amended trails, 
as follows: 
In section 5(c), add the following new paragraphs; 
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C 1244. 
"(15) Bartram Trail, extending through the States of Georgia, 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, and Tennessee. 
"(16) Daniel Boone Trail, extending from the vicinity of States-
ville. North Carolina, to Fort Boonesborough State Park, Kentucky. 
"(17) Desert Trail, extending from the Canadian border through 
parts of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, and Ari-
zona, to the Mexican border. 
"(18) Dominguez-Escalante Trail, extending approximately two 
thousand miles along the route of the 1776 expedition led by Father 
Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Father Silvestre Velez de 
Escalante, originating in Santa Fe, New Mexico; proceeding north-
west along the San Juan, Dolores, Gunnison, and White Rivers in 
Colorado; thence westerly to Utah Lake; thence southward to Arizona 
and returning to Santa Fe. 
"(19) Florida Trail, extending north from Everglades National 
Park, including the Big Cypress Swamp, the Kissimme Prairie, the 
Withlacoochee State Forest, Ocala National Forest, Osceola National 
Forest, and Black Water River State Forest, said completed trail to 
be approximately one thousand three hundred miles long, of which 
over four hundred miles of trail have already been built. 
"(20) Indian Nations Trail, extending from the Red River in Okla-
homa approximately two hundred miles northward through the 
former Indian nations to the Oklahoma-Kansas boundary line. 
"(21) Nez Perce Trail extending from the vicinity of Wallowa 
Lake, Oregon, to Bear Paw Mountain, Montana. 
"(22) Pacific Northwest Trail, extending approximately one thou-
sand miles from the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, 
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Montana, to the Pacific Ocean beach of Olympic National Park, 
Washington, by way of— 
"(A) Flathead National Forest and Kootenai National Forest 
in the State of Montana; 
"(B) Kaniksu National Forest in the State of Idaho; and 
"(C) Colville National Forest, Okanogan National Forest, 
Pasayten Wilderness Area, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, 
North Cascades National Park, Mount Baker, the Skagit River, 
Deception Pass, Whidbey Island, Olympic National Forest, and 
Olympic National Park in the State of Washington." 
Approved October 17, 1976. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1683 accompanying H.R. 15122 (Coram, on Interior and 
Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-1143 (Coram, on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
Aug. 24, considered and passed Senate. 
Sept. 27, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 15122. 
Oct. 1, Senate concurred in House araendments.