Here is the metro area network of trails - see map below. The Sulphur Gulch Trail is the spur just below the line pointing to my house. Colorado is the "fittest" state in the country - and there is great citizen interest in these trails. The Sulphur Gulch Trail gets much more use than in my video - I took the video on a weekday cool morning. Literally, on most days, there are hundreds of joggers, bicyclers - most of them women - out there on all the various trails. I don't have the stats, but the few trails we have around here in asphalt seem to start to bulge and heave fairly soon after they are put down. The cement trails seem to last much longer, and, honestly, no one around here complains in the least about the joints - they just aren't a big deal. Colorado spends a lot of $$ on fitness facilities. My little town of Parker (now about 50,000) has miles of trails like these - and soft-surface trails, a full-blown rec center soon to doubled in size with the addition of another pool and other facilities, a huge field house with indoor hockey rinks, climbing wall, walking track, workout area, etc., a new top-of-the-line inline and skateboard rink, a marvelous cultural center/performance venue also with clasrroms, ballet studio, etc., two other performance/classrooms/venues, and also, several large private facilities. We have acres and acres of "Open Space" in the Town and county all over the place.

The major trail cement exception is the Highline Canal Trail, partially gravel "fines", partly asphalt, and partly cement - 66 miles long.