Roads are for transportation: getting from one place to another. Trails are for inspiration: moving the spirit as well as the body. Roads take the shortest route between two points. Trails take the most interesting route.

John Morton knows the difference between roads and trails. Thetford Academy has the finest cross-country trail in the Northeast because John Morton thought about what trail users would see, feel, and experience as they came around each turn and crested each hill. John was eager to give users a trail that inspired, challenged, and moved them. John wanted this trail to transport its users in the spiritual sense, not the physical sense.

John and I built Thetford Academy's 5,000-meter trail as a community project. John provided not only a trail design that was moving, challenging, and intelligent, but he was indefatigable in his work on the trail's actual construction. John brought to the building of this trail the ideal skills: the sensibilities of an elite athlete and coach of elite athletes; the vision of an artist; and the practical construction skills and strong back of a Paul Bunyan!

Let John design a trail for you. Let your athletes and citizens have an experience on that trail that combines, in the nicest way, the physical, the practical, and—most importantly—the sublime.