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title: "Reviving Trails"
type: challenge
locale: en
url: https://liminalfutures.com/challenges/reviving-trails
date: "2025-04-01"
summary: "Reviving Trails was a 2024 action-research Challenge in Monti Prenestini (Lazio, Italy) that prototyped a participatory, platform-first method for mapping, narrating, and digitally disseminating hiking itineraries aimed at proximity tourism and safer, more informed use of historic paths."
---

# Reviving Trails

Type: challenge
Status: complete
Dates: 2024-08-26 – 2024-09-13
People: Ginevra D’Agostino; Gabriele Pizzi; Nicolás Delgado Alcega; Isabella Ferracci; Chiara Perini; Madeleine Reinhart; Tiandra Ray; Mistaya Smith
Organizations: Comune di Castel San Pietro Romano; Comune di Capranica Prenestina; Comune di Rocca di Cave; Ministero della Cultura; Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) Sezione Palestrina; GAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini; Museo Diffuso Castel San Pietro Romano; Liminal
Places: Castel San Pietro Romano; Capranica Prenestina; Rocca di Cave
Protocols: Trail documentation and publishing method
Commentaries: Reviving Trails: Participatory trail mapping for the promotion of proximity tourism

## Summary

Reviving Trails was a 2024 action-research Challenge in Monti Prenestini (Lazio, Italy) that prototyped a participatory, platform-first method for mapping, narrating, and digitally disseminating hiking itineraries aimed at proximity tourism and safer, more informed use of historic paths.

## Work

Reviving Trails was a 2024 action-research Challenge in Monti Prenestini (Lazio, Italy) that prototyped a participatory, platform-first method for mapping, narrating, and digitally disseminating hiking itineraries aimed at proximity tourism and safer, more informed use of historic paths. It ran from August 26 to September 13, 2024, with 6 days on the ground.

Across 7 hikes totaling 41.5 km, the team identified and documented 81 points of interest (POIs) and created 28 carefully curated trail profiles published on AllTrails, Komoot, Wikiloc, and Outdooractive. The workflow combined on-site GPX tracking, structured POI forms, photographic storytelling, and platform-specific editing to reach less-experienced hikers who typically plan trips through these apps.

Fieldwork was coordinated in advance with CAI Palestrina and ran in iterative plan–map–analyze–refine cycles with role-based field teams. The Challenge closed with feasibility studies for 15 future initiatives (including two articulated Business Model Canvases), showing how targeted digital promotion can bolster a local, sustainable tourism economy, while meeting its limits (weather windows, content homogeneity, platform update frictions) and the need to pair digital promotion with ongoing physical maintenance of trails.

## Sources

- zenodo: [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17094467](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17094467)

## Outputs

- Produced Trail documentation and publishing method
- Produced Reviving Trails: Participatory trail mapping for the promotion of proximity tourism

## Related

- Led by [Ginevra D’Agostino](/people/ginevra-dagostino)
- Led by [Gabriele Pizzi](/people/gabriele-pizzi)
- Participant [Nicolás Delgado Alcega](/people/nicolas-delgado-alcega)
- Participant [Isabella Ferracci](/people/isabella-ferracci)
- Participant [Chiara Perini](/people/chiara-perini)
- Participant [Madeleine Reinhart](/people/madeleine-reinhart)
- Participant [Tiandra Ray](/people/tiandra-ray)
- Participant [Mistaya Smith](/people/mistaya-smith)
- Authored by [Ginevra D’Agostino](/people/ginevra-dagostino)
- Authored by [Gabriele Pizzi](/people/gabriele-pizzi)
- Authored by [Nicolás Delgado Alcega](/people/nicolas-delgado-alcega)
- Financing partner [Comune di Castel San Pietro Romano](/organizations/comune-di-castel-san-pietro-romano)
- Financing partner [Comune di Capranica Prenestina](/organizations/comune-di-capranica-prenestina)
- Financing partner [Comune di Rocca di Cave](/organizations/comune-di-rocca-di-cave)
- Financing partner [Ministero della Cultura](/organizations/ministero-della-cultura)
- Operative partner [Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) Sezione Palestrina](/organizations/cai-palestrina)
- Operative partner [GAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini](/organizations/gal-castelli-romani-e-monti-prenestini)
- Engaged actor [Museo Diffuso Castel San Pietro Romano](/organizations/museo-diffuso-castel-san-pietro-romano)
- Authored by [Liminal](/organizations/liminal)
- Located in [Castel San Pietro Romano](/places/castel-san-pietro-romano)
- Located in [Capranica Prenestina](/places/capranica-prenestina)
- Located in [Rocca di Cave](/places/rocca-di-cave)