CRO Planning & Design

We are a planning & design company focused in three core areas: Communities, Recreation, & Open Space. Our interdisciplinary team of planners, public engagement specialists, recreation experts, and landscape architects have extensive experience in every stage of parks, recreation, trails, and public lands project development—feasibility, analysis and assessment, master planning, conceptual and detailed design, permitting, construction, and operations & management. We help municipalities, counties, regions, state agencies, federal land managers, non-profits, and private sector clients navigate complex projects on public lands across North America. We believe in wholistic systems thinking and thrive in projects that embrace the linkages between recreation and community development, land conservation, and natural systems. We employ a comprehensive ‘landscape management approach’ in all our work to help ensure the best outcomes are achieved for both human recreators and all the other precious species, resources, and values present in our parks and public lands. We also recognize the often-deep connections between communities and their recreational assets, and don’t cut off our thinking at the park boundaries. We are equally adept at discussing tourism management and the downtown economics of outdoor recreation as we are discussing detailed trail design and recreation management out in the field. We are excited to help you with your next big parks, recreation, trails, or public lands project!