The Buckeye Hills Regional Active Transportation Plan focuses on making it safer and easier for people to walk and bike for everyday trips and regional connections across southeastern Ohio. Within the Buckeye Hills region, people walk and bike to reach schools, jobs, services, parks, downtowns, and nearby communities, often traveling along roads that serve both local access and longer-distance travel. But many routes are incomplete, uncomfortable, or unsafe, especially where local streets meet higher-speed state routes.
Led by the Buckeye Hills Regional Council and Wood-Washington-Wirt (WWW) Interstate Planning Commission, this plan aligns local priorities with county, regional, and statewide active transportation efforts. Within the Buckeye Hills region, the WWW Interstate Planning Commission serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Belpre, Dunham, Fearing, Marietta, Muskingum, Newport, and Warren Townships in Washington County. Because travel patterns and destinations regularly cross county, regional, and state boundaries in the Mid-Ohio Valley, the plan recognizes the importance of coordination between Buckeye Hills Regional Council and WWW.
The Plan provides guidance for communities and partners working across jurisdictions to identify practical improvements that reflect how people move through the region. A companion online resource provides an overview of the plan, access to downloadable plan documents and appendices, and additional information supporting the data analysis and priority corridors identified through this effort.