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Planning and Design for Your Outdoor Users

What sort of user will be on your trails, in your campgrounds, and visiting your parks 50 years from now? Whether your project delivers users to the downtown core or is tucked deep in the backcountry, our team brings a resilient vision to every piece of outdoor infrastructure.

Maintaining and Managing Your Outdoor Infrastructure

Our Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure services exist to assist you and your interested partners for the long haul. Bring your people together every season of the year in your recreational spaces, parks, resorts, and on your trails.

We Offer You

Tools for Decision Making

We help you assess the issues you’re facing and partner with you to solve them. From development and planning to design and administration, we can get you where you need to go.

Value

Our Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure team is composed of planners, trail specialists, engineers, and landscape architects. We bring multi-disciplinary team members to your project, along with a project management style that is time-tested and future-forward.

Planning

Assessments

Design

Tender & Construction

Construction Administration

Where We Shine

From New Brunswick to British Columbia, explore our portfolio to learn how we’ve helped clients like you plan for a future of life outside.
BRIDGES Blackshale Suspension Bridge

Suspension Bridges / Pedestrian Bridges

ENGAGEMENT Planning Upper Nicola May Engagement

Public Engagement

Learn more about our public engagement services here.

Project Spotlight

Peek behind the scenes of the Cypress Hills Inter-Provincial Park’s trail plan project. Discover more of the Cypress Hills story in our portfolio.
– Craig Marshall, Environmental Specialist with City of Medicine Hat

“The Medicine Hat Trails project provided a really good example of how to build sustainable trails in respect to the environment.”

Meet Our Outdoor Infrastructure Team

Planning

Mark Barsevskis

Mark Barsevskis, RPP, MCIP, Whistler

T: 604-424-4821
E: mbarsevskis@mcelhanney.com

Kristina Patterson

Kristina Patterson, RRP, MCIP, BLA, RLA, MBCSLA, Whistler

T: 604-967-2907
E: kjpatterson@mcelhanney.com

Trails

Magi Scallion

Magi Scallion, Outdoor Recreation Professional, Canmore

T: 403-621-1449
E: mscallion@mcelhanney.com

Matt Hadley

Matt Hadley, Trails Designer & Division Manager, Canmore

T: 403-707-8928
E: mhadley@mcelhanney.com

Tyler Wilkes

Tyler Wilkes, Trail Specialist, Terrace

T: 250-641-1370
E: twilkes@mcelhanney.com

Engineering

Brian Bain_Cropped

Brian Bain, PEng, Canmore

T: 403-493-5114
E: bbain@mcelhanney.com

John Johnson

John Johnson, PEng, Calgary

T: 306-715-0613
E: jjohnson@mcelhanney.com

Landscape Architecture

Stan Siemens

Stan Siemens, BLA, CSLA, Calgary

T: 403-830-9556
E: ssiemens@mcelhanney.com

DavidBrown_Cropped

David Brown, BLA, AALA, FCSLA, Edmonton

T: 780-916-4118
E: dbrown@mcelhanney.com

Get in Touch With Our ORI Team