Turning the clock back to 2012, when volunteering with CRAMBA I worked with my friend Kristi and developed the Ride Dirt Trails, Not Mud Trails signage. Originally hosted on the CRAMBA page (Internet Archive) this has fallen prey to link rot, so I’m re-posting / re-hosting it here.
Back when this was released we very intentionally made it available it under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license along with an Adobe In Design template so anyone else could reuse the work and help spread the message to avoid trails when they are wet enough to be damaged via use.
Since then I’ve seen some variant of this used all across the country, from SE Michigan’s more mult-user friendly Muddy Day? Don’t Play! take to just-logo-swapped signage in Arkansas and Missouri Ohio to the text reused on signs at Knoxville’s flagship Baker Creek Preserve.
I love seeing this reuse because the whole point of the open licensing was to make it so others could build on our work. And here we are, twelve years later, and it’s still going strong.
All files for this can be found here:
- CRAMBA_Ride_Dirt_Trails_Not_Mud_Trails_Poster.pdf: PNG format of the poster, as used by CRAMBA.
- TEMPLATE_Ride_Dirt_Trails_Not_Mud_Trails_Poster.zip: In Design template and supporting files.
- UNBRANDED_Ride_Dirt_Trails_Not_Mud_Trails_Poster_Text_as_Outlines.pdf: Poster, without logo, with all text as outlines. Likely the easiest for other groups to add their logo to.
- Spring_Thaw_Poster.pdf: A bit of a throwback, the MMBA‘s old Is Your Name Mud? poster which Ride Dirt Trails… was designed to replace.