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With the popularity of walking, different branches of the government and local governments have been making a lot of paths for walking including trails, promenades and so on. It is believed to have negative impacts on their surrounding nature and the environment because of excessive exploitation and environmentally-unfriendly path-making procedure. Therefore scientific and systematic construction methods for walking paths are considered crucial for eco-friendly walking paths so that they have the least impact on the environment from the planning of walking paths to the maintenance of them. However, there have been no regulations or environmental assessments on the trail-makings only except a few declaratory guidelines. It has been said that ill-made trails have been causing environmental damages to the ecosystem and the environment of the surrounding areas. To tackle those problems, the followings are suggested that these three regulations – ① Evaluation, ② Certification, ③ Feasibility study - should be introduced to the trail-making projects in Korea. These regulatory policies will contribute to the ecologically-friendly making and maintenance of walking trails.