Landmark Design completed the Emigration Canyon Trails Master Plan, a planning document which identifies a preferred trail system for Emigration Canyon. The Plan provides a framework for organizing trails and trail facilities in and through Emigration Canyon. The resulting trails system is intended to be logical and to provide good connectivity with the regional trail system beyond Emigration Canyon.

The Plan is intended to guide actions by canyon residents, trail users, property owners, governmental agencies, and decision makers regarding the location of trails in Emigration Canyon. The Plan documents and analyzes existing trail conditions, identifies significant trail issues, identifies a preferred trail system, and recommends principles and standards for trail and trail facilities development. A preliminary opinion of probable costs is included.

The Master Plan outlines the means for establishing a "first link" between the Bonneville Shoreline Trail and other Salt Lake County trails, and the wide-ranging regional trail systems to the east, including the Mormon Pioneer Trail, the Pony Express Route, and the Great Western Trail. This was considered an important first task toward the establishment of a more comprehensive system of linkages in the future.

The document illustrates the benefits of utilizing a long-term, well thought-out and highly-participatory public process as the primary means for reaching agreement on a divisive and controversial issue. It further illustrates the benefits of applying a planning approach that folds the desire for public access across public lands with the concerns of adjacent private property owners.

Adopted in March 2007, the Emigration Canyon Trails Master Plan is a supplement to the existing Emigration Canyon Township Recreational Trails Access Plan, which was adopted as part of the Emigration Canyon General Plan (1999).