In the near future, I plan to reintroduce legislation to allow a municipality to designate any road within its boundaries, including state roads, as an ATV or snowmobile road.

Currently, the Vehicle Code allows municipalities to designate only local roads as ATV/snowmobile roads. With respect to state roads, PennDOT has the exclusive authority to make an ATV/snowmobile road designation. This is problematic as many roads in rural areas of the Commonwealth are state roads, which limits the ability of our local elected officials to create needed recreational routes for off-road vehicles that traverse state and local roads.

I believe our municipal officials are better suited to determine the needs of our local communities regarding ATV and snowmobile use, which is why my legislation would simply allow municipalities to designate any road within their physical boundaries as an ATV or snowmobile road, including state roads, provided that the road is not a limited access highway or a freeway.
Please consider cosponsoring this important legislation that will give local authorities the ability to determine the best use for their roadways.