The Cultural Landscape Zone addresses the overall setting in which is found not only historic structures, but also non-structural evidence of the traditions, beliefs, practices, lifestyles, arts, crafts and social institutions of any community. For example, a location associated with a particular culture, such as a Native American sacred burial ground or an abandoned mine town site, representative of a bygone era, would qualify as a Cultural Landscape Zone. This zone can be a subset of one of the other resource zones and, as such, the guidance for that zone will also apply.

1.   Natural Resources:

• Natural resources that have been identified as important to the cultural landscape are managed to perpetuate those qualities. This can include timber harvest (short term) and other management tools.

2.  Historic/Cultural Resources:

• Includes historic buildings, structures, and other landscape characteristics and features which represent the evolution of the cultural resource, temporal change, and the continuum of time.
• Cultural resources preserved or rehabilitated for visitor understanding and/or for compatible adaptive use by DNR or partners.
• Historic structures could be adaptively used for operational uses or educational purposes.

3.  Recreation Opportunities:

• Visitors engaged in sightseeing, recreational, and educational activities in a cultural setting such as automobile, bicycle, walking, hiking tours compatible with and sensitive to the setting.

4.  Education Opportunities:

• Interpretive signage at trail heads, on the trail, overlooks and other points of interest.
• Off-site interpretation as well.

5.  Visitor Experience:

• Moderate visitor encounters are accommodated.
• Visitors engaged in sightseeing, recreational, and educational activities in a cultural setting such as automobile, bicycle, walking and hiking tours.
• Moderate time commitment.
• Moderate on-site interpretation.
• Moderate off-site interpretation.
• Moderate noise tolerance.
• Moderate interaction with DNR staff.

6.  Management Focus:

• Maintain cultural character of the zone and, if a sub-set of a resource zone, maintain emphasis on natural resource quality.
• Keep development consistent with the zone.

7.  Development:

• Non-historic development and activities that do not conflict with the cultural landscape are tolerated.
• Moderate level of development to support visitor access and use such as interpretive media, walkways, trails, small picnic areas and restrooms.
• Development compatible with the cultural landscape.
• Moderate accessibility.