The Gwinnett Countywide Trails Master Plan team undertook a multi-step process designed to identify priorities and create a plan that presents a trails network to reflect the community vision. The planning team examined previous planning efforts and worked with the Project Team to identify an initial catalog of possible trail projects that was further refined into a shortlist of trails projects. The Project Team included representation from various Gwinnett County departments, cities, and Community Improvement Districts.

Following community outreach, the planning team revised the shortlist of projects and conducted a detailed costing for a subset of trail segments as well as developed high-level planning costs for all the segments on the list. The network was then constrained based on the financial feasibility of the proposed trails. The finalized list of prioritized trails composes the Countywide Trails Master Plan.