16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–22 — Roads and travel access

(a) Transportation plan. The overall management plan^* must include a full transportation plan for the area's federal land, covering how roads and trails are maintained, improved, or closed, and how people can travel through.

(b) Prohibition on off-road motorized travel. Motorized or mechanized vehicles on federal land in the area (1) cannot go off-road, and are (2) limited to the specific roads and trails the management plan designates for them. There are exceptions: this rule doesn't stop vehicle use the Secretary^* decides is (A) needed for running the area or responding to an emergency, or (B) appropriate for building or maintaining agricultural facilities, managing fish and wildlife, or doing ecological restoration — except this exception doesn't apply inside the Wilderness Area^* or land managed under section 1782(c) of title 43.

(c) Road closures. Any decision to permanently close an existing road, or to restrict which vehicles can use certain roads, must be made after consulting both the advisory council^* and the public.

(d) Prohibition on new construction. No new road or trail for motorized or mechanized vehicles can be built on the area's federal land, unless the Secretary decides it's necessary for public safety or to protect the environment — and that decision also requires consulting the advisory council and the public. This doesn't limit the Secretary's power to build or maintain trails meant for people not using motors or machines, like hikers or horseback riders.

(e) Access to nonfederally owned lands. The Secretary must give owners of non-federal land or land interests inside the Cooperative Management and Protection Area^* or the Wilderness Area reasonable access, so they can reasonably use their own land. And nothing in this subchapter cancels any valid right-of-way that already existed on the area's federal land.