I've always been frustrated by this. I realize that as a landscape architect there are aesthetic choices and perhaps for park lovers those shortcut trails can r

I've always been frustrated by this. I realize that as a landscape architect there are aesthetic choices and perhaps for park lovers those shortcut trails can ruin a scene; personally I think there's a certain, non-dismissible, beauty in those natural pathway formations. At the end of the day -- well, most days -- people just want to pass as fast as possible and I think it's insane to expect anything different. At the local park where I live they built small fences (about a foot tall) to guide people around the grass, and what they got instead was stomped down broken metal bars, effectively adding trash to the park.