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Apart from the paved system, the city's soft-surface walking stands in three grounds at the record's strength. The Res — the city's nature-preserve ground on the river's east reach — holds the true dirt trails: woodland paths under canopy, the preserve's own network, the one place in the city where the walking is meant to be unpaved. George Wilson Park's woodland paths and disc-golf fairways make the second ground, soft surface by use rather than by designation. The riverbank paths off the paved course at Merrifield and Central parks — the informal shore paths the fishermen keep — make the third, at the size of an informality. Beyond those three, a park-by-park dirt-trail inventory with mileages does not exist in the record reached: the city's parks publications measure the paved course and do not inventory the soft trails park by park. The settling record is named: the city parks department's master-plan documents and trail inventories, in which a park-by-park accounting would stand if it has been made. The entry prints the three grounds whole and the inventory as the gap it is.