30 Iconic Trex Projects Around the World

Trex may be best known for backyard decks, but over the years, its products have made their way to places most people might never expect to find them. From national memorials and urban parks to wildlife hospitals, luxury hospitality spaces, and some of the world’s most dramatic coastlines, these projects span an extraordinary range of settings around the globe.

These projects stand out for Trex’s role in each one. In some cases, Trex products were carefully selected for their durability to handle heavy traffic or difficult weather. In others, design was at the forefront, with color, shape, and finish defining the character of the space.

Together, these projects exemplify the range of what’s possible when outdoor materials are treated as more than a finishing afterthought. They invite us to imagine outdoor spaces with more ambition, and to see familiar materials as a means to transform how someone experiences a place.

1. EchoPark Speedway in Hampton, GA

At EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway), the best seat in the house may not be a seat at all. As one of the Southeast’s best-known motorsports venues, this speedway has hosted NASCAR racing since 1960, evolving over the decades to offer spectators more ways to experience the excitement of race day.

Among those spaces is a 90-foot VIP hospitality terrace built with Trex Transcend® decking and railing. Rather than confining guests to traditional grandstand seating, the terrace provides a more open setting with room to gather, socialize, and move around while taking in the speed and roar of the cars as they circle the track.

2. Green Builder Mariposa Meadows VISION House in Telluride, CO

Mariposa Meadows is a remote research, education, and retreat compound created by Green Builder Media to explore how sustainable design can perform in an extreme mountain environment. The property is located in Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest and surrounded by aspen forest that can be difficult to access during parts of the year.

Building an outdoor living space at this elevation means preparing for conditions most decks will never encounter, from intense ultraviolet exposure to deep snow and sudden changes in weather. Just as important as its ability to weather the elements is how little ongoing upkeep it would require in a place where routine maintenance is anything but routine.

Today, an expansive Trex deck forms the compound’s central gathering space, complemented by Trex railing, fascia, furniture, and a pergola. Visitors can gather and take in the mountain landscape (without the deck demanding constant attention of its own).

3. Atlantic Beach Boardwalk in Long Island, NY

When Hurricane Sandy damaged Atlantic Beach’s boardwalk in 2012, the Long Island Village lost one of its main connections to the coast. Rebuilding it became an important part of the community’s recovery.

As part of the reconstruction, crews installed more than 3,300 square feet of Trex Accents® decking in Winchester Grey. The muted finish retained the familiar look of a weathered seaside boardwalk while replacing storm-damaged wood with a material better suited to constant moisture, salt air, and pedestrian traffic.

4. Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in Clarke County, VA

At Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, Trex played a large role in the rehabilitation process for animals preparing to return to the wild. This wildlife hospital cares for injured, sick, and orphaned native animals in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, with many recovering in outdoor enclosures before they can safely be released.

Prior to the restoration, the center’s older wooden structures deteriorated quickly and required frequent repairs, while storms eventually destroyed several enclosures altogether. Trex, headquartered nearby, donated composite material to help rebuild the temporary wildlife housing.

The material became part of secure, easy-to-clean recovery spaces exposed to spilled food, water, and repeated sanitation between patients. With less deteriorating wood to repair, the center’s staff and volunteers can devote more time to caring for the animals, while giving them secure outdoor space to rebuild their strength and relearn the behaviors they will need to survive in the wild.

5. Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC

Few football fans get to watch a game from field level. At Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, Trex decking helps create VIP seating areas that put guests just yards from the action.

The home stadium of the Carolina Panthers accommodates more than 75,000 spectators, and its field-level premium areas replace the distant view from the grandstands with a more intimate vantage point, while giving guests room to circulate and mingle.

The decking gives the spaces the feel of an outdoor terrace or hospitality lounge, softening the surrounding concrete and steel and helping distinguish the experience from a standard stadium seat.

6. Architectural Digest AD Oasis at The Raleigh Hotel in Miami, FL

In 2011, Architectural Digest transformed The Raleigh Hotel into the AD Oasis, an invitation-only retreat for artists, designers, and collectors attending the many events surrounding Miami Art Week. The space operated as a café, gallery, spa, and lounge during the day before becoming a nightlife hotspot after dark.

Designer Mark Cunningham used 3,800 square feet of Trex Transcend decking to create a modular pathway through the Oasis. The decking connected the Oasis’s different spaces and helped turn the hotel grounds into a destination visitors could move through seamlessly.

7. Norfolk Botanical Garden in Norfolk, VA

Trex decking appears at several points throughout Norfolk Botanical Garden’s Garden of Tomorrow expansion, helping connect visitors with the landscape from the moment they arrive. Trex donated material for the new front entry bridge, the 22-foot-high Kay and Al Abiouness Skywalk, and a shoreline restoration boardwalk expected to open in late 2026.

High above, the Skywalk carries visitors from the new conservatory to a viewing platform overlooking the garden’s rose collection. On the ground, the entry bridge and shoreline boardwalk bring the same material closer to the water, extending the project’s focus on conservation and sustainability throughout the visitor experience.

8. Race Street Pier in Philadelphia, PA

Beneath the massive Benjamin Franklin Bridge, a former shipping pier has become one of Philadelphia’s most distinctive waterfront parks. Race Street Pier opened in 2011 as an early part of the city’s effort to reconnect residents with the Delaware River. Across its 43,200 square feet, lawns, pathways, and terraces step down toward the water while preserving views of the bridge and skyline.

Trex Accents decking was used on the upper-level Sky Promenade and on the seating terrace that links the park’s two elevations. Together, these spaces create an urban overlook where visitors can walk, gather, exercise, or sit beside the river.

9. Anzac Memorial Centre Convoy Lookout in Mount Clarence, Australia

Few overlooks carry as much historical weight as the view from Mount Clarence across King George Sound. In late 1914, Australian and New Zealand troop ships gathered in the sound before departing for the First World War, making Albany an important starting point in the Anzac story. 

Today, visitors follow the Convoy Walk to a lookout where they can survey the same harbor and imagine the fleet assembled below. The platform incorporates 220 square meters of Trex Transcend decking in Tiki Torch; its warm, timber-like appearance allows the structure to sit quietly within the coastal landscape without competing with the panoramic view.

10. The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ SuperPuesto in Bronx, NY

Artist Terence Gower designed SuperPuesto for the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2014 by drawing on the familiar form of a Latin American street-market stall. The result was a striking open-air pavilion that was part sculpture and part gathering place. Because the installation was large enough for visitors to enter and occupy, SuperPuesto uniquely allowed visitors to experience it from within rather than simply observe it across a gallery.

Approximately 1,000 square feet of Trex Transcend decking in Island Mist gave the structure its silvery-grey surface.

11. Guitar Deck in Uniontown, OH

From above, this Ohio deck looks less like part of a house and more like a giant Fender Stratocaster. A music-loving homeowner commissioned architect John Patrick Picard to design the distinctive outdoor space, which TrexPro® builder Andy Henley of Hen-House Decks then had to turn into a structurally sound elevated deck.

Cantilevered joists form the guitar’s curves, while extensive custom blocking supports the detailed inlaid design. Four Trex Transcend decking colors (Vintage Lantern, Rope Swing, Tree House and Gravel Path) were combined to distinguish the body, neck, pickups and other recognizable features.

12. HGTV® Dream Home 2020 in Hilton Head Island, SC

For HGTV’s 2020 Dream Home, the surrounding landscape was a huge part of both the appeal and the creative brief. The goal was to design a home that felt unmistakably at home on Hilton Head Island, with the relaxed character of the Lowcountry carried through the architecture and out toward the marsh.

Designer Brian Patrick Flynn built that feeling into several outdoor spaces, including the front entry, screened porch, and elevated rear deck. Trex® Enhance® decking in Coastal Bluff brought in a softly weathered tone, while white Transcend® railing and dark balusters gave the home a crisp coastal finish. Because the materials appeared throughout the property, the outdoor spaces felt seamlessly connected rather than hodgepodged together.

The build was introduced to a national audience through HGTV Dream Home, the network’s annual showcase in which one fully designed home becomes both a source of inspiration and the centerpiece of a nationwide sweepstakes.

13. REI Signature Camp Near Bryce Canyon, UT

REI’s Signature Camp near Bryce Canyon was designed to make the outdoors feel immersive without requiring guests to sacrifice the comforts they’re used to. It’s a guided and more polished form of camping amid southern Utah’s dramatic desert landscape.

For the site’s expansion, REI worked with Trex to construct 10 elevated platforms for furnished tents. The platforms keep tents and guests above the ground while providing a stable outdoor space to enjoy the surroundings. The team selected Trex Transcend® Lineage® decking to complement the landscape’s warm tones and reduce surface heat under the scorching Utah sun.

The project also completed a recycling loop: plastic film collected through REI was diverted for use in manufacturing Trex decking, which was then used to build the platforms.

14. Belmar Boardwalk in Belmar, NJ

For Belmar, the boardwalk is part of the town’s front door. It runs for 1.3 miles along the ocean, drawing residents and summer visitors to the same stretch of shoreline year after year.

When Hurricane Sandy destroyed the boardwalk in 2012, the town was forced to rebuild one of its most familiar public spaces from the ground up. The replacement used Trex Transcend decking in Spiced Rum and Lava Rock, with the two colors arranged in a picture-frame pattern that gave the long expanse more visual definition.

This project restored a major piece of Belmar’s waterfront, bringing back a public space that helps anchor the town’s summer economy and its connection to the shore.

15. Jumeirah Corniche Boardwalk in Dubai, UAE

The Jumeirah Corniche gives Dubai residents a new way to experience a long stretch of the city’s coastline. Running for approximately 8.5 miles along the Arabian Gulf, the project turned the beachfront into a continuous public route for recreation by the water.

More than 27,000 square meters of Trex Transcend decking were used across the five-meter-wide boardwalk, making it one of the company’s largest single public installations. Today, the route incorporates a dedicated jogging track, shaded seating, and rest areas along the beach.

16. Monkey Mia Boardwalk Near Perth, Australia

Located within the Shark Bay World Heritage region on Western Australia’s remote coast, Monkey Mia draws more than 120,000 visitors each year who hope to have an encounter with the wild dolphins that regularly approach its shoreline. The boardwalk is a key part of that experience, carrying visitors from the center toward the water without disturbing the surrounding landscape.

But after 15 years, the original wood structure had begun to splinter and deteriorate. It was replaced with more than 350 square meters of Trex Contours® decking in Pebble Grey, a soft tone that sits naturally against the pale shoreline.

17. Zoo Knoxville in Knoxville, TN

Zoo Knoxville’s new Timber Loop gives visitors a quieter way to experience the zoo. The boardwalk winds through six wooded acres, with spots to pause along the route and enough flexibility to host outdoor programs, gatherings, and even summer concerts beneath the trees.

Builder Jenkins & Stiles used three truckloads of Trex in Coastal Bluff to complete the project. The softly weathered color fits naturally into the wooded setting, while the decking creates a continuous path through terrain that might otherwise be difficult to navigate. 

18. Mondavi Deck and Dock in Beaufort, SC

For Rob and Lydia Mondavi, outdoor living in South Carolina extends all the way to the water. Their Lowcountry home combines a large Trex deck with a dock overlooking the surrounding marsh, creating a natural place for quiet mornings with the family and the occasional glass of Chardonnay at sunset.

The real story, however, is how the space has aged. A decade after installation, Rob Mondavi reported that the deck and dock had made it through six hurricanes without needing a single Trex board replaced.

19. Basically Nomads’ Rooftop Bus Deck

When your entire home is a converted school bus, the roof becomes valuable living space. Devin and Breanna O’Dell document their off-grid travels as Basically Nomads, living in a self-built bus converted into an off-grid mobile home. With only about 300 square feet inside, their rooftop deck effectively provides another living area where they can enjoy the changing landscape around them.

After about three years on the road, however, the original pressure-treated wood had begun peeling, warping, and pulling away from its metal supports. The couple decided to rebuild the deck using Trex Transcend Lineage decking in color Rainier, knowing that this material could easily withstand highway winds, intense sun, freezing temperatures, and storms across the United States and Mexico.

20. Everglades National Park in Homestead, FL

Trex has been used in the Everglades region for more than 25 years, with projects spanning several generations of the product. The earliest installation dates to the late 1990s within Everglades National Park, followed by another park project using Trex Transcend decking in the late 2010s, and a more recent installation on Seminole property in 2024.

That long history matters in a place where outdoor materials face relentless heat, humidity, moisture, and sun. Across decades and different sites, Trex has continued to support access through one of the country’s most demanding but treasured natural environments.

21. GreenTown Silo Eco-Home in Greensburg, KS

When a tornado destroyed 95% of Greensburg, Kansas, in 2007, the town made the unusually ambitious decision to rebuild as a model for sustainable rural living. The effort turned Greensburg into a testing ground for greener homes, public buildings, and infrastructure. 

The Silo Eco-Home became one of the most visible pieces of that recovery. Designed as part of a series of demonstration homes, it gave visitors a chance to see sustainable building ideas in practice rather than simply read about them. Trex donated material for the home’s low-maintenance deck, which serves the Greensburg GreenTown nonprofit and the town’s Green Visitors Center.

22. Leaf Deck in Minneapolis, MN

For couples who want to get married in a garden without squeezing the celebration onto a small patio, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum offers a dramatic, leaf-shaped deck with room for up to 250 guests.

Built with Trex Accents decking, the deck turns its botanical inspiration into the structure itself. Its broad, organic shape creates space for a full outdoor ceremony while still feeling at home within the surrounding gardens. The Arboretum continues to promote it as one of its signature wedding venues.

23. Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, SD

Few landmarks are more instantly recognizable than Mount Rushmore, and the paths leading visitors toward it have to handle traffic on a similarly outsized scale. Trex decking was installed along the Presidential Trail during the memorial’s visitor-services redevelopment in the 1990s, creating part of the route that brings millions of people closer to the monument each year.

The installation spans roughly 12,000 square feet of decking. More than 25 years later, the original path and steps are still holding up remarkably well despite decades of heavy use and Black Hills weather.

24. Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA

The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley explores the art, history, and culture of northern Virginia and the surrounding region. In 2021, it expanded that experience beyond its galleries with The Trails at MSV, a three-mile network winding through 90 acres of public art and preserved green space.

Trex was used for two 60-foot bridges and a circular floating boardwalk over the wetlands. Because traditional support pilings would have disturbed the habitat, engineers designed the 720-square-foot structure to rest on an aluminum support system and move gently with the water. Its 1,382 composite boards also had to bend into a near-circle while remaining stable underfoot.

The boardwalk brings visitors close to the wetlands while leaving the landscape beneath it largely undisturbed, making it a fitting addition to what the museum describes as an outdoor extension of its galleries.

25. Camp Nxwhere Near Joshua Tree, CA

Camp Nxwhere is less a conventional resort than a 100-acre desert playground built for artists, musicians, and other creatives. Set near Joshua Tree, the property combines six houses with pools, a skate park, firepits, and gathering spaces designed for everything from private escapes to boutique events.

Trex partnered with Nxwhere to create a showcase installation across the property using Refuge™ PVC decking. In a setting known for its punishing weather, the project gave Trex a chance to show how its products could become part of the desert architecture.

26. Sacramento Zoo in Sacramento, CA

For Sacramento Zoo’s orangutans, a better habitat means more ways to get off the ground. As part of a recent renovation, the zoo redesigned the exhibit around how the animals naturally move, using Trex Transcend decking in Spiced Rum to create elevated pathways and shaded platforms where they can climb and explore.

Trex was chosen with the habitat’s unusually tough residents in mind. The orangutans climb on the structures every day, claw at them, and occasionally chew them. Because the material requires less repair than traditional wood, the zoo’s care team can spend less time maintaining the habitat and more time focused on the animals.

The project builds on a relationship spanning more than 15 years, with Trex also used in the zoo’s okapi, alligator, and cheetah exhibits.

27. M&T Bank Stadium’s Xfinity FlockYard in Baltimore, MD

For Baltimore Ravens fans, the tailgating experience at M&T Bank Stadium is getting a significant upgrade. The new Xfinity FlockYard is being built as a multi-level gathering space with private lofts, a central courtyard, and a rooftop terrace, creating a place where groups can hang out before heading to the game.

Trex materials extend throughout the space, including Trex Enhance® Basics decking in Pebble Beach across its terraces and gathering areas, and Trex Transcend cladding in Island Mist on the structures themselves. The project was also developed using Trex’s new design and planning service, which helped bring the unusually large and layered outdoor space together.

28. Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City, UT

When Brigham Young University added new student housing, the expansion reshaped how students and visitors moved through that part of campus. A new pedestrian boardwalk was built using Trex Transcend decking, winding beneath a grove of mature trees and around a serene pond to create a more scenic connection between the dorms and surrounding campus.

The Spiced Rum color gives the walkway a warm, wood-like appearance that fits right in with the natural setting, while the composite surface was selected to withstand steady foot traffic.

29. Bringle Lake Park Boardwalk in Texarkana, TX

As part of a nearly $3 million renovation in 2014, Bringle Lake Park added new ways for visitors to experience its 15 acres of preserved wetlands. A network of walkways meanders through the landscape before extending onto a floating fishing dock, bringing visitors closer to the lake and surrounding habitat.

Trex composite decking and railing were used for the walkway and dock system, creating a durable route through an environment where the structures sit directly alongside (and, in the case of the floating dock, on) the water.

30. Yin-yang Deck in Arcadia, CA

Viewed from above, this deck becomes a giant yin-yang symbol. Contrasting sections of Trex decking curve around one another to form the familiar design, turning what could have been a conventional outdoor surface into a piece of graphic art.

It’s a simple idea beautifully executed, and a reminder that the pattern of the decking itself can completely define a space.

Explore What’s Possible With Trex

From a floating wetland boardwalk to a guitar-shaped backyard deck, these projects show just how many forms an outdoor space can take. Whether the goal is to solve a practical challenge, complement a one-of-a-kind setting, or turn the decking itself into part of the design, Trex can help bring ambitious outdoor ideas to life.