The role of forest tracks in forest maintenance, timber harvesting, fire fighting and recreational activities is becoming more and more important in Italy. Good forest roads are crucial to effective forest management, and these activities all require the accessibility provided by a suitable road network. The main aim of this paper is to provide a description of the multi-functional role of forest road network in Italy and to analyse the different aspects starting from logging operations, forest fire prevention and fighting and recreational activities. In order to evaluate the accessibility to the forest, many cases study have been developed to describe particular forest areas. Accessibility is the term used to describe the strip of forest reachable on foot by loggers or tourists from the nearest forest road and by the different types of vehicles used in forest fire fighting. The density of forest road network (m/ha) is an important parameter to highlight the forest areas where it is possible to carry out logging operations and where the fire fighting activity is possible according also to the availability of water points. The evaluation of the accessibility is not easy to realize especially when the extension of forested land is high, infact the trees have different features and the lay of the land often hinder the building of new roads. All these factors are useful to built a model played in GIS to get a decision support tool.