[Joey]

The map below displays GIS trail data straight from the USFS ArcGIS server to your screen. As you pan around this map the GIS server only sends you enough ‘tiles’ to fill your screen plus a bit more. If you click a trail then you will see a display with all the attribute data the GIS server has for the thing that you clicked. If you would like to understand more about this public-facing GIS trail data, then please click “Map Tips” in the upper left corner and read the section “About trail data”. View larger size in new window

[Joey]

I have updated the map you see in my post above. The new layer “FSTopo_download” will let you download FSTopos in the form of GeoPDF and/or GeoTiff. For more information, please click “Map Tips” in the upper left corner, scroll down and click “About FSTopo download”. Also, for many forests (but not all) the “Trail_class” layer will show you at a glance whether you are looking at a main trail or little more than a bootpath. To get the most benefit from the trail data this map can display please click “Map Tips” and read “About trail data”.

[whitebark]

Interesting to see the trail route data! Thanks for updating gmap4 to display it.

[Chico]

Thanks. Very interesting!

[puzzlr]

Wow, I'm impressed. Someone must be doing some updates to the data in addition to moving the bits around. Many of the USFS trails that were badly out of date have been fixed. There are still some curiosities -- I challenge anyone to find the trail down to Lake Kulla Kulla. If you do, I want to hear about it.

[Joey]

I just updated the trail display on the Gmap4 National Forest Recreation Map. Trails are defined on the Forest Service GIS server as consisting of one or more trail segments. Now when you click a trail the map will show a red circle at the endpoints for the trail segment you clicked and small red dots along that trail segment. The distance data you saw in the attribute display should be the approximate distance of that trail segment. If you click on a trail junction then the attribute display and the map will show more than one trail segment. At least for the MBSNF trail segment endpoints are sometimes at seemingly random spots along the trail. Also not every trail junction is a segment endpoint for the main trail. To delete the red circles and dots, click the map where there is no trail. View larger size in new window

[Chico]

Wow, some user wants to give their own personal name to a trailhead. https://mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php?ll=47.368405,-120.795666&z=14&t=h,Trail_yellow,Trail_class&q=https://mappingsupport.com/p/special_maps/recreation/USFS_recreation.txt

[Juan del Bosque]

I visited Kulla Kulla in September. I bushwhacked in from the north. I was surprised to see a new trail cut along the timbered shoreline and a gorgeous firepit in the main campsite which was close to a sandy beach. I followed the trail around and up to beyond Little Kulla Kulla where I lost it in rocks, but I believe it must have a terminus on the Defiance Trail. It was obviously cut as a scrambling route--like the Enchantments route up from Snow.

[puzzlr]

[timberghost]

AWESOME!!!