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    • National Forest System Trails (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: January 6, 2026

    The Trails Layer is designed to provide information about National Forest System trail locations and characteristics to the public. When fully realized, it will describe trail locations, basic characteristics of the trail, and where and when various trail uses are prohibited, allowed and encouraged. Because the data readiness varies between Forests, each Forest will approve which level of attribute subset are published for that forest. Forests can provide no information or one of three attribute subsets describing trails. The attribute subsets include TrailNFS_Centerline which includes the location and trail name and number; TrailNFS_Basic which adds information about basic trail characteristics; and TrailNFS_Mgmt which adds information about where and when users are prohibited, allowed, and encouraged. When a Forest chooses to provide the highest attribute subset, TrailNFS_Mgmt, these attributes must be consistent with the Forest's published Motorized Vehicle Use Map (MVUM). Metadata for the individual Forest feature classes used to compile this feature class are available at data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/edw/dir_trails.php. Metadata

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date January 6, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date January 6, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0969eb1cbb2f4a1d861ee58fff587cc2&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2017-03-27
    Data Last Modified 2022-08-25
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id f009bfad-eae3-4952-a5be-a87ae45889cf
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::national-forest-system-trails-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -149.9974,18.2718,-65.7439,61.1314
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 037c497f46cc5d4be0f24a0e85378da179bc5822e31ab2d4b4a60fc1e6064bd0
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -149.9974, 18.2718, -149.9974, 61.1314, -65.7439, 61.1314, -65.7439, 18.2718, -149.9974, 18.2718}

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