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    • Recreation Area Activities (Feature Layer)

    Metadata Updated: June 5, 2025

    This dataset contains the recreation opportunity information that the Forest Service collects through the Recreation Portal and shares with the public on https://www.recreation.gov, the Forest Service World Wide Web pages (https://www.fs.usda.gov/) and the Interactive Visitor Map. This recreation data contains detailed descriptions of recreational sites, areas, activities & facilities. This published dataset consists of one point feature class for recreational areas, one spatial view and three related tables such as activities, facilities & rec area advisories. The purpose of each related table is described belowRECAREAACTIVITIES: This related table contains information about the activities that are associated with the rec area.RECAREAFACILITIES: This related table contains information about the amenities that are associated with the rec area.RECAREAADVISORIES: This table contains events, news, alerts and warnings that are associated with the rec area.RECAREAACTIVITIES_V: This spatial view/feature class is generated by joining the RECAREAACTIVITIES table to the RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES Feature Class. Please note that the RECAREAID is the unique identifier present in point feature class and in the related tables as well. The RECAREAID is used as foreign key to access relate records.This published data is updated nightly from an XML feed maintained by the CIO Rec Portal team. This data is intended for public use and distribution. 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 June 5, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bca3358e80384a2794a672ed48b0be8e&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2017-04-12
    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 357a71c1-9c3d-4656-a199-720dfd3dc192
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/usfs::recreation-area-activities-feature-layer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -149.9850,18.2674,-65.7294,61.0822
    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ac7729416ca40b5b923a25dd4b7ea629938fa7196ea6b9918bc182c996aa87d0
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -149.9850, 18.2674, -149.9850, 61.0822, -65.7294, 61.0822, -65.7294, 18.2674, -149.9850, 18.2674}

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