GPS Maps from National Geographic Mapping Software

The maps depicted here are generated from National Geographic Mapping Software.  The trails and routes were developed using the following three methods:

1.         Traced from trails that are on the 7.5 Minute TOPO Maps.

2.         Waypoints logged as the trails and routes were hiked.

3.        Breadcrumbs, that the GPS recorded as the trails and routes were hiked, and then uploaded to the mapping software.

Trails depicted on these TOPO Maps as a line of dashes (usually in red), are routes that are seldom hiked and usually do not appear on Trail Maps

As stated earlier, this information has been collected since 2002 and the method of collection has gotten more sophisticated in the more recent years.