EXISTING RECREATIONAL TRAILS IN FLORIDA - JANUARY 2018

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan.

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan.

Spatial and Attribute Information

Originally this coverage was created and maintained by Kent Wimmer and 
the 1000 Friends of Florida. Since June of 2004, the GeoPlan Center has 
been contracted by FDEP's Office of Greenways and Trails to maintain this 
coverage as part of the Florida Greenways Planning Project. Trail information 
is submitted via the Florida Trails Website (www.FloridaTrailsNetwork.com) 
from federal, state and local agencies.

Updated trails layer with line files from OGT, Division of Forestry, FTA, Polk 
County, St. Lucie County, Walton County, Sarasota County, St. John's County, 
and Four Freedoms Trail.

Updated paddle trails based on a comparison to information from online 
sources and a table of paddle trails that was provided by the Office of 
Greenways and Trails regional coordinators.
  
Removed duplicates, corrected linework that was spatially inaccurate, and 
dissolved features to simplify features.  Also added a blueway network inventory 
from Sarasota County.

Updated trails based on a trail inventory provided by Lee County.

-Added the Florida Circumnavigational Trail based on a shapefile provided 
 by the Office of Greenways and Trails.  This replaced portions of water trails 
 in the Big Bend area and Citrus and Lee County
-Recalculated AUTOID
-Deleted 10 segments with 0 length
-Deleted or merged segments with length > 6ft
-Noted where FTACONNECT = Y in the COMMENTS field
-Noted where LOOP = Y in the COMMENTS field
-Transferred information in the NOTES field to the COMMENTS field
-Deleted rarely used fields (SEG_LENGTH, ADJ_CORRIDOR, CIRCUM_TRAIL, 
 LOOP, FTACONNECT, NOTES, UPDATED)

Added/revised trails submitted by Pinellas County, Sarasota County, and 
the Egan Creek Greenway submitted by the City of Fernandina Beach.

Added/revised Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail based on linework 
provided by Brian Davis at FDEP.

Added/revised trails from SJRWMD, Christopher Oman, received on 01/13/09

Added paddle trails from www.flseaislandspaddlingtrails.com/maps.html in 
Duval and Nassau counties.

Added St. Marks Historic Railroad State Trail provided by Robin Turner 
from the Office of Greenways and Trails from Tallahassee-Leon County GIS

Added Palatka to Butler State Trail in Clay County near Keystone Heights 
provided by Robin Turner from the Office of Greenways and Trails

Added trails submitted by Manatee County (2/2009) including Leffis Key 
Park, Duette Park, Riverview Point Park, Emerson Point Preserve, and 
Robinson Preserve trails.

Added St. George Island Trail, submitted by Regional Coordinator, FDEP 
Office of Greenways and Trails in 2/2009.

Added US 17 Multi-use Path submitted by Regional Coordinator, FDEP 
Office of Greenways and Trails 02/2009

Added Aaron Bessant Trail at Pier Park, DOT Trail along Highway 79, 
Frank Brown Park Trails based on maps provided by Mary Carmichael in 
January of 2009.

Added St. Augustine to Palatka Trail Phase I based on PDF map provided 
by Robin Turner, Regional Trails Coordinator at the Office of Greenways and 
Trails.

Added/revised trails at Brooker Creek Preserve and Weedon Island Preserve 
in Pinellas Co. submitted by Marcia Colby at the Pinellas County Department of 
Environmental Management in January of 2009.

Added Scenic Gulf Drive/Old Hwy 98 Trail, from Walton to Okaloosa County 
based on PDFs submitted by Robin Turner, Regional Trails Coordinator at the 
Office of Greenways and Trails.

Added off street trails and bike facilities submitted by Malisa Mccreedy at 
the City of Orlando Department of Families, Parks and Recreation in January 
of 2009.  Selected only where "Type" = 'Off Street'.

Added trails from Cedar Point Park north of Jacksonville. Trail shapefile 
submitted by Steven Eakins at ETM Inc. for the City of Jacksonville Rec 
& Parks on 1/20/2009.

Added Trails from a Shapefile of the Hardee Lakes Trails Submitted Bryan 
McCall at Hardee County on 1/21/2009.

Removed trails at SWFWMD Little Manatee River Lower Tract that did not 
exist according to Sherly Bowman at Hillsborough County Park, Recreation 
and Conservation Department.  Added additional trails submitted by Sheryl 
Bowman in north Hillsborough County.

Added trails from a shapefile sent from Hillsborough County Planning and 
Growth Management submitted by Carol Boteler on 1/22/2009.

Added separated bikeways submitted in shapefile format by Donovan Hanna 
from Highlands County Planning in January 2009.

Added paddle trails and hiking trails from a shapefile provided by Lakshmi 
Garram at the Charlotte County-Punta Gorda MPO on 1/26/09

Added shapefile of the Dutton Canoe Trail uploaded to the Florida Trails Network 
website by Malcolm Clemons, City of Atlantic Beach, on 1/27/09.

Added the S-Line Greenway in the City of Jacksonville based on a shapefile submitted by
Robin Turner on 1/28/2009.

Clay County trails added based on shapefile submitted by Ann Stodola on 
1/30/2009.

Harder's Park trails added based on a shapefile submitted by Janie Lucas 
from Bay County on 2/17/2009.

Added Martin County trails provided in shapefile format by Baret Barry from 
Martin County Engineering on 2/19/2009.

Added Alachua Conservation Trust (ACT) trails for Lake Tuscawilla Preserve 
Trails and Prairie Creek Basin Trails submitted in shapefile format by Liz Binford 
on 2/25/2009.

St. Lucie County trails added from shapefile provided by Nicole McPherson 
on 2/25/2008.

Big Cypress ORV trails added based on shapefile sent from Stefis Demetropoulos 
at the Division of Forestry.  Unit field used for NAME2.

Added Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) trails from 
shapefile provided by Robin Turner on 3/3/2009.  Some Florida Trail segments 
along Suwannee River were not added due to the fact that although existing 
linework may be more simplified, it was accurate and attributes were more complete. 
The original file name was land_management_trails.zip.

Added motorized and nonmotorized trails in Apalachicola National Forest submitted 
by Robin Turner from OGT on 3/10/2009.  Did not add Florida National Scenic 
Trail through Apalachicola NF since FTA GPS attributes were more complete.

Added Ike Anderson Bike Trail, a MUP in Monticello, FL submitted as pdf 
map by Emily Anderson, City Clerk of Monticello on 3/11/2009.

Added Apalachicola NF ORV trailheads submitted as point shapefile submitted 
by Robin Turner at OGT on 3/10/09, contact is Lisa Morgan, GIS Coordinator 
for Apalachicola NF.  Added small line segments to end of trails in vicinity of points.

Added a Lake Talquin Trail submitted by Robin Turner at OGT on behalf 
of Shirley Deal (shirley.deal@dep.state.fl.us) on 4/02/2009.  Also removed 
two Lake Talquin Trails that were abandoned.

Added Silver Lake Recreation Area Interpretive Hiking Trail submitted in 
shapefile format by Robin Turner from OGT on 4/2/2009.

Added trails submitted by Stefis Demetropoulos at the Division of Forestry 
on 2/11/09.  This included the addition of Pt. Washington State Forest Bike 
Trail, Pine Log State Forest Trails, Lake Talquin State Forest Trails, Lake 
Wales Ridge State Forest Trails, Lake George State Forest Roads, Jennings 
State Forest Horse Trails, Jennings State Forest Evans Loop, Goethe State 
Forest Tidewater, Apex, and Black Prong Trails, and Cary State Forest Trails.  
Some of the trials were not added due to the fact that they were identical in 
alignment to trails already submitted by the DOF.  These trails included trails 
in the Myakka State Forest, the Pt. Washington Cassine Trail, the Tiger Bay 
Buncombe Hill Trail, and the Jennings Loop Trail. Some of the trails were not 
added that were submitted due to the fact that there was already a trail in the 
inventory that was submitted based on GPS coordinates taken by FTA.  These 
trails include the Pine Log Orange Trail (part), the Florida Trail through Etoniah 
State Forest and the Etoniah Trailwalker Trail.

Added motorized trails from shapefile sent by Stefis Demetropoulos at the 
Division of Forestry on 2/12/2009.

Added Putnam County trails as submitted by Kim Paxton on 4/14/2009, 
except where the linework would revise trails previously submitted by the 
Division of Forestry.

Updated layer with data from Tom Matthews, Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission.  Areas and attributes updated include: Andrews
WMA, Apalachicola River WEA, Aucilla WMA, Babcock-Webb WMA,
Big Bend WMA, Branan Field MP, Chassahowitzka WMA, Chinsegut WEA,
Fisheating Creek WMA, Fort White MP, Guana River WMA, Half Moon WMA,
Hungryland WMA, JW Corbett WMA, Lake Wales Ridge WEA, Perry Oldenburg
MP, Platt Branch MP, Split Oak Forest MP, Suwannee Ridge MP, Tenoroc FMA, 
Three Lakes WMA, Tosahatchee WMA, Triple N Ranch WMA. In some cases, 
only attribute data was updated and not linework. The Big Bend Saltwater paddling 
segment of the FL Circumnavigational Trail was not updated because Dean Rogers
at OGT recently submitted linework for the entire statewide paddling trail.

Modified dataset using typology functions. Features with pseudo nodes 
sharing identical attributes were merged into a single feature. Erroneous
features smaller than the .5 meter cluster tolerance were also removed from 
the dataset.

Added the Southwood Trail in Leon County submitted by Robin Turner
from the Office of Greenways. Added trails provided by Stefis Demetropoulos
on 6/18/2009 from the Division of Forestry. New trails not previously 
contained in the dataset were added. Some existing trails were updated 
with more accurate features provided in the uploads. Updated areas include 
Wakulla, Twin Rivers, Lake Talquin, Goethe, and Blackwater River State 
Forests.  New motorized trails from Hell's Tate were also added.

Added trails submitted by Marsha Connell and Jane Hawkins 
from Pasco County's Planning Department. Existing trails were
extracted from the original file and incorporated into the database

Added trails from Leon County using shapefile provided by Jason McEachern, 
Tallahassee-Leon County GIS. Replaced linework for GF & A Trail, Capital 
Circle SE Connector Trail, and Southwood Trail.  Added new linework for 
Apalachee Regional Park Trails.

Added the Lake Henrietta Trail and Lake Munson Slough Trail from Tallahassee.
Trails were digitized from PDF sent by Robin Turner from the Office of 
Greenways and Trails via email. Added the Archer Road  and Downtown Connector 
Trail from the City of Gainesville. Trails were digitized from PDF sent by Robin 
Turner from the Office of Greenways and Trails via email. Realigned and extended 
Depot Ave Trail west over 13th street

Added Alachua County Forever Trails submitted by Kelly Mchperson 
of the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department.
Extended the General James Van Fleet State Trail to the
Auburndale Trail near Polk City. Request submitted by Marsha 
Connell of OGT

Added the Bayway South and North Bay Trails in Pinellas County submitted by 
Marsha Connell from the Office of Greenways and Trails. Trails were digitized 
from figure 4-1 of Pinellas County's Comprehensive Plan with the aid of aerials. 
Updated the linework for Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County by deleting 
existing linework and adding new linework submitted by Marsha Connell. 
Removed the Okeechobee Water Trail due to its unofficial designation as a 
trail. Changed the state designation status from no to yes for the Great Calusa 
Blueway Trail.

Added completed segments of the Spring-to-Spring Trail in Volusia County. Shapefile provided 
by Susanna Wilde, Volusia County.

Updated Seminole County Public Works linework throughout the county. 
The trails updated were Cross Seminole Trail, Flagler Trail, Geneva 
Wilderness Area, Kewanee Trail, Lake Mary Boulevard, Rinehardt 
Riverwalk Connector, Riverwalk, and Seminole Wekiva Trail. Trails that 
were labeled as existing and publicly disseminated were included in the 
update. Duplicate linework in the previous Existing Recreational Trails 
shapefile were removed. Update request sent by Heidi Miller, Seminole 
County on 5/21/2010.

Added the Moccasin Slough County Walking and Fitness trails, Camp Chowenwaw 
Boardwalk and Black Creek Paddling Trail in Clay County. Linework submitted in 
shapefile format by Ann Stodola of Clay County on 6/21/2010. Shapefile was 
reprojected from NAD 1983 HARN State Plane to FGDL Albers.

Extended the Palatka to Lake Butler State Trail to CR 315 in Grandin (phase two). 
Extension location was submitted via pdf from Robin Turner of OGT on 10/19/2010.
Line work was hand digitized using aerials. Edited the Van Fleet State Trail's attribute 
information regarding ownership and name information in Polk County. 
Correction requested by Marsha Connell of OGT on 10/28/2010.

Attributes of the "SURFACE", "TYPE", and "SUBTYPE" were modified and 
consolidated to reflect the attribute definitions stipulated in the metadata. The 
Palatka to Lake Butler State Trail was extended to 57th Street in Bradford 
County. Extended the Capital Southeast Connector in Tallahassee to just west 
of the Tallahassee St. Marks State Trail. Extended the Four Freedoms Trail to 
NE Rocky Ford Road in Madison. All extension requests were sent on PDFs by 
Robin Turner of OGT on 11/18/2010. All linework was hand digitized using aerials 
and the PDFs as reference. Modified the Yellow River, Blackwater River, 
Pithlachoscottee River, Perdido River, Sweetwater-Juniper Creek, Alafia River, and 
Shoal River Paddling Trails to reflect actual designations. Added the Shingle Creek 
Paddling Trail in Osceola County. All paddling trail modifications/addition requests were 
sent as shapefiles from Dean Rodgers of OGT on 12/03/2010.

Updated Florida State Parks' trails with linework submitted by 
Heather Pence at OGT on 4/26/2011. Line work was in 
shapefile format and imported into a geodatabase for quality 
control. Attributes were uppercased and modified to fit within 
the trails database syntax. Some duplicate linework was 
removed from the update. Removed pseudo nodes in ArcMap 
using the typology toolbar. Removed existing outdated linework 
from the existing trails database and appended the new update.

Updated the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) trails 
with linework submitted by Heather Pence at OGT on 4/27/2011.
Linework was received in 24 shapefiles each representing a different
property owned by FWC. The shapefiles were merged, projected, and imported
into a geodatabase for quality control. Attributes were uppercased and 
modified to fit within the trails database syntax. Removed pseudo 
nodes in ArcMap using the typology toolbar. Removed existing 
outdated linework from the existing trails database and appended the 
new update.

Updated the  West Orange Trail in Orlando with linework submitted
by Inwood Consulting Engineers via Marsha Connell at OGT on 6/1/2011.
Line work was in shapefile format and imported into a geodatabase for quality 
control. Attributes were uppercased and modified to fit within the trails database 
syntax. Removed existing outdated linework from the existing trails database 
and appended the new update.

Added the Leigh Greenway Trail in Flagler County. Linework
submitted in shapefile format by Robin Turner at OGT on 6/2/2011.
Shapefile was in polygon format. Linework was digitized by GeoPlan 
using aerials and physical descriptions. Attributes were added to fit 
within the trails database syntax and appended update to the existing
trails database.

Updated and extended the linework for the Four Freedoms Trail in Madison County. 
Linework was submitted in shapefile format by Dean Rodgers at OGT on 9/8/2011.
Existing linework for the Four Freedoms Trail was removed from the statewide trails 
database and replaced with the submitted shapefile. Attributes were modified to fit 
within the statewide attribute table schema.

Added the Apalachee Regional Trail in Leon County. The trail was
submitted in Google's KML format by Robin Turner of OGT on 9/9/2011.
The KML file was converted to shapefile format by utilizing Minnesota 
Department of Natural Resources' Garmin Application. The shapefile
was then projected to FGDL Albers. Attributes were populated based on 
information provided by OGT and the trail's website.

Added the City of Jacksonville trails submitted by Brian Burket
via the trails upload website on 9/22/2011. The linework was 
in shapefile format and were projected to FGDL Albers projection.
The Betz Tiger Point Preserve trails, Castaway Island Preserve trails,
Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail Trail Spurs, Cecil Field Conservation Corridor 
trails, and the Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park trails were all added to the
statewide database.

Updated and added Volusia County linework. The linework was 
in shapefile format and were projected to FGDL Albers projection.
The update was initiated by GeoPlan after a search of Volusia County's
GIS data revealed the update was necessary. Added trails include
Mosquito Lagoon Blueways, Lake Woodruff NWR, Longleaf Pine Preserve,
Spring to Spring, Tuck Island Blueway, Tiger Bay State Park, Wilbur Rose
Blueway, Wiregrass Prairie Preserve, and the World's Most Famous Beach Trail. 
Pseudo nodes were removed during the QA/QC process.

Updated the Little Econ Greenway trail in Orange County. The linework 
was in shapefile format and were projected to FGDL Albers projection.
The update was initiated by GeoPlan after a search of Orange County's
GIS data revealed the update was necessary

Added the City of Jacksonville trails submitted by Brian Burket
via the trails upload website on 12/21/2011. The linework was 
in shapefile format and were projected to FGDL Albers projection.
Trails for the Camp Milton Historic Preserve, Dutton Island Preserve, 
Reddie Point Preserve, Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park, and Cecil 
Conservation Corridor were added or updated.

Updated and added St. Johns River Water Management District's trails
submitted by Robin Turner of OGT on 12/21/2011. The shapefiles were, 
projected, and imported into a geodatabase for quality control. Attributes 
were uppercased and modified to fit within the trails database syntax. 
Removed pseudo nodes in ArcMap using the typology toolbar. Removed 
existing outdated linework from the existing trails database and appended the 
new update.

Reintroduced segment 21 of the Florida Circumnavigational Paddling Trail 
that was inadvertently removed during the last update.

Updated the SURFACE, TYPE, SUBTYPE, and NAME fields for the 
Withlacoochee State Trail according to the information given from the 
submitters Dean and Marsha.

All trails with an input date between 01/01/2001 and 12/31/2004 were updated or verified. Trails
needing updating, either spatially or attribute wise, were done so according to internet searching.
All websites are given for the source of the update in the SOURCE field of the attribute table.
The update was done according to maps or data attained from the website. Maps were
georeferenced then rectified. Trails in the map area were either moved or created to cover the
trails on the map. Data was converted to shapefile format then added to the working layer.
Google Earth was also used as a tool for updating the trails in a few instances. In
which case the KML file was converted to a shapefile then added to the working layer.

Segments which represented sidewalks were removed from the layer.

Obtained updated data from OGT and layer updated in ArcSDE, DataMiner 
and MapDirect.

Obtained updated data from OGT and layer updated in the GIS library.

This dataset was received by the GeoPlan Center on 1/13/2017
from Daniel F. Diaz via email (daniel.diaz@dep.state.fl.us).
The data was in shapefile format and was in the following projection:
Albers NAD 83 HARN.

- Added the field DESCRIPT based on NAME.
- Added the field FGDLAQDATE based on date received from source.
- Upcased all text in the attribute table.
- Restructured table to reflect field lengths.
- Data set was renamed existing_trails_dec16 from EXISTING_TRAILS_2016

Updated data obtained from OGT and updated the same in the GIS library.

Updated data obtained from OGT and updated the same in the GIS library.

This dataset was received by the GeoPlan Center on 1/25/2018
from Daniel F. Diaz via email (daniel.diaz@dep.state.fl.us).
The data was in shapefile format and was in the following projection:
Albers NAD 83 HARN.

- Added the field DESCRIPT based on NAME.
- Added the field FGDLAQDATE based on date received from source.
- Removed field SHAPE_LENGTH.
- Removed field OBJECT_ID.
- Uppercased all text in the attribute table.
- Restructured table to reflect field lengths.
- Data set was renamed existing_trails_jan18 from EXISTING_TRAILS

Dataset copied.

Internal feature number.

ESRI

Feature geometry.

ESRI

Trail Name: If a trail is part of a larger trail network, then the larger trail network name would take precedence over a regional or local trail name. For example, a trail that is part of the Florida National Scenic Trail would be designated with NAME = "Florida National Scenic Trail" and NAME2 = Local Trail Name, such as "NAVARRE BIKE PATH."

OGT

Regional or Local Trail Name: Hiking and multi-use trails are given precedence over bicycle and other road-based trails. If a hiking trail and a bicycle trail took the same route, the hiking trail would be given the NAME and the bicycle trail would be given the NAME2.

OGT

Additional Local Trail Name: If a trail were part of two larger trail networks, then the local trail name would be given in NAME3.

OGT

Trail surface type.

OGT

Trail use type.

OGT

Indicates whether hiking is allowed on a multi-use trail.

OGT

Indicates whether biking is allowed on a multi-use trail.

OGT

Indicates whether horseback riding is allowed on a multi-use trail.

OGT

Managing Entity. Primary Organization/ Agency responsible for maintaining the trail.

OGT

Additional Managing Entity. Another organization/ agency (in addition to the Primary Managing Entity) that is responsible for maintaining the trail.

OGT

Indicates whether this trail is designated by the Office of Greenways and Trails as a state designated trail.

OGT

Indicates whether this trail is located along a previous rail corridor. (Does not necessarily have to be a Rails-To-Trails Conservancy Trail).

OGT

County where trail is located.

OGT

Trail length in miles.

OGT

Source of the trail linework and attribute information

OGT

Any additional comments or information about this trail.

OGT

Date of last update to trail attributes or alignment

OGT

GeoPlan added attributed based on NAME field.

GeoPlan

FGDL added field based on date received from source

GeoPlan

Unique ID added by GeoPlan

GeoPlan

Length in meters

GeoPlan