A 235-mile polyline feature depicting the New England National Scenic Trail from the Long Island Sound in Guilford, Connecticut, to the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border. The dataset was created by combining work from the Connecticut Forest & Park Association and the Appalachian Mountain Club. It was last updated on March 4, 2026.
Use Cases
- Mapping trail corridors and calculating distances based on the 235-mile centerline.
- Analyzing trail connectivity between states based on the combined Connecticut and Massachusetts data.
- Visualizing the trail's geographic path from the Long Island Sound to the MA/NH border.
- Planning conservation efforts for the trail's ecological landscapes mentioned in the platform tags.
Strengths
- Specific 235-mile trail length is documented.
- Combines authoritative data from two state-level trail organizations.
- Explicitly covers two states (Connecticut and Massachusetts).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
- Collection Method
- A single polyline feature was created by combining datasets developed for the individual states of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03 04 00:53:10.014353; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Traverses Connecticut and Massachusetts, from the Long Island Sound to the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border.