New York State Park Trails with Trail Condition and Access Attributes

New York State's Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation provides a shapefile of mapped trails across its more than 250 parks and sites. The dataset includes attributes for trail use, surface, condition, and accessibility. It is published by data.ny.gov and was last updated on April 15, 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify trail accessibility for hikers, bikers, and equestrians using the Foot, Bike, and Horse columns (from 28 available columns).
• Analyze the relationship between trail surface type (Surface) and reported condition (Condition) for maintenance planning.
• Map trail networks and calculate total lengths (Shape_Leng) within specific park units (Unit) for resource management.
• Filter trails by permitted motorized vehicle use (MotorV, ATV, Snowmb) for recreational policy analysis.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative state agency (NY OPRHP) overseeing the park system.
• Includes detailed trail attributes like Tread_Widt, Surface, Condition, and Accessible for multifaceted analysis.
• Covers a large system of over 250 state parks and nearly 350,000 acres.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.
• The collection date (Colldate) may vary per record, and temporal consistency is not specified.

Provenance

Source

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) via data.ny.gov.

Collection Method

Likely collected and maintained as part of the agency's geographic information system (GIS) for park stewardship.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 20:25:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State, United States.