{"id":35752,"date":"2021-12-09T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=35752"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:06:52","slug":"chester-county-introduces-new-interactive-trailfinder-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=35752","title":{"rendered":"Chester County introduces new Interactive Trailfinder Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15184\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chester-Valley-Trail-winter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15184\" class=\"wp-image-15184 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chester-Valley-Trail-winter-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester Valley Trail, open throughout winter and all seasons. 2. Brandywine Hunt Development offers one of many public trail systems throughout Chester County.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Chester County Planning Commission released a new interactive map this week, showcasing all the county\u2019s publicly accessible trails and nature preserves.<\/p>\n<p>The Trailfinder Map helps residents and visitors discover new trails \u2013 more than 550 miles of them \u2013 to explore in Chester County. Nearly 70 miles of trails are multi-use, allowing for pedestrian and bicycle use, and are ADA-accessible. The map does not include most trails within housing developments, or short, isolated segments of trails.<\/p>\n<p>Brian O\u2019Leary, Executive Director of the Chester County Planning Commission said, \u201cFor years the Chester County Planning Commission has maintained a database of publicly accessible trails for use in our planning work. This new interactive map was created to share our information with the public in response to many requests for information about trails within the county.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Map users can easily identify and research a trail or nature preserve prior to their visit to ensure the best experience possible. Additionally, the map features the capability to rate your favorite trail, add comments, upload images, submit errors, and provide feedback.<\/p>\n<p>While data on Chester County\u2019s owned trails \u2013 Chester Valley, Schuylkill River and Struble trails \u2013 is provided by GPS data collected by park rangers, other trail data comes from a variety of sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to help improve the accuracy of the data, the map is being released as a \u201cbeta version\u201d to collect feedback on the information and usability of the map,\u201d added Brain O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n<p>The Chester County Planning Commission hopes to add additional data and make improvements to the map interface over time and encourages users to provide feedback.<\/p>\n<p>To see the map, find trails near you, and provide comments, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/chesco.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html\">https:\/\/chesco.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about trail planning in Chester County, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chescoplanning.org\/transportation\/TrailPlanning.cfm\">https:\/\/www.chescoplanning.org\/transportation\/TrailPlanning.cfm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chester County Planning Commission released a new interactive map this week, showcasing all the county\u2019s publicly accessible trails and nature preserves. The Trailfinder Map helps residents and visitors discover new trails \u2013 more than 550 miles of them \u2013 to explore in Chester County. Nearly 70 miles of trails are multi-use, allowing for pedestrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[138,13605],"class_list":["post-35752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-interactive-trail-map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35753,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752\/revisions\/35753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}