📏 What The Numbers Mean
Every card collapses — About and Location open by default,
the rest are one tap on the heading.
Length is round-trip: on an out-and-back it counts the walk back,
and the label says so. Typical time is the estimate for that same
distance, so the two always agree.
Difficulty is how the trail is billed. What you thought of
it is a separate answer you give when you log a hike — and the page will
tell you when the two disagree.
The facts grid shows only what we actually know about a
trail, so a short list means a thin record, not an easy walk. A
Permit line appears only when one is genuinely required.
📍 The Map May Be The Park
Most trails draw their actual route in red, and the map frames the
whole walk rather than just its start — so a point-to-point trail shows you
where it ends up. A trail whose route we don't hold yet is a pin alone.
When we have the trailhead's own coordinates the pin is the trailhead,
and the line under the map names it.
When we don't, the map falls back to the park's center and says
so in as many words. Read that line before driving — it's the difference
between a parking spot and a rough area.
🚗 Directions ↗ and 📍 Google Place ↗ hand off to Google
Maps in a new tab; ⛅ Check the Weather stays on the site.
In Links, Official Website and Permits appear only when
we hold one for that trail. Search Google is always a ready-made
search built from the trail and park names, so it works even when we hold no
links at all. The AllTrails button tells you which kind it is:
Find on AllTrails is that same kind of search, while
View on AllTrails means we have a verified link and it opens the
trail itself.
✓ Logging A Hike
Signed in, ＋ I Hiked This opens the log. One row per hike —
walk the same trail again next year and log it again; both are kept, with
their own ratings and conditions.
Give as much date as you remember: an exact day, a month, just the year,
or I don't remember. A trip is optional — the point is that you can
record a hike that had nothing to do with a trip.
Rate it Overall, on Views (where no view is a real
answer), and on how hard you found it. Add the time it actually
took, the conditions that day, and whether you'd go again.
⚠ Two things here are public: A tip for other
hikers — it joins the Other Hikers card on this page, newest
first, with your date and trail condition but not your name — and your
ratings, which always count toward this trail's community average.
Your notes, who you went with and your photo link are yours alone. This form has a Save button and
nothing is written until you press it; Delete on a logged hike is
permanent and asks first.
Your hikes are shared with qMEET, the same way your park visits are —
log one here and it is there too, on the same trail.
🧳 Add It To A Trip
Add to a Trip does two things, and the second is the one worth
knowing: if the park isn't already on that trip's itinerary, it's
added as the day's plan — then this trail goes onto that plan's
checklist underneath it.
So adding three trails at one park gives you one park day with
three trails to tick off, not three separate entries. Adding the same
trail twice does nothing and says so.
On the itinerary each trail carries its length, shape and difficulty
underneath it — on screen and on the printed sheet, where it's an empty
box to tick by hand. On screen there's also a Trail details ↗ link
straight back to this page.
The card only appears once you have a trip to add it to, and
it always asks which trip — nothing is assumed.