On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:13 PM, johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: > > But there are cases where the trail-head has a given and well known NAME. > So far I generally tag that on the parking area, but parking is not > necessarily a requirement for having a trailhead. > > The easy definition is: A place where you you officially enter or exit a > wilderness area on a maintained trail or track *and* there is some kind of > allowance for switching modes of transportation. > > even easier: If the purpose is to park your car there and then leave the > area, it is a trailhead. If the purpose is to park your car and stay there > and have a BBQ and play in the creek, it is a park. >
Few lines are that clear. A railway station with no parking leading to a trail can be a trailhead. On paper maps major trailheads tend to be marked as such. The average parking lot near a trail may not be.
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