Designated trail

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath C&O

National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, United States

Published length: 297 km185 mi184.5 mi, from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park page
Measured track: Not measuredNo track was downloaded and measured
Track: Record onlyThe reason is given below
Tier: RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more

Record only

No track in this dataset

No OpenStreetMap route relation for the trail was found, and the publisher serves no track that may be passed on. The record is kept without a track.

A trail may be listed as a record only, with no track, when no track for it may be shared. The record says why.

Publisher’s page

No map is drawn: the dataset holds no track for this trail, and does not guess one.

The record

Kind: Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association
Designation: National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Tier: RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more
Listing: First setIn the first set of trails
Where: MD DC WV (Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia), United States
Published length: 297 km185 mi184.5 mi, from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park page. A check value, not measured from the track.
Short name: C&O
Record ID: chesapeake-ohio-canalStable: the directory name, never changed

Source and licence

Source status: NoneNo source of a track
Publisher: National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)
Publisher’s page: https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm
Source: https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm
Main track: No OpenStreetMap route relation covers the whole towpath; relation 9185394 is a short piece near Washington. The towpath is mapped as individual ways.How the main track is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails
Licence: None stated
Source checked: 2026-11-10

What the source says

No track is included, so no source licence applies to a track. This record names the publisher and the page its facts were read on (https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm, read 2026-11-10).

With the page it was read on. Not legal advice.

OpenStreetMap

Note: No route relation found when searched on 2026-11-10.

Logo

Logo not found. No logo is included. Ask the trail's holder before using its mark.

Corrections

This record is a text file anyone can correct. Please say where a correction can be checked: a source page, a map, or a measured track.

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Every field of the record, with its exact value

As stored in trail.toml. The record schema says what each field means.

Field	Value
`id`	chesapeake-ohio-canal
`name`	Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath
`short_name`	C&O
`country`	US
`regions[0]`	MD
`regions[1]`	DC
`regions[2]`	WV
`length_km`	297
`length_note`	184.5 mi, from the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park page
`tier`	regional
`designation`	National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
`wave`	1
`source.status`	none
`source.publisher`	National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)
`source.publisher_url`	https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm
`source.url`	https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm
`source.format`	No line included
`source.crs`	EPSG:4326
`source.licence`	none-stated
`source.licence_text`	No track is included, so no source licence applies to a track. This record names the publisher and the page its facts were read on (https://www.nps.gov/choh/planyourvisit/hiking.htm, read 2026-11-10).
`source.attribution`	none (no line included)
`source.osm_only`	false
`source.mainline`	No OpenStreetMap route relation covers the whole towpath; relation 9185394 is a short piece near Washington. The towpath is mapped as individual ways.
`source.source_checked`	2026-11-10
`source.redistributable`	true
`source.line_source`	none (no line included)
`source.line_file`	""
`source.line_absent_reason`	No OpenStreetMap route relation for the trail was found, and the publisher serves no track that may be passed on. The record is kept without a track.
`osm.relation`	0
`osm.note`	No route relation found when searched on 2026-11-10.
`shield.status`	logo-not-found
`shield.logo_source`	""
`shield.contact`	National Park Service
`shield.note`	No logo is included. Ask the trail's holder before using its mark.
`shield.logo_file`	""
`shield.logo_owner`	National Park Service
`verification.verified`	false
`verification.note`	No line to measure.