Designated trail

Finger Lakes Trail FLT

Finger Lakes Trail Conference; the North Country NST follows it in NY · New York, United States

Published length: 950 km590 miabout 590 mi with branches
Measured line: 921.1 km572 mi−3.0% against published
Line: In the datasetLicence: ODbL 1.0
Tier: RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more

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Main line
Alternates and connectors

Line: OpenStreetMap, read 2026-11-08, drawn simplified to 30 m. Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Base map: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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GPX is simplified to 5 m for devices. GeoJSON is the full-resolution line as published in this dataset. Neither carries elevation.

Main line921.1 km measured in 2 parts · OpenStreetMap

Main line: GPX, 535 KB Main line: GeoJSON, 941 KB
Alternates and connectorsServed separately by the source

Alternates and connectors: GPX, 4 KB Alternates and connectors: GeoJSON, 9 KB

Credit the source

Licence: ODbL 1.0

Lines from OpenStreetMap need the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors” and stay under the ODbL (share-alike).

release.txt: the source, licence and date the line files came from.

The record

Kind: Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association
Designation: Finger Lakes Trail Conference; the North Country NST follows it in NY
Tier: RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more
Listing: First setIn the first set of trails
Where: NY (New York), United States
Published length: 950 km590 miabout 590 mi with branches. A check value, not measured from the line.
Short name: FLT
Record ID: finger-lakesStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured: YesThe line was downloaded and measured

Published: 950 km590 mi
Measured: 921.1 km572 migeodesic, from the line
Difference: −3.0%measured minus published
Parts: 2pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

Within 15% of the published length Beyond 15%: the record must say why

The NCT-hosted layer holds only the segments the North Country Trail shares (628.9 km); the four OSM region relations are the whole Finger Lakes Trail and are used here: 921.1 km, 3.0% short of 950 km. The layer extract is kept as source-fragment.geojson.

Source and licence

Line in this dataset: line.geojsonThe main line file of the record
Source status: OpenStreetMap onlyThe only source is an OpenStreetMap route relation
Publisher: Finger Lakes Trail Conference (publishes the trail; the North Country Trail Association hosts its line as 'agol_flt')
Source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12725656Where to ask for the line: a layer or relation page
Line source: OpenStreetMap
Format: OpenStreetMap route relations, four regions, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract
Main line: Four region relations: Allegany (12725656), Western Finger Lakes (12725657), Eastern Finger Lakes (12725658) and Catskill (12725661). The two spur relations (Lick Brook, Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson.How the main line is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails
Coordinates: EPSG:4326What the source stores; published files are longitude/latitude (EPSG:4326)
Licence: ODbL 1.0
Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)The credit line to show, as the source asks
May be passed on: YesThe source's terms allow its line to be passed on
OpenStreetMap only: YesOpenStreetMap is the only source of the included line
Source checked: 2026-11-08
Newer release?: osm-relation-version: Overpass rel(ID); out meta; (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when any of the four region relations changes (v13 to v20, edited 2026-01-20 to 2026-09-06).How to tell whether the source has a newer release
Decision: Included with its name and logo. The line is from OpenStreetMap.

What the source says

OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (share-alike). Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors. The OpenStreetMap copyright page states: 'You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.' (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright, read 2026-11-09). The line included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 12725656.

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

OpenStreetMap

Relation: 12725656
Note: Four region relations are the line: 12725656 Allegany, 12725657 Western Finger Lakes, 12725658 Eastern Finger Lakes, 12725661 Catskill. Two spur relations (11285669 Lick Brook, 11285670 Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson. Downloaded 2026-11-08; release.txt has the versions.

Logo

Shown only to identify the trail

This logo belongs to Finger Lakes Trail Conference. It is not covered by this dataset’s licences, and no right to use it for any other purpose is given or implied.

A holder who wants a logo removed, replaced or credited differently can ask; see Logos.

Status: Logo in useThe trail has a logo
Holder: Finger Lakes Trail Conference
Taken from: https://fingerlakestrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/finger-lakes-trail-logo-small.png
File: shield.png
Note: The Conference's own mark, from its site: the yellow octagon with dark-green firs and 'FT / FINGER LAKES TRAIL', 82x96 PNG.

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`	finger-lakes
`name`	Finger Lakes Trail
`short_name`	FLT
`country`	US
`regions[0]`	NY
`length_km`	950
`length_note`	about 590 mi with branches
`tier`	regional
`designation`	Finger Lakes Trail Conference; the North Country NST follows it in NY
`wave`	1
`source.status`	osm-only
`source.publisher`	Finger Lakes Trail Conference (publishes the trail; the North Country Trail Association hosts its line as 'agol_flt')
`source.url`	https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12725656
`source.discovery`	osm-relation-version: Overpass `rel(ID); out meta;` (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when any of the four region relations changes (v13 to v20, edited 2026-01-20 to 2026-09-06).
`source.format`	OpenStreetMap route relations, four regions, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract
`source.crs`	EPSG:4326
`source.licence`	ODbL-1.0
`source.licence_text`	OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (share-alike). Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors. The OpenStreetMap copyright page states: 'You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.' (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright, read 2026-11-09). The line included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 12725656.
`source.attribution`	OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
`source.osm_only`	true
`source.decision`	included-named
`source.decision_text`	Included with its name and logo. The line is from OpenStreetMap.
`source.mainline`	Four region relations: Allegany (12725656), Western Finger Lakes (12725657), Eastern Finger Lakes (12725658) and Catskill (12725661). The two spur relations (Lick Brook, Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson.
`source.source_checked`	2026-11-08
`source.redistributable`	true
`source.line_source`	OpenStreetMap
`source.line_file`	line.geojson
`osm.relation`	12725656
`osm.note`	Four region relations are the line: 12725656 Allegany, 12725657 Western Finger Lakes, 12725658 Eastern Finger Lakes, 12725661 Catskill. Two spur relations (11285669 Lick Brook, 11285670 Buttermilk Falls) are in alternates.geojson. Downloaded 2026-11-08; release.txt has the versions.
`shield.status`	use-real-logo
`shield.logo_source`	https://fingerlakestrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/finger-lakes-trail-logo-small.png
`shield.contact`	Finger Lakes Trail Conference
`shield.note`	The Conference's own mark, from its site: the yellow octagon with dark-green firs and 'FT / FINGER LAKES TRAIL', 82x96 PNG.
`shield.logo_file`	shield.png
`shield.logo_owner`	Finger Lakes Trail Conference
`verification.verified`	true
`verification.date`	2026-11-08
`verification.measured_km`	921.1
`verification.difference_percent`	-3.0
`verification.parts`	2
`verification.note`	The NCT-hosted layer holds only the segments the North Country Trail shares (628.9 km); the four OSM region relations are the whole Finger Lakes Trail and are used here: 921.1 km, 3.0% short of 950 km. The layer extract is kept as source-fragment.geojson.