# Long-trail record. Field meanings: docs/schema.md in this repository.

id = "great-plains-trail"
name = "Great Plains Trail"
short_name = "GPT"
country = "US"
regions = ["SK", "ND", "SD", "NE", "TX"]
length_km = 3540
length_note = "2,200 mi, per the alliance"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (Steve Myers, Great Plains Trail Alliance); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "Steve Myers (Great Plains Trail Alliance), who publishes the route"
publisher_url = "https://greatplainstrail.org"
url = "https://www.greatplainstrail.org/gpt-map/"
format = "No line included"
crs = "EPSG:4326"
licence = "none-stated"
licence_text = "No track is included, so no source licence applies to a track. This record names the creator and the page its facts were read on (https://www.greatplainstrail.org/gpt-map/, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No OpenStreetMap route relation for the route was found; the alliance publishes an online map with no GPX."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "The alliance publishes the route as an online map with no GPX and no licence that allows passing the track on, and the OpenStreetMap relation of this name is a 0.46-mile path in Missouri, not this route. Get the track from the alliance's map page."

[osm]
relation = 0
note = "Not recorded: the only OpenStreetMap relation named Great Plains Trail, 21910936, is a 0.46 mi path in St. Charles County, Missouri, not this route."

[shield]
status = "no-logo-exists"
logo_source = ""
contact = "Steve Myers (Great Plains Trail Alliance)"
note = "No logo is included; a person-defined route has no emblem. Ask the creator before using any mark."
logo_file = ""
logo_owner = "Steve Myers (Great Plains Trail Alliance)"

[verification]
verified = false
note = "No line to measure."

[route]
creator = "Steve Myers (Great Plains Trail Alliance)"
line_policy = "open"
creator_words = "This map represents the best routing to date for the entire length of the trail. That said, the route and the map will likely remain 'works in progress' for quite some time to come."
creator_words_url = "https://www.greatplainstrail.org/gpt-map/"
note = "From Grassland National Park in Canada to Guadalupe Peak in Texas, through the Black Hills, the Dakota and Nebraska grasslands and the Texas panhandle, using public roads for long stretches. The alliance publishes the route as an online map and offers no GPX."

[[guide]]
title = "Great Plains Trail map"
author = "Great Plains Trail Alliance"
access = "free"
url = "https://www.greatplainstrail.org/gpt-map/"
format = "online map"