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

id = "hot-springs-trail"
name = "Hot Springs Trail"
short_name = "HST"
country = "US"
regions = ["CA", "OR", "ID"]
length_km = 3896
length_note = "2,421 mi, per the route page"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (Aria Zoner, 2016); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "Aria Zoner (publishes the route)"
publisher_url = "https://outsideways.com/routes/us/hot-springs-trail/"
url = "https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Springs-Trail-Official-Guidebook/dp/1505613922"
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.amazon.com/Hot-Springs-Trail-Official-Guidebook/dp/1505613922, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No track is included; the track is in the guidebook."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "The route is sold as a guidebook, and no track is published. Get the track from The Hot Springs Trail: Official Guidebook."

[osm]
relation = 0
note = "Not recorded: the route's creator does not publish a track."

[shield]
status = "no-logo-exists"
logo_source = ""
contact = "Aria Zoner"
note = "No logo is included; a person-defined route has no emblem. Ask the creator before using any mark."
logo_file = ""
logo_owner = "Aria Zoner"

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

[route]
creator = "Aria Zoner"
year = 2016
line_policy = "sold"
note = "From Santa Barbara, California, to the Canadian border in Idaho, visiting 100 wild or resort hot springs, with road, trail and trailless ridge sections. The creator hiked it in 2016 in 110 days and wrote the guidebook."

[[guide]]
title = "The Hot Springs Trail: Official Guidebook"
author = "Aria Zoner"
access = "purchase"
url = "https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Springs-Trail-Official-Guidebook/dp/1505613922"
format = "book"