Designated trailDeferredHeld

Iditarod National Historic Trail INHT

National Historic Trail (1978) · Alaska, United States

Published length
3,701 km2,300 miabout 2,300 mi winter route
Measured line
Not measuredNo line was downloaded and measured
Line
Record onlyThe reason is given below
Tier
DeferredListed, but something about it is not settled; the record's note says what

Record only

No line in this dataset

Metadata read; not downloaded. Deferred: Alaska is outside the first coverage order and the route is a winter trail.

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

The source

No map is drawn: the dataset holds no line 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 Historic Trail (1978)
Tier
DeferredListed, but something about it is not settled; the record's note says what
Listing
HeldListed, but something about it is not settled. The record’s note: “Deferred tier.”
Where
AK (Alaska), United States
Published length
3,701 km2,300 miabout 2,300 mi winter route. A check value, not measured from the line.
Short name
INHT
Record ID
iditarodStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification

Measured
NoNo line was downloaded and measured

Metadata read; not downloaded. Deferred: Alaska is outside the first coverage order and the route is a winter trail.

Source and licence

Source status
FoundThe source was located but not downloaded
Publisher
Bureau of Land Management
Format
ArcGIS FeatureServer, 26 features
Main line
Historic route; connecting routes and the dog-sled route are not in the layer.How the main line is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails
Credit
Bureau of Land Management (Kevin Keeler)The credit line to show, as the source asks
Source checked
2026-11-08
Newer release?
arcgis-layer-edit-date: GET <layer>?f=json and read editingInfo.dataLastEditDate (and the feature count); fetch again when either changes (edit 2023-04-03).How to tell whether the source has a newer release

What the source says

United States federal government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. 105. The National Park Service states: 'Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 105.' (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2311077, read 2026-11-09).

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

OpenStreetMap

Relation
17946723
Note
OSM 17946723.

Logo

Logo not included. NHT logos are protected federal marks.

Every field of the record, with its exact value

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

FieldValue
ididitarod
nameIditarod National Historic Trail
short_nameINHT
countryUS
regions[0]AK
length_km3701
length_noteabout 2,300 mi winter route
tierdeferred
designationNational Historic Trail (1978)
waveheld
wave_noteDeferred tier.
source.statusfound
source.publisherBureau of Land Management
source.urlhttps://services1.arcgis.com/fBc8EJBxQRMcHlei/arcgis/rest/services/Iditarod_National_Historic_Trail_BLM_Official_Temp/FeatureServer/0
source.discoveryarcgis-layer-edit-date: GET <layer>?f=json and read editingInfo.dataLastEditDate (and the feature count); fetch again when either changes (edit 2023-04-03).
source.formatArcGIS FeatureServer, 26 features
source.crsEPSG:3857
source.licenceus-gov-public-domain
source.licence_textUnited States federal government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. 105. The National Park Service states: 'Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 105.' (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2311077, read 2026-11-09).
source.attributionBureau of Land Management (Kevin Keeler)
source.osm_onlyfalse
source.mainlineHistoric route; connecting routes and the dog-sled route are not in the layer.
source.source_checked2026-11-08
source.redistributabletrue
source.line_sourcenone (no line included)
source.line_file""
source.line_absent_reasonNo line is included. Metadata read; not downloaded. Deferred: Alaska is outside the first coverage order and the route is a winter trail.
osm.relation17946723
osm.noteOSM 17946723.
shield.statususe-real-logo
shield.logo_sourcehttps://www.blm.gov/
shield.contactBLM Alaska
shield.noteNHT logos are protected federal marks.
shield.logo_file""
shield.logo_ownerBLM Alaska
verification.verifiedfalse
verification.noteMetadata read; not downloaded. Deferred: Alaska is outside the first coverage order and the route is a winter trail.