Mountains-to-Sea Trail MST-NC

The record

Kind

Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association

Designation

North Carolina State Trail; Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail

Tier

RegionalA long trail of 80 km (50 mi) or more

Listing

First setIn the first set of trails

Where

NC (North Carolina), United States

Published length

1,890 km1,174 miabout 1,175 mi planned. A check value, not measured from the track.

Short name

MST-NC

Record ID

mountains-to-seaStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured

YesThe track was downloaded and measured

Published

1,890 km1,174 mi

Measured

1,923.0 km1,195 migeodesic, from the track

Difference

+1.7%measured minus published

Parts

9pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

The foot track (ways with a highway tag) gives 1,923.0 km, +1.7% over 1,890 km. The Neuse and Yadkin river paddle route and the Cedar Island ferry (377.2 km, ways with no highway tag) are in alternates.geojson. The earlier +21.7% counted the paddle route as foot track. line.osm still holds the whole relation as served.

Source and licence

Track in this dataset

line.geojsonThe main track file of the record

Source status

OpenStreetMap onlyThe only source is an OpenStreetMap route relation

Publisher

North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation; Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)

Source

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1395404Where to ask for the track: a layer or relation page

Track source

OpenStreetMap

Format

OpenStreetMap relation, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract

Main track

OSM 1395404 (network nwn) plus 24 segment relations. A state source was not found in this pass.How the main track 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 track to be passed on

OpenStreetMap only

YesOpenStreetMap is the only source of the included track

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 it changesHow to tell whether the source has a newer release

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 track included here is from OpenStreetMap, relation 1395404.

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

OpenStreetMap

Relation

1395404

Note

Downloaded 2026-11-08; release.txt has the relation version and timestamp.

Logo

Status

Logo in useThe trail has a logo

Holder

Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail

Taken from

https://mountainstoseatrail.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MST-white-logo.png

File

shield.png

Note

The Friends' own mark, from its site: the ridge line, surf and 'Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail / North Carolina', 217x111 PNG. The site serves this standing mark in white on a transparent ground; it may need a plate behind it on the map.

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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