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

id = "sea-to-sea-route"
name = "Sea-to-Sea Route"
short_name = "C2C"
country = "US"
regions = ["ND", "MN", "WI", "MI", "OH", "PA", "NY", "VT", "MT", "ID", "WA"]
length_km = 12513
length_note = "7,775 mi walked by Andrew Skurka; the route itself is described as a 7,800-mile network"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (Ron Strickland, 1996); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "Ron Strickland (publishes the route)"
publisher_url = "https://andrewskurka.com/adventures/sea-to-sea-route/"
url = "https://andrewskurka.com/adventures/sea-to-sea-route/overview/"
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://andrewskurka.com/adventures/sea-to-sea-route/overview/, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No track is included; the route is a network of published trails."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "The route is a network of existing published trails with no whole track of its own; no track or GPX for it was found. The overview page is where the route is described."

[osm]
relation = 0
note = "No route relation found when searched on 2026-11-10."

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

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

[route]
creator = "Ron Strickland"
year = 1996
line_policy = "open"
creator_words = "The Sea-to-Sea Route (C2C) is a 7,800-mile network of existing long-distance hiking trails that spans almost continuously between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the exception of an 800-mile gap in North Dakota and Montana along the Missouri River and a less formidable 30-mile gap in Vermont."
creator_words_url = "https://andrewskurka.com/adventures/sea-to-sea-route/overview/"
note = "A network of existing long-distance trails, with an 800-mile gap in North Dakota and Montana and a 30-mile gap in Vermont, joining the North Country, Pacific Northwest and other trails. Ron Strickland started thinking about it in 1996; Andrew Skurka made the first thru-hike from August 2004 to July 2005."

[[guide]]
title = "Sea-to-Sea Route overview and route description"
author = "Andrew Skurka"
access = "free"
url = "https://andrewskurka.com/adventures/sea-to-sea-route/overview/"
format = "web pages"

[[guide]]
title = "Great Western Loop and Sea-to-Sea Route Slideshows"
author = "Andrew Skurka"
access = "purchase"
url = "https://andrewskurka.com/product/slideshows-on-disk-great-western-loop-and-sea-to-sea-route/"
format = "slideshow on disk (not a route track)"