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

id = "tahoe-yosemite-trail"
name = "Tahoe–Yosemite Trail"
short_name = "TYT"
country = "US"
regions = ["CA"]
length_km = 299
length_note = "186 mi, per the encyclopedia article"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (Thomas Winnett, 1970); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "Wilderness Press (publishes the route in the guidebook)"
url = "https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/"
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://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No track is included; the track is the book's maps."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "The route's track is in a bought guidebook, and no creator GPX was found. Get the track from the book The Tahoe–Yosemite Trail."

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

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

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

[route]
creator = "Thomas Winnett"
year = 1970
line_policy = "sold"
note = "From Meeks Bay on Lake Tahoe to Tuolumne Meadows, mixing maintained trail, road walks, unmaintained trail and cross-country. Winnett's book first appeared in 1970 and ran to five editions, the last in 1987; the route stayed unofficial."

[[guide]]
title = "The Tahoe–Yosemite Trail"
author = "Thomas Winnett"
access = "purchase"
url = "https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/"
format = "book; the publisher's Wilderness Press page, as the book's own page was not found"
publisher = "Wilderness Press"
isbn = "0-89997-084-2"