Designated trailShortHeld

West Coast Trail WCT

Parks Canada, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve · British Columbia, Canada

Published length: 75 km47 mi
Measured track: 75.9 km47.2 mi+1.2% against published
Track: Record onlyThe reason is given below
Tier: ShortA well-known multi-day trail of 60 to 80 km

Record only

No track in this dataset

OSM relation: 229 main ways, 1 part, 75.9 km (+1.2%). The 28 'alternative' ways are separate, good for mainline versus alternate.

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

The source

No map is drawn: the dataset holds no track 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: Parks Canada, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Tier: ShortA well-known multi-day trail of 60 to 80 km
Listing: HeldListed, but something about it is not settled. The record has no note saying what.
Where: BC (British Columbia), Canada
Published length: 75 km47 mi75 km published. A check value, not measured from the track.
Short name: WCT
Record ID: west-coast-trailStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured: YesThe track was downloaded and measured

Published: 75 km47 mi
Measured: 75.9 km47.2 migeodesic, from the track
Difference: +1.2%measured minus published
Parts: 1pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

Within 15% of the published length Beyond 15%: the record must say why

OSM relation: 229 main ways, 1 part, 75.9 km (+1.2%). The 28 'alternative' ways are separate, good for mainline versus alternate.

Source and licence

Source status: OpenStreetMap onlyThe only source is an OpenStreetMap route relation
Publisher: Parks Canada (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)
Source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6955341
Format: OpenStreetMap relation, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract
Main track: OSM 6955341, with 28 'alternative' member ways kept apart from the main ways. Parks Canada's open Trails layer (Open Government Licence - Canada) does not hold this trail (1,349 features, a handful of parks).How the main track is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails
Licence: ODbL 1.0
Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)The credit line to show, as the source asks
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 6955341.

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

OpenStreetMap

Relation: 6955341
Note: Verified.

Logo

Logo not included. No logo or shield policy found. Treat as the maintaining organisation's mark.

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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Edit this recordThe record file (trail.toml) on GitHub
HistoryChanges to this record on GitHub

Every field of the record, with its exact value

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

Field	Value
`id`	west-coast-trail
`name`	West Coast Trail
`short_name`	WCT
`country`	CA
`regions[0]`	BC
`length_km`	75
`length_note`	75 km published
`tier`	short
`designation`	Parks Canada, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
`wave`	held
`source.status`	osm-only
`source.publisher`	Parks Canada (publishes the trail; no open geometry found)
`source.url`	https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6955341
`source.discovery`	osm-relation-version: Overpass `rel(ID); out meta;` (version and timestamp), or the Geofabrik replication diff; fetch again when it changes
`source.format`	OpenStreetMap relation, read through Overpass or a Geofabrik extract
`source.crs`	EPSG:4326
`source.licence`	ODbL-1.0
`source.licence_text`	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 6955341.
`source.attribution`	OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
`source.osm_only`	true
`source.mainline`	OSM 6955341, with 28 'alternative' member ways kept apart from the main ways. Parks Canada's open Trails layer (Open Government Licence - Canada) does not hold this trail (1,349 features, a handful of parks).
`source.source_checked`	2026-11-08
`source.redistributable`	true
`source.line_source`	none (no line included)
`source.line_file`	""
`source.line_absent_reason`	No track is included. OSM relation: 229 main ways, 1 part, 75.9 km (+1.2%). The 28 'alternative' ways are separate, good for mainline versus alternate.
`osm.relation`	6955341
`osm.note`	Verified.
`shield.status`	use-real-logo
`shield.logo_source`	https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/pacificrim
`shield.contact`	Parks Canada
`shield.note`	No logo or shield policy found. Treat as the maintaining organisation's mark.
`shield.logo_file`	""
`shield.logo_owner`	Parks Canada
`verification.verified`	true
`verification.date`	2026-11-08
`verification.measured_km`	75.9
`verification.difference_percent`	1.2
`verification.parts`	1
`verification.note`	OSM relation: 229 main ways, 1 part, 75.9 km (+1.2%). The 28 'alternative' ways are separate, good for mainline versus alternate.