Trail Activity Types

Trailforks started with a mountain bike focus but expanded to support trails of many activity types. This allows trail associations that manage trails for multiple user groups to utilize Trailforks more effectively.

Trailforks decided to go the path of one app to rule them all, rather than creating separate apps for each separate activity. As many users switch often between activities and there is value from a navigation and mapping perspective in seeing other activities trails.

We need the help of locals and our awesome Trailforks contributors to map their trails of all usage types and to edit the existing trails adding info about what other activities a trail supports.

When you add or edit most entities on Trailforks there is a selection of activity types you can choose to specify what are the supported activities. Some entities like trails have an additional "primary activity" which gives us further info and can help style the trail differently on the map.

On most website maps there is an "Activity Type" drop-down selection, which will change the context you are viewing the map as. This will change the styling of the trails to match your activity. There is also a global site-wide activity type selection on the top of the website, which sets your default activity for the entire site and all the content.





ADDING TRAILS




EDITING TRAILS
If you are a region admin you have access to a tool ("bulk edit trail activity types") to bulk edit trails activity types in your region. This makes it much faster to update the trails in your region. Find a link to this on the admin page for a region.

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