Open data, CC0

National Forest trailheads

One row per trailhead in the Forest Service Recreation Opportunities layer, with the season the forest publishes and the trails on this site whose line passes within a third of a mile. Points whose name contains trailhead are included even when the layer files them under another activity.

Download trailheads.csv3,654 rows · data refreshed September 17, 2026

Columns

recarea_id
Forest Service recreation area id
name
Trailhead name as published
forest_code
Four-digit forest organization code
forest_name
Forest name as published with the point
lat
Latitude, WGS84
lon
Longitude, WGS84
season_start
Open season start as the forest writes it, often a season name rather than a date
season_end
Open season end
status
Open status as published
official_url
Forest Service recreation page for the point
trails
Slugs of trails on this site within a third of a mile, semicolon separated; blank when none has a page

The first 8 rows

recarea_idnameforest_codeforest_namelatlonseason_startseason_endstatusofficial_urltrails
41862Buckhorn Day-Use Area0501Angeles National Forest34.345787-117.921533openhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41862
41854Devil's Canyon Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.323722-118.003294openhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41854
41974East Fork Day Use Parking Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.236944-117.764166temporarily closedhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41974east-fork-trail-0501
41808Heaton Flats Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.241096-117.761769temporarily closedhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41808east-fork-trail-0501;heaton-flats-trail-0501
41874Inspiration Point Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.371666-117.709722temporarily closedhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41874pct-wright-mt-to-inspiration-p-0501;pct-grassy-hollow-0501
41852Islip Saddle Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.35676-117.850636openhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41852pct-dawson-saddle-0501;high-desert-nrt-south-fork-0501
41812Islip Wawona Trailhead0501Angeles National Forest34.319082-117.844704openhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41812islip-ridge-trail-0501
41888Mt. Baden Powell via Vincent's Gap0501Angeles National Forest34.373611-117.751388temporarily closedhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/angeles/recarea/?recid=41888pct-baden-powell-0501;high-desert-nrt-manzanita-0501;pct-grassy-hollow-0501

Source, license and citation

Sources: The US Forest Service Recreation Opportunities layer. The file is regenerated by the nightly pipeline that rebuilds this site, so it is never older than the pages that cite it. Method notes are on the methodology page.

License: CC0 1.0. Use it for anything, no permission or attribution needed. A link back helps other people find the source.

Suggested citation: "Trailhead Atlas open data, National Forest trailheads (September 17, 2026 snapshot), derived from US Forest Service layers and Wilderness Connect, trailheadatlas.com/data/trailheads/."

Other files: Named National Forest trails