Trail Numbering Questions, ETC

sherileeaz · Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 874

Does anyone know how a trail gets it's numbering?
Is there any reasoning regarding main trail numbers vs trails that form off of a main trail? For instance, someone thought that a 100 trail would be a main trail, whereas a 200 was a trail connecting.
To ask even further, who numbers a trail? I take it the trails are not like a highway where the even numbers go East and West, odd numbers are North and South. Can there be more than one #100 trail in a state, county? In other words, if I said to someone I'm hiking #103, that would not give them a clue where I'm hiking at correct?

As you know, I'm VERY new to hiking and rather than look through books and such, I'd prefer to ask all of you because most of you are VERY knowledgeable!!

THANKS!!

Sherileeaz Hiking

Daryl · Posted: 11/30/2003, 5:57 pm Post subject:

Good question. I have no clue, but I'm sure someone else does.
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ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

I think the person that numbers the trails is the same guy who numbers the forest roads.

I also think that he ate a lot of paint chips as a kid.
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Trishness · Posted: 11/30/2003, 6:12 pm Post subject:

HA HA HA

GOOD QUESTION Sheri!

It looks like the main trails from the major trailheads were always numbered in the 100's and the secondaries in the 200's. Dutchman #104, Peralta #103, Boulder Canyon #103.

For example......you have the Dutchman #104 off the major FW TH and off that you have Second Water Trail #236 and Black Mesa 241. It makes sense in a warped kind of way. OK who numbered the trails?

Mr. Green

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matt gilbert · Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Posts: 698 Location: Mesa

But it might be like they do the highways and freeways, odd numbers run north and south and the even numbers run east and west. Remember that only means that the start and finish points are east and west or north and south. Sometimes you can take an even number north or south and vice versa. I'm not sure about that, I suppose I could look...