This dataset of the Monongahela National Forest Trails (also includes West Virginia State Forest Trails and Greenbrier River Trail) is based on GIS data available through the WV GIS Technical Center. It’s been converted to KML and edited to include trail names, numbers, and comment info (as available). The Monongahela NF trails data can be downloaded and displayed with Google Earth.
Download it here: MNF Trails Data as KML - 1.08 MB
MNF Trails dataset displayed on Google Earth
The act as passed by Congress and signed into law:
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With the signing of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, an additional 37,741 acres of the federal land managed by the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia has been given wilderness designation. Though the areas that received this designation have been previously managed for their recreational value, designating them wilderness affords them significant long-term protection.
Presented here in Google Maps are the wilderness areas of the MNF. Darker green areas are the Cranberry, Laurel Fork, Otter Creek, and Dolly Sods Wilderness Areas. The lighter green areas received new wilderness designation under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Subtitle A – Wild Monongahela Wilderness.
Sources: WVGIS Data, MNF Cranberry Wilderness Brochure, USFS series quadrangle maps, wvwild.org, Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 and referenced maps.
Topo map of the George Washington National Forest trail network along the Laurel Fork in Virginia. This area is accessed from Locust Springs Picnic Area and forest roads southeast of WV 28 and the Pocahontas – Pendleton county line.
Link to Laurel Fork, Virginia Topo
This USGS/USFS 1:24,000 series image was exported from National Geographic TOPO!.
