The greatest miracle of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail is that it has not been built by a single agency or organization. While the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Committee helps with coordinating, advising, and planning, the trail is actually constructed and maintained by almost 100 separate agencies, including cities, counties, state and federal land owners, and community non-profit organizations. All of these have caught the vision of the BST and are working to build the segment of the trail in their backyard. It is a wonder that these dozens of essentially separate trails are connecting into a single 300+ mile regional trail.
To support that complex cooperative effort, the BST Committee, in concert with Trails Utah, The Trust for Public Lands, Kinesava Geographics, and the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation, are building this data library and planning toolbox as a common resource on which BST stakeholders and the public can rely for authoritative information about the Trail.
The library consists of several components (note that all of these are still under construction):
- BST Explorer, an interactive webmap of the current and planned BST, available to everyone interested in exploring this amazing trail.
- Stakeholder Trail Planning Map, an interactive webmap for stakeholders, containing more detailed information for cooperative trail planning.
- Media Library, a database of photographs, maps, legal documents, and news articles that tell the history of the BST, establish its legal status, and document future trail construction plans.
- GIS Data Warehouse, a collection of authoritative spatial datasets (most of which can be viewed on the web maps above) that stakeholders and the public can connect to or download for trail exploration, maintenance, planning, and analysis.
- BST Steward Directory, a list of contacts at each stakeholder agency who are responsible for the trail in their community, to help us stay coordinated and for residents to volunteer to help build and maintain the trail in their backyard.
Our goal is to make as much of this information available to the public as possible. However, some of it is only available to recognized representatives of stakeholder agencies, due to copyright restrictions and other sensitivities (for example, ongoing negotiations with private land owners). If you are at an agency involved in the BST, use the buttons below to get access: