High-Use Recreation Areas

A recreation site is a discrete area on a National Forest that provides recreation opportunities, receives recreational use, and requires a management investment to operate and/or maintain to standard under the direction of an administrative unit in the National Forest system. Recreation sites range in development from relatively undeveloped areas, with little to no improvements (Development Scale 0 and 1), to concentrations of facilities and services evidencing a range of amenities and investment (Development Scale 2 through 5). Recreation opportunities are point locations of recreational site activities available to visitors and populates the Forest Service websites and the interactive visitor map. See Metadata

Data and Resources

[WMS] High-Use Recreation AreasWMS
Web Map Service (WMS) endpoint providing visualization capabilities for...
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[WFS] High-Use Recreation AreasWFS
Web Feature Service (WFS) endpoint for High-Use Recreation Areas
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[DATA] High-Use Recreation Areasgdb
Zipped file containing the gdb file and associated metadata for High-Use...
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Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	July 6, 2025, 00:35 (UTC)
Created	July 6, 2025, 00:35 (UTC)
category	/Operational Data Layers/Administrative
collection_name	California Landscape Metrics
creation_method	See Metadata
data_units	Tabular attributes
data_vintage	01/2023
element	Administrative
file_name	RECCREAACTVITIES_V_2023.shp
format	gdb
metric_definition_and_relevance	A recreation site is a discrete area on a National Forest that provides recreation opportunities, receives recreational use, and requires a management investment to operate and/or maintain to standard under the direction of an administrative unit in the National Forest system. Recreation sites range in development from relatively undeveloped areas, with little to no improvements (Development Scale 0 and 1), to concentrations of facilities and services evidencing a range of amenities and investment (Development Scale 2 through 5). Recreation opportunities are point locations of recreational site activities available to visitors and populates the Forest Service websites and the interactive visitor map.
source	USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
spatial	{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-0.0011144128410574437, 0.00029385140730818553], [-0.0010455932395177028, 0.00029385140730818553], [-0.0010455932395177028, 0.0003780251036012669], [-0.0011144128410574437, 0.0003780251036012669], [-0.0011144128410574437, 0.00029385140730818553]]]}
sub_collection_name	Operational Data Layers