We are pleased to announce the trails, trailheads, parking areas and canoe launch sites in Saratoga County have been mapped and are available on-line in a variety of ways:
1. Link to NYS GIS Clearinghouse for use with Google Maps
Look fo rthe Saratoga County Trails kmz file (at bottom). Right click on "other" button.
Click on "copy shortcut" in the drop-down box, then open Google Maps and paste the shortcut
you just copied into the search bar of Google Maps. Zoom in, out, or pan to focus in the area you
want to view. This can be used as a quick way to get directions to a trail's parking location or trailhead.
You can also get a pop-up box of information on the trail by clicking on the trail.
2. Link to NYS GIS Clearinghouse for use with Google Earth
download and SAVE .KMZ file to your computer for use with Google Earth
(If you do not already have Google Earth installed, click HERE to download and install.)
Open your .KMZ file. Google Earth should then open automatically and zoom to Saratoga County.
You can turn different layers on and off by expanding the "Layers" tab in the "Places" table on
the left side of the screen. To see a trail's slope and elevation change, right mouse click on a trail
and select "show elevation profile".
3. Link to Saratoga County GIS Site
click on Parks and Recreation in map layers to view the layers and turn them on, then
zoom in and use the identify tool to select a trail for more information about its uses,
surface, management, etc.
or
4. Link to NYS GIS Clearinghouse for use with your own GIS or ArcGIS Explorer
download GEODATABASE or SHAPEFILE for use with your own GIS (or click here to
download and install AcrGIS Explorer, a free program that will allow you to view either of these files).
You can use the Query feature in this program to find trails of a certain type of those that
allow certain uses.
