I submitted a TXT file to the Buckeye Trail Association's Facebook group regarding Townships, villages and cities that are on the route of the circuit. Much of the data was compiled using county maps that displayed townships and incorporated areas on the Wikipedia page for each county. Those images were overlaid and resized to fit the county boundaries on Google Earth.
This project was completed because the OTHR's cost analysis relies on property ownership data in Putnam, Paulding and Defiance Counties that is unknown. In order to get that information, I'll have to consult with the county engineer offices to make that determination. Right now, as far as I can tell, nobody in the BTA is sure about where on the Miami & Erie Canal Heel & Towpath trailside camping is permitted? And that's because Buckeye has the right to pass on some portions that the state doesn't have ownership of. Where it doesn't, camping is up to the owner.
In these areas, if the hiker can not trailside camp, then there may not be any other commercial amenities in range. And this is an area of the circuit that is without transit, probably it's biggest gap. I predict that there will opportunities to trailside camp within OTHR's 24.9mi limit for distance hikers. But right now, camping on this heel/ towpath outside of the designated limits for the Miami & Erie State Trail was brought up on Facebook over a year ago and there still isn't any resolution on it. And that's probably because nobody's had the time to drive out there and consult those public records yet. Looks like I'll be the first.
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