A "section" is a defined unit on the Buckeye Trail. It's broken up into 26 of them. They range from about 45 to 65 miles in length. In the beginning, the sections were divided at approximately 55 miles each. Over time, moving the trail off-road either increased, or decreased that mileage. Presently, I know that the Buckeye Trail Association (BTA) no longer has any official limits on total section lengths.
A subdivision of a section is "segment." They refer to trail adopter assignments. These are not very well known outside of BTA Headquarters, section supervisors and trail (maintenance) adopters. But they are on official record. And their sizes can vary much more. Ideally, a maintainer probably shouldn't have much more than 3 miles off-road, 10 miles canal and rail trail and 20 miles on-road. But if I section can get more volunteers, those numbers can be smaller. But on occasion, it could have a volunteer with more time to commit to the BTA than usual, or there could be a gap to fill, so maintenance could be larger?
I'd recommend that the best way to express the trail to others when one doesn't know the section or segment is to just refer to it as a "portion" or "trail portion." That unit is vague and not already in use officially.
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