No State Forests Along ADT-IA

There are no state forests along the American Discovery Trail - Iowa.

The ADT turn-by-turns don't always reveal everything.  That's why I'm being as thorough with the camping/ lodging mapping as I can.  There could be a reason for this.  As the guides have been updated, at the time of their initial inception, either the Internet wasn't used, or it's information wasn't that good yet.  A Google search today wasn't as accurate as a Yahoo search in the 90's. Hypothetically, it's possible that nobody's done and "overhaul" of the turn-by-turn's logistics.  But, really... it would take skills that are more like mine to really pull that off.

  For those of you out there, keep reading through the logs here.  I don't want to keep this data to myself.  There is a comment area at the bottom of the page (I censor them btw).  I believe that it's open to the general public???

If you need to reach me on my personal Facebook profile, just know that I'm usually a little single minded about distance trail volunteerism and internal things.  When I'm not, I'm somewhat of a dark person.  We all just might just be better off if I just stick to the trails.

The way to reach me is in the American Discovery Trail's Facebook group.  Recently, I took a friend request from a stranger.  They private messaged me afterwards and were wanting to know how old I was and probably getting information to use in my password security questions.  I blocked them after the second question.  But I started chatting to begin with because I thought it was someone from the ADT?

If you need me on Facebook, be sure to write a PM stating that your an adventurist on the ADT, or a prospective one.

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I just finished tracking Iowa and Nebraska on the American Discovery trail.  As you see, I use red.  It's kind of an Ohio thing.  Buckeye and North Country's track colors are that of their blaze paint.  ADT doesn't blaze, so I just assigned them as red so that white can be reserved as the inverse color for by-passes and spurs.

For the ADT, I only have Ohio's done. And for the most part, BT/ NCT doesn't use them.  When an ADT adventurist has a question about the concurrency, they should contact Buckeye.  That's because Buckeye mostly administers the route there.  Trail maintenance is Buckeye only.  Buckeye has more many more volunteers.  There other examples as well.  But those bypasses are ADT only.  I don't suppose that BT people are going to know much about them.  And as for the ADT's Facebooks, another and myself are the only ones out here.  If a question occurs regarding those by-passes, we might be the only readily accessible people who'd know who'd know anything about them.  On Buckeye Trail's Facebook group, a question concerning these could arise.  In which case, they might need a translator (me).

So far, I've got everything between Delaware and the Denver area tracked.  I have no idea how big this loop is, yet?  I'm not planning on traveling it.  The next step is track the Western Region and then I'll be complete.  The second phase is to continue populating my camping/ lodging data.  Once that's done, I can write a mock hiker document, determine what it takes to get across the trail in 6 months and if there's any need for amenity improvements?  If there are, could public transit solve some of those issues?

The only place that I don't have any data for on this map is Clark State Forest on ADT Indiana's South Mid-West Route.