Dispersed Camp Permitted 05/23/2017

Dispersed camping is permitted on Nebraska state wildlife and fishing lands, except fish hatcheries which require permission as of 05/23/2017.  Pursuant to:

1) http://www.sos.ne.gov/rules-and-regs/regsearch/Rules/Game_and_Parks_Commission/Title-163/Chapter-2.pdf

2) http://www.sos.ne.gov/rules-and-regs/regsearch/Rules/Game_and_Parks_Commission/Title-163/Chapter-4.pdf

Camping Data Finished for ADT-KS & NE

I skipped ahead and completed the camping/ lodging data for Kansas and Nebraska.  Now, I've heard that the South Mid-West Route (SMR) is the most popular amongst American Discovery Trail thru adventurists (including hikers).  But just using a scale legend and as far as I see, a trip through Kansas would require two 30 mile routes, maybe three.  From from what I'm seeing in Nebraska, it's only one.  In either state, those would constitute camping/ lodging "amenity gaps" because of insufficient logistics by the current standards that I use.  But those standards have never had to route through places like Iowa and Kansas before.  The only way to really make that declaration is to write one of my mock hiker documents.

And there's another factor that might play out in Kansas' favor.  It's another thing I don't know without having done a mock hiker is that the SMR might be shorter?  If that is so, considering the Rockies afterward, it could even Kansas' playing field with Nebraska, or make it a more superior option?

Mapping Camping - ADT - Nebraska, Kansas & Missouri

As a continuation of yesterday, I'm overlaying state reservation maps I'm Nebraska on the American Discovery Trail's North Midwest Route (NMR), then I'll start coming around on the southern route.

I'm on Nebraska now. And unlike Iowa, they have PDF maps, but they're not the easiest thing to find. You have to expand their camping bar and that's where I'm finding them.

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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.