On: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

[sytelus]

Tried out several popular hikes in Washington and didn't find any. Almost every state has outdoor organization which maintains trail list. You should consider scrapping them and seeding your site (I believe most sites are open & nonprofit). For Washington, it's wts.org.

[zakn → sytelus]

Funny thing. I actually have a scraper for wta - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/blob/master/scripts/scr...

I haven't seeded production with it yet because I was a bit unsure on whether that was ok to do. Maybe I should send them an email...

[coldpie → zakn]

Minnesota has Scientific and natural areas ("SNAs"). They're listed online, but I don't know if they're easily scrapeable.

I think scraping stuff like this would be a good start to get an initially useful set of data started. I know I'd love a better map for SNAs.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/snas/index.html

[ejain → sytelus]

Typo? wta.org