This R data package provides rail information about rail trails from the excellent TrailLink website, sponsored by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.
You can install railtrails from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jrosen48/railtrail")Here is how to load the data:
railtrails <- railtrails::railtrails
railtrails## # A tibble: 11,420 x 9
## state name distance surface
## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr>
## 1 AK Chase Trail 14.0 Dirt, Gravel
## 2 AK Tony Knowles Coastal Trail 11.0 Asphalt
## 3 AK Bird to Gird Pathway 13.0 Asphalt
## 4 AK Campbell Creek Greenbelt 7.5 Asphalt, Dirt
## 5 AK Chase Trail 14.0 Dirt, Gravel
## 6 AK Goose Lake Park Trails 1.5 Asphalt, Dirt
## 7 AK Homer Spit Trail 4.0 Asphalt
## 8 AK Lanie Fleischer Chester Creek Trail 3.9 Asphalt, Dirt
## 9 AK Palmer-Moose Creek Railroad Trail 6.1 Gravel
## 10 AK Ship Creek Trail 2.6 Asphalt
## # ... with 11,410 more rows, and 5 more variables: category <chr>,
## # mean_review <int>, description <chr>, n_reviews <chr>,
## # raw_reviews <list>You may want to “unnest” the list-column with reviews in the following way:
library(tidyr)
railtrails <- railtrails::railtrails
railtrails <- railtrails %>% unnest(raw_reviews)
railtrails## # A tibble: 73,059 x 9
## state name distance surface category
## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
## 1 AK Chase Trail 14.0 Dirt, Gravel Rail-Trail
## 2 AK Tony Knowles Coastal Trail 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 3 AK Tony Knowles Coastal Trail 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 4 AK Tony Knowles Coastal Trail 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 5 AK Tony Knowles Coastal Trail 11.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 6 AK Bird to Gird Pathway 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 7 AK Bird to Gird Pathway 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 8 AK Bird to Gird Pathway 13.0 Asphalt Rail-Trail
## 9 AK Campbell Creek Greenbelt 7.5 Asphalt, Dirt Greenway/Non-RT
## 10 AK Campbell Creek Greenbelt 7.5 Asphalt, Dirt Greenway/Non-RT
## # ... with 73,049 more rows, and 4 more variables: mean_review <int>,
## # description <chr>, n_reviews <chr>, raw_reviews <int>If you like using this package, please consider visiting or even making a donation to the Rails to Trails Conservancy at via https://www.traillink.com/.
Note that these data were last updated 2017-08-14 and so new trails and particularly reviews have likely been added since then. The R files at here can be used to create updated data. Pending the same permissions as indicated by the robots.txt file and terms of service for use of the TrailLink website, I will plan to update this package bi-yearly (so look for an update around 2018-02-18).
Thank you to Bob Rudis for feedback on an earlier version of this package.
I am interested in adding the trailhead location to the data; this can be done fairly easily using the Google Maps API but will take considerable time due to the number of trails. Contributions are welcome. Requests for features can be made on GitHub.