Traillink Rail Trail Directory Scraper

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Scrape the full TrailLink catalogue of paved, rail-trail, and accessible trails across all US states. TrailLink is the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's authoritative directory of ~40,000 trails, with a strong focus on paved, ADA-accessible, and converted rail corridors — a segment that AllTrails under-covers.

What it collects

For each trail the actor returns:

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How it works

1. Fetches https://www.traillink.com/sitemap-trails.xml — a flat XML sitemap listing all ~5,500 trail URLs
2. Filters to /trail/<slug>/ paths and caps to maxItems
3. Requests each trail page and parses the server-rendered HTML, extracting structured data from schema.org microdata attributes and labelled stat blocks

No proxy is required — TrailLink serves clean HTML to datacenter IPs with no bot challenge.

Use cases

• Accessibility planning — filter to Wheelchair Accessible trails by state or region
• Real estate analysis — enrich property listings with nearby paved trail proximity data
• Tourism & travel apps — build trail-discovery features with GPS coordinates and surface info
• Urban greenway research — study the distribution of rail-to-trail conversions by county

Sample output

{
"trail_name":"Little Miami Scenic Trail",
"state":"Ohio",
"city_region":"Cincinnati, OH",
"county":"Clark, Clermont, Greene, Hamilton, Warren",
"length_miles":77.7,
"surface":"Asphalt, Concrete",
"trail_uses":"Bike, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Inline Skating, Walking, Wheelchair Accessible, Cross Country Skiing",
"difficulty":"Rail-Trail",
"description":"The Little Miami Scenic Trail is a jewel in the crown of Ohio rail-trails, spanning nearly 78 miles...",
"trail_endpoints":"W Jefferson St & S Center St (Springfield) and Beechmont Ave, Otto Armleder Trail (Anderson)",
"parking_locations":"Springfield Trailhead (parking available) | Yellow Springs Trailhead | ...",
"rating":5,
"review_count":121,
"latitude":39.621094,
"longitude":-84.018967,
"trail_url":"https://www.traillink.com/trail/little-miami-scenic-trail/"
}