High-Use Recreation Areas

A recreation site is a discrete area on a National Forest that provides recreation opportunities, receives recreational use, and requires a management investment to operate and/or maintain to standard under the direction of an administrative unit in the National Forest system. Recreation sites range in development from relatively undeveloped areas, with little to no improvements (Development Scale 0 and 1), to concentrations of facilities and services evidencing a range of amenities and investment (Development Scale 2 through 5). Recreation opportunities are point locations of recreational site activities available to visitors and populates the Forest Service websites and the interactive visitor map. See Metadata

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Last Updated July 11, 2025, 09:37 (UTC)
Created July 11, 2025, 09:37 (UTC)
category /Operational Data Layers/Administrative
collection_name California Landscape Metrics
creation_method See Metadata
data_units Tabular attributes
data_vintage 01/2023
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harvest_source_title WIFIRE Commons
metric_definition_and_relevance A recreation site is a discrete area on a National Forest that provides recreation opportunities, receives recreational use, and requires a management investment to operate and/or maintain to standard under the direction of an administrative unit in the National Forest system. Recreation sites range in development from relatively undeveloped areas, with little to no improvements (Development Scale 0 and 1), to concentrations of facilities and services evidencing a range of amenities and investment (Development Scale 2 through 5). Recreation opportunities are point locations of recreational site activities available to visitors and populates the Forest Service websites and the interactive visitor map.
source USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
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