New research is the first to shed light on the gap between official trail listings and actual trail counts in the southern Rocky Mountains, suggesting the growing number of backcountry users may have a bigger impact than expected. It concluded that processing 50 different datasets from Alberta and British Columbia, covering more than 50,000 kilometers of trails and roads, showed that nearly a quarter of trails in these regions do not appear on official maps.…
"Nearly one-quarter of trails in southern B.C., Alberta unmapped and unmanaged: study"