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Add a trail to the map

The Tennessee Hiking Club is built by the people who hike it. Every trail lives as a small, reviewed file in our open-source repository, so anyone can add a favorite. Know a trail we are missing? Here are two ways to put it on the map.

Quickest

Suggest a trail

Fill in the New Trail form with the name, region, and a rough location, and a maintainer will take it from there. No git required.

Open the new-trail form

For contributors

Open a pull request

Comfortable with git? Add the trail yourself and get credited as a contributor:

  1. Fork the repository and create a branch.
  2. Add a Markdown file in content/trails/ with the trail front-matter: name, region, coordinates, length, difficulty, a photo, and a short summary.
  3. Run pnpm validate:content to check it against the schema.
  4. Open a pull request. CI validates the data and a maintainer reviews it.
Read the contributing guide

Please hike responsibly and practice Leave No Trace. Only add trails that are open to the public, and leave fragile or sensitive spots off the map.