Recreational Trails Map for Aspen, Colorado

This 18"x24" trails map features topographic shading matched with land cover, giving it a realistic, but readable feel.

The trails map features a wide range of recreation activities in the Aspen area.

Users can find a printed copy of the map around Aspen, or download a PDF from the City's web site.

GreenInfo's map cartography features a hillshade to define the terrain and the use of land cover data to show forest and other areas (including ski runs).

Client: City of Aspen, Colorado

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Aspen is a famous Colorado resort town nestled in a valley surrounded by incredible mountains. It has a large and actively used summer and winter trail system, but needed a good print map to help visitors and locals alike make good use of these resources. GreenInfo, as part of a related web project, was asked to create a new approach to their old trails map.

The City of Aspen is just under 10,000 residents, but it has world-class recreation around it. An older trail brochure was due for updating and at the same time, Pitkin County (within which Aspen is located) had commissioned GreenInfo to develop a web-based trail finder and mobile application (learn more about this project). The final map was refined using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and prepared as a publication-ready file.

The City of Aspen developed the flip side of the map and printed 40,000 copies to be distributed to city visitors.

Focus: Environment, Government Agencies, Recreation

Services: GIS Services, Communications, Publications, Maps, Cartography

Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Aspen, Colorado, Esri ArcGIS, parks, trails

Project Years: 2014

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Recreational Trails Map for Aspen, Colorado

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