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Regional Outdoor Gateway

Broader access to regional trails, National Park Service units, mountain scenery, and ski areas scores higher.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Regional Outdoor Gateway rewards places that sit near a broader outdoor region, using wider-radius trails plus National Park Service access, mountain views, and ski access.

  1. 1

    Regional trail raw presence uses a 100-mile radius and 20-mile half-life, then converts to an unweighted place percentile.

  2. 2

    The final score is 35% Regional Trail Access, 25% Regional National Park Access, 25% Mountain Views, and 15% Ski Access.

  3. 3

    Regional National Park Access uses the same NPS raw presence as National Park Access, but ranks it by unweighted place percentile for candidate-place comparisons.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Regional Outdoor Gateway.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Regional Outdoor Gateway rewards places that sit near a broader outdoor region, using wider-radius trails plus National Park Service access, mountain views, and ski access.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Regional trails

    Distance-decayed mapped trail, hiking, biking, and mountain-bike places in a wider surrounding area.

    Source: Overture Places
  • National Park Service access

    Nearby NPS units, weighted toward larger, scenic, and iconic natural units.

    Source: Published score components
  • Mountain views and skiing

    Published Mountain Views and Ski Access components when available; missing values are treated as neutral 50s.

    Source: Published score components

Source Data

Source: Overture PlacesMapped point-of-interest records used for amenities and outdoor recreation.Source: USGS Geographic Names Information SystemDomestic named terrain features such as summits, ridges, ranges, cliffs, pillars, and gaps.
Source: USGS 3DEP Elevation servicesElevation samples used for place elevation, feature elevation, and relative-relief calculations.
Source: OpenSkiMap and OpenStreetMap ski-area dataOperating U.S. downhill ski areas with mapped runs, lifts, and elevation statistics.
Source: Published score componentsAlready-published Places component scores reused as inputs to a composite score.

Known Limits

  • This is a gateway proxy, not a drive-time or route-planning model.
  • Mapped trail coverage varies and can miss informal, official-but-unmapped, seasonal, or backcountry trailheads.
  • It does not measure road closures, permit systems, crowds, snowpack, smoke, safety, or whether the nearby destination matches a specific activity.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Regional Outdoor Gateway.

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