US Forest Service Trails MCP Connector for Claude

Give a bounding box as bbox "west,south,east,north" — for example "-119.3,37.4,-119.1,37.6" (longitudes are negative west of Greenwich, and west must be less than east) — or a latitude, longitude and radius_km, in which case a box is built around the point. radius_km defaults to 20 and caps at 200. A use filter keeps only segments managed for that mode: hiker_pedestrian, bicycle, e_bike_class1, e_bike_class2, e_bike_class3, pack_saddle, motorcycle, atv, fourwd, snowmobile, snowcoach_snowcat, snowshoe, xcountry_ski, motor_watercraft, nonmotor_watercraft. "Managed for" is stronger than "allowed": a bicycle-managed trail is one the forest looks after for cycling. Absent a use filter, wilderness and motorized trails are listed side by side, so for a planning question name the mode. Results are paginated and sorted longest first; the response says how many match in all. An empty result inside a National Park is expected — this layer is National Forest land only. List the National Forest trail segments that cross an area — every trail the Forest Service holds in a bounding box or around a point, optionally filtered to trails managed for one travel mode

Identify the trail by its trail number or by the objectid a listing returned; a number is what a forest publishes on its maps and signs. Several segments can share a number, and all of them come back, with the end-to-end length. Permitted uses are reported per segment because allowances can change along a trail — the bicycle-managed lower half and the wilderness upper half of one numbered trail are a real pattern. Geometry is included as a GeoJSON line unless include_geometry is false, which keeps the response small when only the attributes matter. The full record of one National Forest trail — surface, grade, tread width, accessibility, permitted uses, and the surveyed line of the trail itself

Accepts the same area inputs as find_trails_in_area: bbox "west,south,east,north", or latitude, longitude and radius_km. Development class runs 1, primitive, to 5, fully developed, and is the quickest read of how built a trail is — a class 1 trail is a route on the ground, a class 5 is a constructed path. Use this first to size an area up, then find_trails_in_area to see the trails. A profile of the National Forest trails in an area — how many segments, how many miles, and how they split between kinds, development classes and surfaces, without listing them

The forest records each mode separately, so the answer distinguishes a trail managed for a use from one that merely accepts it, and reports the season the allowance runs — a "06/15-10/31" window means the mode is a summer allowance, and "01/01-12/31" means year-round. Absent modes are genuinely absent, not missing data. Restrictions and discouragement are flagged when the forest set them. A trail can show different allowances per segment, which is why the response groups by segment. The record here is the national inventory; a local Motor Vehicle Use Map or a seasonal closure order can still narrow it, so confirm before driving somewhere on it. Which travel modes are allowed on one National Forest trail — hiking, horses, bicycles, each e-bike class, motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, skis and watercraft — with the season each allowance runs for

Matching is case-insensitive and looks for the term anywhere in the name, so a fragment is enough: "RAINBOW" finds "Rainbow Creek" and "Rainbow Connector". The answer is segments, not trails — one trail number can cover several segments, and that is why a number can appear more than once. Each row carries the trail number to hand to get_trail_details. This inventory covers National Forest System trails only; trails in National Parks and on other agencies' land are not in it. Find United States National Forest trails by name — search every trail in the Forest Service national inventory and return the matching trail segments