Last updated: February 23, 2024
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National Historic Trails Places Assets
The National Trails Office Regions 6, 7, 8, (NTIR) offers a variety of interpretive digital media opportunities to help share your trail site and history with the public. The first step in the process of partnering on interpretive digital media is a Places asset created for your trail site. Once created, the places asset is shared on NPS.gov (the National Park Service trail websites) and the NPS app.
Places Asset
A National Historic Trails Places Asset is a type of webpage on NPS.gov that is created to share about a trail site.
- www.nps.gov/places/TrailSiteName
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Shares your site on the National Park Service websites (NPS.gov) and to millions of digital visitors everyday
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Shares your site on the National Park Service app
- Shares correct information to the public about how to visit your site
- Includes your site in trip itineraries
- Offers a variety of opportunities to share your site digitally and accessibly
- Audio Description for exhibits
- Videos
- More in-depth Historical Content (articles)
- Digital Exhibits
- Recreation Information & Maps
Contact the National Trails Office, Regions, 6, 7, 8, Digital Media Specialist (Emily_Kessler@nps.gov) and provide the following information about your site.
Please provide as much of the following information as possible:
- Site Name & Associated National Historic Trails
- Location (physical address and/or latitude & longitude)
- Significance to the trail (in 1 - 2 sentences)
- Special Designations (Examples. Certified Site, National Register Listing, State Historic Site, etc.)
- Open to the public, yes or no (please provide information if no)
- Site Manager
- Site Website
- Listing Description (will display to entice folks to click to see the full page; 400 characters)
- Amenities (Examples. Restrooms, picnic tables, parking, etc.)
- Page Main Content (how is the site significant to the trail? trail history? how can people visit? what is there to see? 3,000 characters)
- Physical Description (this is a description of what the site looks like for someone who is using a screen reader and does NOT appear on the actual webpage 5,000 characters)
- Anything else?