Parks & Recreation Software | Trail Management & Outdoor Planning

Take a geospatial approach to parks and recreation

Location-based park and recreation software helps staff maintain safe recreational assets, and real-time updates support quick responses to changes in their status. With GIS, leaders can measure and visualize the economic impact of parks and outdoor recreation and communicate their benefits to stakeholders.

Plan, manage, and monitor parks and outdoor recreation using GIS technology.

Protect natural resources
Support licensing and outreach
Improve asset management
Assess economic impact

Protect natural and cultural resources

Staff can use GIS capabilities to catalog and track natural and cultural resources and ensure their protection before, during, and after recreational development and maintenance.

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Improve asset management

With GIS software, outdoor recreation managers can prioritize and plan capital projects, track their progress, and improve trail management to promote staff and visitor safety in parks, on trails, and in other recreational outdoor spaces.

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Assess economic impact

Parks and outdoor recreation are important economic drivers for communities. With GIS, staff can conduct economic impact analysis and visualize this across space and time. Location-based insights show who benefits and how agencies can optimize investments in parks and outdoor recreation across a region.

A dashboard displaying revenue, visitation, and capital construction data for different parks

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Parks and Recreation for the Next Generation

Explore how GIS can be applied to specific park operations and real-world examples of GIS in action at parks.

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Blog

Revitalizing Des Moines’s Trail System with GIS

Park planners in Des Moines developed a new audit and analysis strategy using GIS to address maintenance challenges on the city’s multiuse trails.

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Blog

Needleseye Park: Climbing Spot Forged with GIS

Using apps, imagery, and mobile apps to track the development and organization of the park provided greater transparency about its progress.

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Blog

State Parks Reach Real-Time Operational Awareness

Tennessee State Parks has embraced GIS technology to empower rangers, modernize park operations, and enhance conservation efforts.

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Industry blog

The Dynamic Role of Parks in Communities

GIS helps Chattanooga Parks with its vision to become “A City in a Park” and America’s first “National Park City.”

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Article

Digital Twin Helps Austin Manage Recreation Spaces

ArcGIS Indoors and digital twins help staff visualize, monitor, and track assets and people, leverage spaces, and plan staffing and renovations.

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Products and solutions

ArcGIS Velocity

Easily consume, visualize, and analyze streaming data in real time from sensor networks within the Internet of Things (IoT).

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ArcGIS Hub

Work together with internal and external stakeholders to track progress, improve outcomes, and create vibrant communities.

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ArcGIS Insights

Quickly aggregate data on a map to reveal hot spots and outliers; make predictions; and show relationships between people, places, and events.

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ArcGIS Field Maps

Use this mobile solution to capture data, perform inspections, take notes, and share information with the office.

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Recreation Outreach

Increase participation in outdoor activities and understand recreation license trends.

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Parks and Grounds Management

Inventory park assets, understand asset conditions, and communicate changing asset conditions that impact park services.

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Parks and Recreation

Take a geospatial approach to parks and recreation

Plan, manage, and monitor parks and outdoor recreation using GIS technology.

Protect natural and cultural resources

Support licensing, education, and outreach

Improve asset management

Assess economic impact

Parks and Recreation for the Next Generation

Revitalizing Des Moines’s Trail System with GIS

Needleseye Park: Climbing Spot Forged with GIS

State Parks Reach Real-Time Operational Awareness

The Dynamic Role of Parks in Communities

Digital Twin Helps Austin Manage Recreation Spaces

Products and solutions

ArcGIS Velocity

ArcGIS Hub

ArcGIS Insights

ArcGIS Field Maps

Recreation Outreach

Parks and Grounds Management

Environment and natural resources focus areas

Environmental Protection

Wildlife and Land Management

Parks and Recreation

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