A project where I remade Monroe County's Lehigh Valley Trail Park map to make it more useful compared to what is currently available. This new, updated map makes it easy for trail goers to determine trail distances between roads, find parking, plus locate points of interest along the trail.
Closeup view of the Mendon portion of the trail, showcasing many trail features represented by pictograms.
The back of the map features simple explanation of trail rules, as well as an illustrative visual on what can and cannot be done on the trails.
The back of the map also features distances between each road,
Development
What's Currently Offered
The Monroe County Parks Department currently offers a map of the trail online, but while the trail is mapped, the map feels a big vague on what's present, and may be a bit hard to read.
The current map that is offered. On it, it's a bit difficult to clearly names of the flags (parking access points), and fails to indicate what services are provided at such parking access points.
Field Research
To ensure accuracy of the map, I explored the entirety of the Lehigh Valley Trail within Monroe County during the month of May and noted everything from notewory signage, to a simple bench along the trail.
Bench on the South to North Portion of the Trail
County Line Marker
Picnic Table on the Genesee Valley Greenway Trail
Benches near a pavilion in Rush
Picnic Table and Bench at Rochester Junction
Picnic Tables at Rush near a parking lot.
Familiarity
Almost all pictograms used are used by the National Park Service, as well as the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. This strategic choice ensures that users can easily and intuitively understand their meanings, and give a professional look. Custom made picograms still have a sense of familiarity.
The pictograms used in the map
Accessibility
This map is designed with accessibility in mind, ensuring users who have common colored-blindness such as protanopia and deuteranopia are still able to tell the colors of each trail, as well as tell apart from a road and a trail.
Trail map with Protanopia vision shown (pictograms removed).
Trail map with Deuteranopia vision shown (pictograms removed).
Download
You can download this map for personal use! See document on page two for what you can and cannot do. Please be aware that this document is 8.5 x 14 inches, so it won't print kindly on standard letter size paper.
For a version featuring metric units (or both imperial and metric), please contact Thomas! Images below provide a sample of the different versions.
Imperial Units
Metric Units
