Jane's Island State Park

Crisfield, Maryland

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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!!!! You can go to the official Janes Island web page and download the GPS waypoints for the six paddle trails around and through Jane's Island.


-Download the waypoints from this site. You can still do it if you want, but the official page has a lot more to offer.
- EasyGPS You need this free program to download the file to your computer.
- You may need a cable to download the data from your computer to your GPS. I got mine on ebay


Use your GPS for something besides paddling! Try the JANE'S ISLAND GPS ADVENTURE COURSE, a fifteen point, 2.4 mile land navigation course around the mainland portion of the Park. You can also get your guide brochure at the camp store.


Take a look at this site. With the GPS Visualizer, you can download the tracks from your day's paddling at Janes Island and make a map of your travels. This is the neatest thing I have seen in many a moon!

A photo of the whole Island, showing colored trails

The paddle trails in and around Janes Island are posted with aluminum signs. They are 12" x 18" and covered with a highly reflective film. Each trail now has not only a different color sign but a distinctive shape, as well, e.g.: red octagon with a white reflective slash, black diamond, yellow equilateral triangle, brown square, green circle, and blue quadrilateral.

The trails all now run from the Yellow Trail, north or south as the case may be, although you can certainly run it the other way if you wish. Just remember you will be paddling in the opposite way the directional arrows are pointing. There is a reason I can't (or didn't) have the arrows double ended: if you left the trail and then returned, you may not know which way you had been headed. This way, you were either going with the arrows or against them.

NOTE: These tracks and waypoints are now posted on the Maryland Park Service Website! We have had a lot of hits here, but the new posting enables many more people to download the paddle trail information.

Each color sign now has a one letter abbreviation along with a sequential number, e.g.: Black = B, Blue = U, and Brown = N (Red, Yellow, and Green have distinctive beginning letters anyway). You also may find that a number is skipped here and there. This is in the event it is necessary to add an extra sign.

Download the transfer file above and then upload it to your GPS. That way, even though you may never have paddled through the Park, you will be able to download waypoints, a simple trail map, etc. and use them in your GPS.

Using the EasyGPS program, you can view a map of the Island, including waypoints and trails. If you click on a waypoint, you can link to TerraServer and see an aerial view of that part of the Island.

Use at your own risk, computerwise, GPS-wise, and navigationwise.

Take a look at the Maryland Park Service's Jane's Island site. And while you're at it, look at all of Maryland's State Parks. It's an excellent idea to record the addresses of your favorite parks on your vehicle's GPS; it will likely be a big help when you head there on vacation. You can make your reservations online or by phone - the web site has the details.

Look it over and be familiar with it

This site is dedicated to Jane's Island but is not sponsored by either the Park or the Maryland Park Service

The dingy thing on the left is an old trail sign. They are all gone now.

Here is a photo of one of the new signs next an old one. You can see how much more effective the new ones are. (You may notice the arrows are pointing in opposite directions. The trail directions were changed because it was so difficult to find the far ends of the Red and Green Trails.)

http://www.angelfire.com/planet/jisp/Bylaws.doc

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