WTA Washington Trails, Hike Details & Trip Reports

Scrape Washington Trails Association (wta.org) — the state's largest hiking guide — with four modes covering trail search, trail details, trail-level trip reports and report-level search. Pull all 4,278 hikes across 11 regions and 51 sub-regions, with length, elevation, coordinates, difficulty, access rules, parking passes, alerts and recent trail conditions. No account, cookies or proxy setup required.

What this actor does

• Four modes: searchTrails, getTrailDetails, getTripReports, searchTripReports
• Complete trail inventory: all 4,278 WTA hikes, 11 regions and 51 sub-regions, paginated in one run
• Hiking filters: region, sub-region, name/full-text search, features, dog policy, kid/wheelchair access, rating, votes, length, gain, high point, required pass, report recency and seven sort orders
• Map search: radius around a latitude/longitude or a south,west,north,east bounding box
• Real trip reports: trail-level report counts and latest dates, or a filtered feed from 288,600 reports with conditions, photos, highlights and helpful votes
• Detail enrichment: difficulty, parking pass, land manager, directions, closures and full description
• Dual units: miles/feet from the source plus derived kilometres/metres
• Empty fields are omitted — records never contain null, empty strings or empty arrays

Output per trail

• recordType — "trail"
• trailName, trailUrl, trailId, hikeUid, trailSlug
• region, regionName, subregionName
• lengthMiles, lengthText, lengthKm, routeType
• elevationGainFeet, elevationGainText, elevationGainMeters
• highPointFeet, highPointText, highPointMeters
• difficulty — Easy through Hard (detail mode or fetchDetails)
• rating, reviewCount — community rating and number of rating votes
• tripReportCount, lastTripReportDate, lastTripReportUrl
• features[] — Lakes, Waterfalls, Mountain views, Summits and other WTA tags
• latitude, longitude, distanceMiles (radius searches)
• parkingPass, passes[], landManager, directions
• alerts[], hasAlerts — closures and access warnings checked with the trail
• companions[], dogsAllowed, dogPolicy, kidFriendly, wheelchairAccess
• summary, description, imageUrl
• scrapedAt — ISO-8601 UTC timestamp

Output per trip report

• recordType — "tripReport"
• tripReportId, tripReportUrl
• trailName, trailUrl, trailId, hikeUid
• reportDate, region, regionName, subregionName
• author, authorUrl, authorBadges[]
• text, photoCount, imageUrl, photoUrls[]
• helpfulCount, features[]
• hikeType, trailConditions, roadConditions, bugs, snow
• warnings, scrapedAt

getTripReports returns trail records with tripReportCount, lastTripReportDate, lastTripReportUrl and a recentTripReports[] array containing each report's date, author, URL, warnings and optional text/tags when includeReportText is on.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	searchTrails	searchTrails, getTrailDetails, getTripReports or searchTripReports
searchQuery	string	–	Full-text search of hike descriptions (searchTrails, searchTripReports)
nameQuery	string	–	Match the hike name only (searchTrails, getTripReports, searchTripReports)
region	select	–	All Washington or one of 11 regions
subregion	select	all	Any of 51 sub-regions; also selects its parent region
features	array	[]	Require all selected trail features (searchTrails)
dogPolicy	select	any	any, allowed-on-leash or not-allowed
kidFriendly	boolean	false	Only kid-friendly trails
wheelchairFriendly	boolean	false	Only wheelchair-friendly trails
minRating	number	–	Minimum average rating (0–5)
minVoteCount	integer	–	Minimum number of rating votes
minLengthMiles / maxLengthMiles	number	–	Trail length range (miles)
minElevationGainFeet / maxElevationGainFeet	integer	–	Elevation gain range (feet)
maxHighPointFeet	integer	–	Maximum highest point (feet)
passes	array	[]	Keep trails requiring at least one selected pass
reportRecency	select	anytime	anytime, 30-to-90-days or 90-plus-days
sortBy	select	recently-updated	Recently updated, rating, difficulty, distance, gain, high point or name
latitude, longitude, radiusMiles	numbers	–	Radius search; all three are required together
boundingBox	string	–	south,west,north,east; takes priority over radius
trailUrls	array	[]	WTA URLs, /go-hiking/hikes/<slug> paths or bare slugs
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Add detail-page fields per trail
author	string	–	Report author username (searchTripReports)
tripDateFrom / tripDateTo	string	–	Report date range, YYYY-MM-DD
tripMonth	select	all	All months or January–December
hikeTypes	array	[]	Day hike, overnight, multi-night backpack, snowshoe/XC ski
reportFeatures	array	[]	Has photos, hiked by kids, hiked with a dog, work party
reportHighlights	array	[]	Wildflowers, fall foliage, ripe berries
trailConditions	array	[]	Good, difficult, bugs okay, snow free, snow on trail
roadConditions	array	[]	All vehicles, high clearance, impassable
fetchReportDetails	boolean	false	Open each report page for conditions and photo URLs
tripReportsPerTrail	integer	5	Recent reports per trail (getTripReports)
includeReportText	boolean	false	Attach text and tags to recent reports
maxItems	integer	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1–10,000)
proxyConfiguration	object	–	Optional override; the actor works without a proxy

Example: browse a region with hiking filters

{
  "mode": "searchTrails",
  "region": "Snoqualmie Region",
  "features": ["Waterfalls", "Lakes"],
  "minLengthMiles": 3,
  "maxLengthMiles": 10,
  "minRating": 4,
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: full details for specific trails

{
  "mode": "getTrailDetails",
  "trailUrls": [
    "https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/mount-si",
    "snow-lake-1"
  ]
}

Example: reports near a map point

{
  "mode": "searchTrails",
  "latitude": 47.4880,
  "longitude": -121.7231,
  "radiusMiles": 25,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: recent trip reports with conditions

{
  "mode": "searchTripReports",
  "region": "Snoqualmie Region",
  "tripDateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "reportFeatures": ["has-photos"],
  "fetchReportDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: report history for one trail

{
  "mode": "getTripReports",
  "trailUrls": ["https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/mount-si"],
  "tripReportsPerTrail": 10,
  "includeReportText": true
}

Use cases

• Trip planning — shortlist hikes by region, distance, gain, rating, dog rules and required pass
• Outdoor publishing — build a Washington hiking guide with descriptions, difficulty and photos
• Trail-condition monitoring — track recent reports, snow, road access and closure alerts
• Mapping and GIS — export trailhead coordinates for every trail that publishes a location
• Recreation research — compare trail density, length and elevation across 11 regions
• Trip-report analysis — study seasonality, highlights and helpful votes across 288,600 reports

FAQ

Is this affiliated with the Washington Trails Association? No. This is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly available pages on wta.org. It is not operated by or endorsed by WTA.

What is the difference between the four modes? searchTrails browses or filters the full trail database. getTrailDetails returns one complete record for each WTA URL or slug you paste. getTripReports returns trails with report counts, latest report dates and recent report metadata. searchTripReports returns individual reports from the global report feed.

How many trails and reports are available? WTA currently lists 4,278 hikes in 11 regions and 51 sub-regions. The global report feed contains about 288,600 reports. A full trail run returns the complete inventory; a full report run is capped by maxItems (up to 10,000 per run).

Why are lengthMiles, rating, coordinates or features missing on some trails? Roughly one fifth to one quarter of WTA records genuinely do not publish every field, and about 620 trails have no coordinates. Those fields are omitted rather than filled with guesses. Filters that need a missing length, elevation, rating, feature or coordinate exclude that record; WTA's own server-side filters enforce dog, kid and wheelchair access.

What is the difference between reviewCount and tripReportCount? reviewCount is the number of community rating votes behind rating. tripReportCount is the separate count of trip reports published for the trail.

How do I get coordinates, difficulty and access details? Set fetchDetails to true in searchTrails or use getTrailDetails. Search results already include coordinates and access attributes for the 85% of trails that publish them in WTA's map data; difficulty, parking pass, land manager, directions and alerts come from the trail page.

Do I need an account, cookies or a proxy? No. The actor uses public WTA pages and works without credentials or proxy setup. proxyConfiguration is an optional override only.

Why does a report search return different reports than a trail's report history? searchTripReports reads WTA's global report feed and applies report-level filters such as author, month, hike type and conditions. getTripReports reads each selected trail's own report history, which is the better choice when you care about one trail.

How current is the data? Each run reads the live WTA pages. Trail stats, report counts and report dates reflect the site at run time. Hikers post new reports continuously, so recent-report fields change from day to day.

Can I get every trail in one run? Yes. Run searchTrails with region set to All Washington and maxItems at least 4,278. Region-by-region runs work too if you want smaller batches.