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I've added several points of interest (1) Tiffin Bridge, (2)Wauseon, (3) Fraker Mill Covered Bridge, (4) intersection with trails in Oak Openings Metropark, but they don't look quite neat enough to me. I'm looking at some highway pages for some ideas. Has anybody in the world ever made a bike trail wiki page using the format of a highway, like Ohio_Turnpike#Exit_list or Ohio_State_Route_66#Major_junctions? Any help would be appreciated Threeowls (talk) 03:10, 3 April 2016 (UTC)Threeowls[reply]

I don't know of any articles having that much detail for a trail. Pacific Crest Trail#Notable locations strikes me as a reasonable balance between excessive detail and having a manageable number of interesting locations.

You could look through other trail articles to see if any have a good example of what you are considering. See the linked articles in Long-distance trails in the United States. —EncMstr (talk) 05:44, 3 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've created a chart to organize information, one that is similar to US and State Route charts, or the Ohio Turnpike. Conventions I've followed:

If the trail goes through a town, I included it in "Crossings," otherwise, if a town is close-by, I put it in notes.
If bathroom and parking facilities are right at the crossing, I put the symbols first in notes, otherwise, if they're in a town close-by, I put the symbols at the end of note remarks.
The eastern terminus is the starting mileage for both forks as calculated by the trail organization. I included only one Eastern terminus coordinate, so that the mapping function doesn't get too crowded. I included a coordinate where the trails fork in the South Fork portion of the chart.

A table expert could right justify the mileage decimal figures to make them look neater. I tried, and failed.

Threeowls (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I right justified the distance numbers, and added kilometer conversions as well. Oddly, you entered coordinates in decimal but were displaying them forced to degrees, minutes, seconds. I removed the format override (one can set some CSS for how to display); any particular reason for the override? —EncMstr (talk) 02:25, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I had just copied the previous format, when the only coordinates mentioned in the article were the 4 terminus points. Thanks for your good bit of fixing, and I really like how you split the miles and km. I just made a trail table for Kiwanis Trail in Adrian and will have to figure out how you did that. And see how you changed the coordinate thing too. Again, thanks, it looks much neater. Threeowls (talk) 02:44, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]