Your visitors come from all over the map. Public Lands Log shows you exactly where, turning the guest books, QR check-ins, kiosks, and trail counters you already have into one clear origin map, down to the small and unstaffed sites no official count ever reaches.
Boxes of paper sign-in sheets sitting in storage. The data is in there: names, hometowns, dates. But no one can tally it by hand.
LWCF, Federal Lands Access, NPS Challenge Cost Share. They all want visitor origin data, and right now you're guessing.
Trailheads, overlooks, and backcountry access points see thousands of visitors a year with no one there to record them. That visitation never shows up in any report.
Four ways to get visitor data in. One place to see it all.
Take a photo of any sign-in sheet with your phone. We read the handwriting and pull out names, hometowns, states, and dates automatically.
Put a tablet at your front desk. Visitors type their name and hometown when they walk in. That's it. The data goes straight to your dashboard.
Print a sign with a QR code. Visitors scan it with their phone to check in. No app to download, no staff needed.
Already have Eco-Counters, TRAFx, or other trail counters? Upload the CSV. The counts show up alongside everything else.
When you apply for LWCF funding, write an annual report, or commission an economic impact study, they ask the same question: who visits your site and where do they come from? This gives you the answer.
However your sites are organized, the data rolls up into one dashboard.
One location, like a heritage site, museum, or nature center. Scan your guest books, put a tablet at the desk, and see where visitors come from.
Multiple visitor centers, trailheads, and entry points. All the data from every location shows up in one dashboard.
A scenic or historic trail crossing multiple states, with partner-managed sites along the way. Each site collects its own data, and for the first time you can see visitation across the entire trail in one picture.
A state park system, city parks department, or recreation district. Compare visitation across dozens of sites, by location and season.
You don't have to figure this out on your own. We get on a call with your team, set up your visitor centers, and scan your first guest book pages together. You'll see real data on a map before the call is over.
Send us a guest book page, a trail-counter export, or just a list of your access points. We'll show you what the data looks like on a map.