Parks and Recreation

Provide quality park and recreation experiences for current and future generations.

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Take a geospatial approach to parks and recreation

Location-based park and recreation software helps staff maintain safe recreational assets, and real-time updates support quick responses to changes in their status. With GIS, leaders can measure and visualize the economic impact of parks and outdoor recreation and communicate their benefits to stakeholders.

Plan, manage, and monitor parks and outdoor recreation using GIS technology.

Protect natural and cultural resources

Staff can use GIS capabilities to catalog and track natural and cultural resources and ensure their protection before, during, and after recreational development and maintenance.

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Support licensing, education, and outreach

Location-based software helps land managers understand licensing trends, target educational activities, and conduct outreach on priority initiatives.

Recreational License Dashboard

Improve asset management

With GIS software, outdoor recreation managers can prioritize and plan capital projects, track their progress, and improve trail management to promote staff and visitor safety in parks, on trails, and in other recreational outdoor spaces.

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Assess economic impact

Parks and outdoor recreation are important economic drivers for communities. With GIS, staff can conduct economic impact analysis and visualize this across space and time. Location-based insights show who benefits and how agencies can optimize investments in parks and outdoor recreation across a region.

A dashboard displaying revenue, visitation, and capital construction data for different parks

Brochure

Parks and Recreation for the Next Generation

Explore how GIS can be applied to specific park operations and real-world examples of GIS in action at parks.

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Products and solutions

  • ArcGIS Velocity

    Easily consume, visualize, and analyze streaming data in real time from sensor networks within the Internet of Things (IoT).

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  • ArcGIS Hub

    Work together with internal and external stakeholders to track progress, improve outcomes, and create vibrant communities.

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  • ArcGIS Insights

    Quickly aggregate data on a map to reveal hot spots and outliers; make predictions; and show relationships between people, places, and events.

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  • ArcGIS Field Maps

    Use this mobile solution to capture data, perform inspections, take notes, and share information with the office.

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  • Recreation Outreach

    Increase participation in outdoor activities and understand recreation license trends. 

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  • Parks and Grounds Management

    Inventory park assets, understand asset conditions, and communicate changing asset conditions that impact park services.

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