 Butterfield Overland Despatch Markers
by:  Smoky Hill Trail Chasers To locate and document the condition of the BOD (Butterfield Overland Despatch) markers set by Howard C. Raynesford in the mid 1960's to mark the trail of David A. Butterfield's stage line. There were originally 138 markers set on the 220 miles of the route between Fort Ellsworth (Fort Harker) and the Kansas/Colorado state line.
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 Abandoned Train Tunnels 
by: Abandoned Train Tunnel Managers In the decline of the railroad industry, many railpaths have been dismantled, often leaving tunnels through hillsides abandoned. Some have been nearly forgotten, others have been reborn for new uses such as a rails to trails pathway. Whatever the condition, as long as the tunnel is no longer active, it can be listed here. |
 Exceptional Tree Growth Ring Displays
by: Dendrochronologists This category is to find and document all Tree Growth Ring Displays. These are often found along trails,in Nature Centers, Visitor's Centers, or museums and are often used as teaching aids or part of an educational display. |
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 Natural Springs
by: Natural Spring Watchers This category is set-up to explore the beauty of free flowing Natural Springs. Along the trail, in a park, on the farm, wherever springs can be accessed by the public. Allows us to share in their beauty. |
 Railroad Bridges
by: Railroad Bridges This waymark category is for the waymarking of either active or inactive railroad bridges of any type. The railroad bridge can currently have other uses and still be waymarked here (i.e. rails-to-trails, resurfaced for other vehicles to use).
UPDATE: Naming Convention Added 8-2013 |
 Plank Roads
by: Plank Roads Category Managers The original idea for wooden Plank Roads came from Russia to Canada in the 1830’s and became, for a short time, a popular method of road construction spreading, in the 1840’s, to the US. Some disappeared, others are now just trails, many became paved roads but in many cases the name stuck and you can still find signs to indicate that the road was once a "Plank Road" |
 U.S. 40 - The National Road
by: National Road Managers U.S. Route 40 stretches 3,022 miles across the United States. It consists of several different roads and projects which, over the years, have added up to create the present day highway. This category is to mark historical locations and pieces of Americana along this road. |
 Way of St. James
by: By the Way The Way of St. James is a large network of ancient pilgrim routes stretching across Europe and coming together in Santiago de Compostela that exists since the ninth century.
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 Letters on Hills
by: Large Letters This category is for marking large letters or entire words on hills or mountains, where the letters are visible from a great distance away on earth. |
 Ancient Traces and Roads
by: Ancient Traces Many ancient migratory paths of buffalo and other grazing mammals served as the basis of some of our current routes. Aboriginal people would often use the paths to hunt these same animals, as well as to travel throughout their territories. Early military expeditions and explorers took advantage of the existing routes to travel into the wilderness. Settlers also used these same paths to travel into the new territories. Eventually many of these became the basis of our modern roads. |
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 Out of Place Graves
by: Out of Place Graves This category is for those Graves that just don't belong where they are found. For instance it could be a Confederate General buried in the North or it could be a single grave in the middle of a residential neighborhood, they just don't belong there. |
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 Massachusetts Historical Markers
by: MassManagers Massachusetts has a long, storied history, from the heyday of the Native American tribes up until today. Historical markers abound in this state, documenting the tales that have taken place in this land. |
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 Cycling Routes
by: CyclingNode-maintainers Numbered nodes where Cycling Routes intersect.
The category is meant for all Cycling Routes using any numbered system to identify the different routepoints in the world.
Genummerde Fietsknooppunten waar fietsroutes elkaar kruisen. |
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 Lonely Chimneys
by: Chimney Hunters Lonely chimneys are located all over the world. This category is to log those chimneys and your knowledge of or guess as to what the history of this location is. |
 U.S. Route 99 - The Pacific Highway
by: U.S. 99 Road Trippers U.S. Route 99 ran from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada and was the major north/south highway for the West Coast of the United States for decades. This category seeks to waymark the unique pieces of Americana and history that still lie along this long ago supplanted route. |