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trailhead

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Other forms: trailheads

A trailhead is the place where a walking route begins. Park at the trailhead.

It is where the car park, the sign and the last lavatory are, in that order of importance. A trailhead in America is a marked facility where a British path simply starts at a gate.

Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0

Definitions of trailhead

  1. 1nountrailheadThe place where a walking route begins.B2

    “The trailhead was full by seven on any fine Saturday.”

trailhead is a place.

Where it comes from

Trail plus head; the word is American and reflects a system where routes are formally named and signed from a starting point.

From trail + head.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Camping & Outdoors

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trailhead in the wild

  • A trailhead is the point where a trail begins or is accessed, where the trail is often intended for hiking, biking, horseback riding, or off-road vehicles.

    Trailhead

  • Modern trailheads often contain restrooms, maps, signposts, and distribution centers for informational brochures about the trail and its features and parking areas for vehicles and trailers.

    Trailhead

  • The trailhead is accessible from Interstate 80, with two parking lots (an Appalachian Trailhead lot and auxiliary lot).

    Mount Tammany

  • The Los Gatos Creek Trail trailhead is located about a block away from the station The station has a single center platform between two tracks.

    Bascom station

  • Starvation Creek has a small waterfall and a trailhead for hiking.

    Starvation Creek State Park

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.