Rozkład przestrzenny oznakowania szlaków turystycznych w Babiogórskim Parku Narodowym – wyniki monitoringu prowadzonego przez SKNG UP w 2017 roku / Spatial distribution of tourist trails marking in Babia Góra National Park – results of SKNG UP monitoring

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The aim of the article is description of walking tourist trails’ marking monitoring in Babia Góra National Park (BGNP) as well as its immediate neighborhood (Fig. 1). The survey was conducted with measurement by using GPS items in October of 2017. As the result was established spatial database of trails’ and marking location (Fig. 2).

The signs on the trails in BGNP and its close neighborhood are distributed mostly up to 50 m distance from each other (Fig. 2). The average distance between signs is about 53,70 m. The parameter of distance between signs was researched using the GIS raster buffer tool (Fig. 4), while the density of the signs has been presented and analyzed using the heatmap tool (Fig. 5). It was found that some trails (Perć Akademików (Fig. 1), Perć Przyrodników (Fig. 1), trails above the tree line) are more often marked than others (Fig. 4, Fig, 5, Fig. 7). Greater distances between signs are on the trails beyond the BGNP border (Fig. 8), however the difference is statistically insignificant.

In the polish documentation of marking trails instructions the maximum distance between signs should be less than 200 m long. On the BGNP trails in 2017 there were 4 locations, and on the other researched area were 12 locations with more than 200 m distance between signs (Fig. 6). In the conculsions was indicated one trail, whose marking should be renewed before next tousim season (location of five segments with length above 200 m). It is the trail from Kolisty Groń to Mędralowa, out of BGNP in the north-west of study area.