Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
iceagefloodstrail.org is the public, interpretive home of the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail. This page gathers the project behind it: what it is, what it captures, how it is built, and who it is built with. For the public story, start at the main site.
The Ice Age Floods Institute has spent decades assembling the scholarship of the floods. This site is the immersive public front door for that work, surfaced to a national audience for the first time, with the 360° and photogrammetry layer IAFI’s existing platforms can’t host.
The official immersive public trail experience for the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail.
Storytelling, trip planning, deep site profiles, and an interactive map, built on top of IAFI’s data, fully attributed, with the immersive 360° / drone / photogrammetry capture layer added on by Terrain360.
Not a replacement for iceagefloods.org or iafi.org.
IAFI carries on as the scholarly authority, the membership organization, and the chapter network. This site funnels public traffic to IAFI, new members, new donors, new field-trip attendees, not away from it.
Phase 1 spans four capture types, delivered in open formats that work in ArcGIS Online, Esri StoryMaps, Google Earth, Mapbox, and any modern web platform. The assets are yours, not locked to Terrain360.
Walkable trails and shoreline corridors captured scene-by-scene at GPS-accurate locations. Hotspot overlays link to interpretive content. Used for hikes, drive routes, paddle corridors, and overlook sequences.
For sites that can’t be walked or boated, Burlingame Canyon, Pantops, Williams Lake Cataract, Benton City Scablands, The Narrows, drone delivers the only practical way to capture the geometry of catastrophe from above.
Erratics, small point-locations, and signature geologic features captured as fully-walkable 3D models. Dry Falls overlook, Steamboat Rock, Ginkgo Petrified Forest, Steptoe, Spokane Falls, and named erratics including the Bretz-identified boulders.
Every asset is exported in the open formats your chapters and state agencies already use. Drop them into the platforms your audiences already live in, we hand over working files, not a black box.
This is what iceagefloodstrail.org becomes alongside the Phase 1 field capture, the official public-facing trail experience that integrates IAFI’s scholarship and Terrain360’s immersive capture.
Hero map, latest captures, what is the Ice Age Floods Trail.
In Phase 1The full interactive Terrain360 map, cinematic intro, 3D flood timeline, split view, every captured site.
In Phase 1Deep page per geologic location. 360° capture, drone, photogrammetry, geologic context, Bretz commentary.
~10 hero sites in Phase 1, full 138 in Phase 2Narrative timeline from ice dam breach to today. Embedded 3D visualization. Scale comparisons.
In Phase 1Bretz, Pardee, O’Connor, Bjornstad archive. IAFI scholarship surfaced to the public. Scholar bios.
Scaffolded in Phase 1One page per IAFI chapter and per geologic region. Each chapter gets a public home.
Scaffolded in Phase 1Itineraries, drive routes, seasonal notes, accessibility, partner integrations with state tourism.
Scaffolded in Phase 1IAFI front and center. Membership funnel, donation, partner attribution, dream-team bios.
In Phase 1The Phase 1 capture campaign already in your hands funds the build. Phases 2 and 3 are the roadmap that makes the trail a national destination.
Questions, content corrections, chapter integration, partnership ideas, contact Ryan Abrahamsen, Terrain360 founder.
ryan@terrain360.com · 804.677.1456
James O’Connor (USGS) · Bruce Bjornstad · Stacy Warren (EWU) · Dan Coe (WGS) · Lloyd Dekay (IAFI Lower Columbia) · Jeffrey Becklund (IAFI Wenatchee) · Glenn Cruickshank · Justin Radford (NPS).