How to Link to Recreation.gov

NOTE: This service will be discontinued in December 2004. To continue to display data from Recreation.gov on your website, you will need to create a web service. For information on creating a web service, follow this link.

You can add HTML code to your Web page to provide one-click results from the Recreation.gov database:

If you want to search Recreation.gov to retrieve public use opportunities available at just one site:

Query	HTML Code to Add to Your Web Page
Ask the Recreation.gov database for information about Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge	Ask the Recreation.gov database for information about <a href="http://www.recreation.gov/detail.cfm?ID=(1284)"> Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge </a>

Each site listed in Recreation.gov has its own ID. You can determine the unique ID for your site by searching by its name on the >Recreation.gov home page. For example, enter Salton in the online query form, click on the appropriate result, and you'll see links to the sites in the database. Click on the link to Sonny Bono Salton Sea NWR, in the address bar that the ID in Recreation.gov is 1592

If you want to search for FWS offices offering one specific activity in one state:

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about Oregon refuges open to fishing

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about <a href="http://www.recreation.gov/advancedsearch.cfm?states=OR&fishing;=on&agency;=FWS">Oregon refuges open to fishing</a>

Use the postal codes for the states, such as:
AL for Alabama
DC for District of Columbia
GU for Guam
MP for Mariana Islands
PR for Puerto Rico
VI for Virgin Islands

Recreational activities have been specifically defined for the Recreation.gov database:
AutoTouring - use AutoTouring Biking - use Biking Boating - use boating
Camping - use camping
Climbing - use Climbing
Cultural/Historic Sites - use historic
Educational Programs - use Interp
Fishing - use Fishing
Hiking - use hiking
Horseback Riding - use horsebackriding
Hunting - use hunting
Lodging - use lodging
Off Highway Vehicles - use offhighwayvehicle
Recreational Vehicles - use rv
Visitor Center - use vc
Water Sports - use watersports
Wilderness Area - use wilderness
Wildlife Viewing - use wildlifeviewing
Winter Sports - use wintersports

If you want to search for FWS offices in one state offering two separate recreational opportunities:

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about California refuges open to both fishing and hunting

then use the following HTML code:

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about

<a href="http://www.recreation.gov/advancedsearch.cfm?states=CA&hunting;=on&fishing;=on&agency;=FWS">

California refuges open to both fishing and hunting</a>

If you want to search for FWS offices in two states offering the same recreational opportunity:

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about Virginia and North Carolina refuges open to hunting

then use the following HTML code:

ask the Recreation.gov database for information about

<a href="http://www.recreation.gov/advanced.cfm?states=VA,NC&hunting;=on&agency;=FWS">

Virginia and North Carolina refuges open to hunting</a>

Note that a search for California refuges open to hunting (and asking about only that one activity...) will identify substantially more refuges in response to the query. The search is a Boolean "and" function - it will return results only for those refuges which are open for both hunting and fishing. Recreation.gov does not offers a search for refuges that are open to hunting or fishing - yet.

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