Billy Goat Trail Analysis

Hiking Trails of Great Falls of Maryland is an explanation of the Billy Goat Trail. This explanation was written by the National Park Service, but it does not specify what specific individual wrote it. There are five parts of this explanation. The first is a brief but descriptive summary of each of the three parts of the Billy Goat Trail. The second part talks about Bear Island which is a small area near the Billy Goat Trail that is preserved by the National Park Service. The third part of the explanation is Safety recommendations these recommendations are what you should do when you are going on the Billy Goat Trail. The fourth part of the explanation is a set of regulations that are enforced by the National Park Service in order to keep the trail and surrounding land clean and safe. The fifth and final part is the parts of the trail, how long they are and description of each part. The fifth part of the explanation is in a table but besides that it is all just text. This explanation is informative about what the trail is like, but there isn’t any history. …show more content…
There are four parts to this article. The first part is a description of the the trail, it gives some basic information like how it is four miles long and the C and O canal runs through the middle of it. The second part are Trail notes which were written by Ken Clark in these notes there is a map of the trail and in the notes Ken Clark gives an example of an average hike on the BIlly Goat Trail. The third part of this short article is pictures, there are five pictures of the trail. The fourth part of the article is not actually part of the article itself, the fourth part is comments on the trail. Each comment is set up with the comment writer’s name, the date they went on the trail, the grade they gave the trail out of five and finally what they liked and what they didn’t like about the