The Fourteeners

This was a really fun site to build. I was inspired after a three-day backpacking trip to see a visual overview of the miles and elevation we covered on our trek. Using only open datasets, I built a few prototypes that eventually turned into some of the scenes in the site.

The Fourteeners renders each route using real USGS 3DEP elevation data to create a mesh, OpenStreetMap routes get draped over it. It is a fully static site. A generator run turns the terrain and route data into 63 pre-rendered pages, Vite bundles the viewer, and the output deploys to Cloudflare Pages.