Final Project: Best Vacation Cities in Door County, WI

Goal and Background:

This project was created to determine what the best vacation cities in Door County. Specifically, the objective was to find cities close to major roads for ease of access, close to parks, and near popular recreation attractions. This would be useful information for tourists and travel agencies in helping determine possible destinations or places to stay in Door County.    

 
Methods:

All data was first put into the same projection. Following this, Door County was selected and made into a new feature layer out of Wisconsin county data. This new Door County feature class was then intersected with U.S. recreation spots, parks, major roads, and city data to obtain feature classes that contain data for only that county. The Door County cities feature class was then buffered for a two-mile radius and intersected with the Door County roads feature class to obtain a feature class that contains cities within two miles of a major road. The Door County Parks feature class was dissolved to remove any boundaries within that featured class. The parks were then buffered and intersected with the Road cities feature class to find cities within two miles of a park. The Door County Recreation feature class was then buffered for a two mile radius and intersected with the new Park Cities feature class to obtain a feature class contain the best vacation cities.   

 

Figure 1. Date flow model to obtain Door County vacation cities.    

Results:

Figure 2. Results of geoprocessing data for Door County to determine cities closest to major roads, parks, and recreation facilities.


Sources:  

ArcGIS Content Team. (2003, 12 12). U.S. Major Highways. Data & Maps for ArcGIS . ESRI.

ArcGIS Content Team. (2005, 3 20). U.S. National Atlas Citites. Data & Maps for ArcGIS . ESRI.

ArcGIS Content Team. (2013, 4 26). U.S. Parks. Data & Maps for ArcGIS . ESRI.

ArcGIS Content Team. (2013, 4 18). U.S. Recreation Areas . Data & Maps for ArcGIS . ESRI.

Jarosh, J. (2013). Retrieved May 14, 2015, from Door County Visitor Bureau: www.DoorCounty.com/media

Jarosh, J. (2015). Tourism Spending Up $10 Million in Door County Last Year. Retrieved May 14, 2015, from Door County Wisconsin: http://doorcounty.com/2014/05/02/tourism-spending-up-10-million-in-door-county-last-year

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