Case Studies
What land managers learned when they could count what happens on the ground.
Each case study starts with a question a city, park district or trail organization needed answered: did a project work, where are people going, is a court worth expanding. Here is how they answered it, and what the data showed.
City of Mora
Measuring a pedestrian safety demonstration project before and after it went in
Mora, Minnesota
Mora added a protected walking and biking path to Portage Avenue, a street with no sidewalk. A before-and-after study at the same three places showed pedestrian activity up 60% once the path was in.
+60%
pedestrian passages per place per hour, before vs. after
City of Leawood · Leawood, Kansas
Settling a pickleball and tennis debate with court-by-court utilization
Leawood City Park's courts were contested as pickleball grew. Measuring every court every ten minutes showed the pickleball courts in play 27% of open hours, and 73% at the 9 a.m. peak, against 3% to 15% for each tennis court.
CORBA & Eau Claire County · Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Finding out who really uses a mountain bike park, and filtering out race day
CORBA is expanding the trails at Lowes Creek County Park. Four stations over 65 days showed 77% of trail users on foot and 16% on bikes, with races and pavilion crowds removed from the everyday counts.
Redhead MTB Park & City of Chisholm · Chisholm, Minnesota
Counting 50,000 passages at a mine-pit bike park, with the parking lot left out
Four stations at Redhead Mountain Bike Park counted 50,488 passages in 107 days: 43% bikes, 38% on foot, 73% helmet use, a busiest hour of noon to 1 p.m., and an exclusion that kept parking-lot traffic out of every count.
Minnesota Department of Transportation · Edina, Minnesota
Testing AI trail cameras side by side with an infrared counter on a MnDOT trail bridge
On the Nine Mile Creek Regional Trail bridge over Highway 100, Waypoint cameras came within 7–12% of a loaned infrared counter's daily totals, and showed what it couldn't: 81% helmet use, dog walkers avoiding the bridge and motorbikes crossing it.
Three Rivers Park District · Bloomington, Minnesota
Counting cross-country skiers and winter trail users at Hyland Lake Park Reserve
Eight solar cameras counted 22,514 winter passages at Hyland Lake Park Reserve in 28 days, 26% on skis, and showed activity share trail by trail: 46% skiers on one trail, none on another. The pilot produced Waypoint's repeat-subject filter, which cut false counts from 31% to 3%.
Field deployments
Technical write-ups from earlier pilots: station layouts, uptime, detection counts and engineering lessons. More of these are being rewritten as case studies.
Three Rivers Park District
Hyland Lake Park Reserve: deployment notes
Four-week winter feasibility pilot across eight trail monitoring stations.
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Nine Mile Creek bridge: deployment notes
Engineering notes from the April 2026 pilot: stations, uptime and site placement.
Independent deployment
Lake Girard Trail System
Multistation, multimodal monitoring of trails and water access.
City of Mora
Portage Avenue: deployment notes
Engineering notes from the May 2026 baseline: uptime, power and imagery.
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