Though just 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, Rhode Island boasts 400 miles of shoreline. And University of Rhode Island graduate student Erica Meier knows most all of its 400-plus public access points. Meier spent the summer and fall of 2022 visiting and recording public shoreline access points along the coast with 41°N editor Monica Allard Cox to update the website Shoreline-RI.com. It was a four-month project Meier completed as a Rhode Island Sea Grant-University of Rhode Island Masters of Environmental Science and Management (MESM) Communications Fellow working with Cox. It occurred to Meier that the data they collected told a complex story that lent itself to interactive digital storytelling. A digital story map would allow her to combine her research and field work with all that Meier was learning in her geographic information system mapping, political ecology, and environmental thought and behaviors classes.