Becky Holmes wears a 360-degree Street View Trekker backpack camera to photograph trails in Bloomington area in this photo from June 2016. Volunteers using similr cameras will hike the hills of Brown County this fall

Becky Holmes wears a 360-degree Street View Trekker backpack camera to photograph trails in Bloomington area in this photo from June 2016. Volunteers using similr cameras will hike the hills of Brown County this fall

Before long, the world will be able to view Brown County’s autumn beauty from winding and sometimes obscure trails as volunteers strap a 50-pound, 15-lens Google Trekker backpack camera onto their backs and head out into the woods to record the sights.

The Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau has a list of people who have volunteered for the job. Aubrey Sitzman, public relations coordinator for the bureau, said the camera will be on loan to Brown County for a month this fall when changing leaf colors are bold and bright.

“We’ve got a long list of people that have shown interest, and we are working to figure out where they will be going and when,” she said. “We want to get the most use out of it as we can.”

This summer, a Google Trekker camera has been making the rounds, on loan, to 26 city parks and recreation departments in the state and recording footage from city parks. It was in Bloomington in June, when parks department employees used it to capture images of the Jackson Creek Trail, the B-Line Trail, the Bloomington Rail Trail, the Clear Creek Trail, the Cascades Park Trail and the Winslow Sports Park Trail.

In rural Brown County, citizen volunteers will hike wooded trails with the camera. The multiple lenses capture different views that are pieced together to create a 360-degree video. Brown County State Park is the main destination, where hikers will walk the 10 miles of trails that lace through the hilly and wooded forest.

The county also hopes to offer online Google map views of trails around Yellowwood Lake — “hopefully the logging will be out of the way by then,” Sitzman said. And there is a plan to launch a kayak from the T.C. Steele State Historic Site, sending someone with the camera down Crooked Creek. She said the camera also will capture treks to, and through, the county’s two covered bridges.