01 — Organizing
Your team, crew and volunteers
Organize your team, crew and volunteers, along with your inventory, expenses and work hours.
Trail management software
Run your whole
trail network
from one place.
For trail builders and the organizations that run trails.
TrailsIQ handles the whole life of a trail — from the first site visit to years of upkeep. Maintenance, live conditions, your crew in the field, and the public pages your visitors read.
Free plan: 10 trails, 3 field workers, no card.
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Everything a trail organization needs — in one place
Most teams run their trails across a spreadsheet, a group chat, a folder of GPX files and somebody's memory. TrailsIQ is one system for the whole of it: what you have, what condition it is in, what needs doing, who did it, and what the public is told.
02 — The work
Trails, maintenance and inspections
Manage your trails, conditions, maintenance, structures and inspections. Keep ahead of the work.
03 — Reports
Every hour and dollar, in a graph
Export your data in easy-to-read graphs. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or custom ranges.
04 — Community
Website, events and donations
Build your website, raise money, run your events and keep your members and sponsors close.
Built for
Week to week
Fix what broke, check what is standing, plan what is next
Something fails and somebody repairs it. A structure gets rated before it fails. And the next line gets planned before anybody cuts it. Most of a season is those three, on a loop.
Maintenance
Maintenance and work management
A blowdown, a washed-out corner, a broken bridge board. Filed against the trail it is on, with a photo and a location, by whoever is standing in front of it — then triaged, assigned, worked and closed, with the hours and the conversation attached to the item rather than living in somebody's messages.
- Filed where it was found Photo, location and type in a few taps, offline if there is no signal.
- Duplicates caught as you file Nearby items on the same trail are surfaced before a second one is created.
- The thread lives on the item Questions, photos and decisions stay with the work, not in a group chat.
- Hours against the work Logged from the field, so the season adds itself up.
Dana Whitfield added a maintenance issue
Blowdown
Infrastructure
Structure inspection
A bridge is an asset, not a to-do item. Structures, gates, kiosks, signs and culverts are records with a history — walked on a schedule, one question at a time, with photos you can draw on. A rating comes out of the walk, the next one is scheduled from it, and anything found becomes work without being retyped.
- Your questions, per type A bridge and a sign are not inspected with the same list.
- One question at a time A wizard built for standing on the structure, not for a desk afterwards.
- A rating, and the one before it Each walk reads against the last, so a slow decline is visible.
- A finding becomes a task Flagged on the walk, filed against the structure, already located.
The trail planner
Planning and design
Walk the line and record it, draw it on the map, or give the route finder two points and a grade to hold. TrailsIQ reads the terrain underneath, flags the sections that will not last, prices the build by width and surface, and turns the result into a proposal you can send to a landowner or a council.
- Read the terrain Slope, aspect and contours from open elevation data.
- Check it will last Sustainability checks against the half rule and fall-line grade.
- Compare alternate lines Two alignments over the same ground, side by side, with the cost difference.
- Send a proposal A shareable page with the cost, the profile and the map.
TrailsIQ Go — for trail visitors
From what somebody found to what somebody fixed
A trail user opens your report page on their phone, marks where they are, adds a photo and describes what they found. It arrives as a maintenance item on the right trail — already located, already photographed — and enters the same triage queue your own crew files into.
- No account, no install required Works in any phone browser, and as an installable app.
- Nothing goes live unreviewed Reports land in a moderation queue for someone on your team to approve or reject.
- Per-trail visibility A closed or internal trail never appears in the picker.
- Followers get told A push when a condition changes or you post a daily report.
Core features
A complete toolkit for trail managers
Modules covering trail conditions, maintenance, infrastructure, planning, crews, volunteer hours and your public site. A workspace shows the ones its team switched on and hides the rest, so the menu stays the size of the job.
Trails and networks
Import what you already have — GPX, KML or GeoJSON, in bulk — then group trails into networks and give each one its own difficulty, surface, direction and season.
Live trail conditions
Every trail carries a status your crew sets and your visitors read. Weather automation scores conditions per network twice a day, so a page is current even on a week nobody logged in.
Maintenance that starts on the trail
A downed tree, an eroded corner, a broken bridge board — filed against the trail with a photo and a location, triaged, assigned and closed.
Infrastructure and points of interest
Bridges, stairs, kiosks, signs and trailheads as inspectable records; viewpoints, campsites and water sources as the things visitors ask about.
The field app, offline
Map-first, built for one hand and no signal. Download a whole network before you leave and the map, the photos and the work list all come with you.
Trail planner
Walk a line with GPS, draw it, or let the route finder propose one that holds a sustainable grade — then price the build and send a proposal a landowner can read.
Your public site, and what visitors report
A site on your own domain with live conditions, news and an events calendar — and a report page where a hiker or rider files what they found, with the location, straight into your triage queue.
Volunteer hours, ready for funders
Every hour given on a task, a timesheet or a workday in one count — check-in by QR code, walk-ins included, volunteers apart from paid staff — and an annual report with its dollar value for your board and donors.
Crew, hours and the shed
Time logged against the item it was spent on, expenses filed from the field with approval, and an inventory that answers how much lumber is at which trailhead and who has the chainsaw.
Lifts and counters
Chairs, gondolas, T-bars and carpets with a daily status, and TRAFx counter readings imported against the trail they count, so usage is measured rather than guessed.
Terrain you can read
Slope shading, aspect and contour lines generated from open elevation data — the terrain read you would otherwise stitch together from three other tools.
Reporting and records
What was found, what was fixed, what it cost and who did it — over any stretch of time, plus the seasonal checklists that prove the walk happened.
The TrailsIQ map
Slope, wetlands and property lines, on your map
Where a trail goes is decided by the ground under it — how steep the hillside is, which way it faces, whether that flat bit is a wetland, and whose land it is. TrailsIQ draws its own base map and carries all of that on top of it.
Property lines come with the owner of record where the state publishes them — Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin and Florida so far — and the BLM township and section grid covers most of the rest of the country: the frame deeds are written against rather than ownership itself. Aerial photography is there too over the lower 48.
Contours and hillshading are on every plan; the rest come with Core and up. What each plan allows
Stop running your trails out of a spreadsheet
Start free — 10 trails and your whole crew on the field app. Move up when the network does.