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 covers the whole life of a trail, from the first site visit through years of upkeep. That includes 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 with a spreadsheet, a group chat, a folder of GPX files and someone's memory. TrailsIQ puts all of it in one system: 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, and stay ahead of the work.
03 — Reports
Every hour and dollar, in a graph
Export your data as easy-to-read graphs, by day, week, month, year or any custom range.
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
Things break and someone fixes them. Structures get inspected before they fail. New trail gets planned before anyone starts digging. Most of a season is those three jobs, over and over.
Maintenance
Maintenance and work management
A blowdown, a washed-out corner, a broken bridge board. Whoever is standing in front of it files it against the trail, with a photo and the location. Then it is reviewed, assigned, worked and closed, with the hours and the conversation kept on the item instead of in someone's messages.
- Filed where it was found Photo, location and type in a few taps, even with no signal.
- Duplicates caught as you file Similar items close by on the same trail show up before a second one is created.
- The conversation stays on the item Questions, photos and decisions stay with the work instead of in a group chat.
- Hours against the work Hours are logged from the field, so the season's totals add up on their own.
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Blowdown
Infrastructure
Structure inspection
A bridge is something you look after for years, not a one-off task. Bridges, gates, kiosks, signs and culverts each keep their own history. They are inspected on a schedule, one question at a time, with photos you can mark up. Each inspection gives a rating and sets the date of the next one, and anything that needs fixing becomes a task without being retyped.
- Questions for each type A bridge and a sign get different questions.
- One question at a time Built to be filled out on the structure, not reconstructed back at the office.
- Each rating next to the last Every inspection is compared with the one before, so a slow decline shows up.
- A finding becomes a task Anything flagged during the inspection is filed against the structure, with the location already set.
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 won't hold up, 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 public elevation data.
- Check it will last Every section is checked against the half rule and fall-line grade.
- Compare alternate lines Put two routes over the same ground side by side and see the difference in cost.
- Send a proposal Share a page with the cost, the elevation 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, with the location and photo already attached, in the same review list your own crew uses.
- No account, no install required Works in any phone browser, and as an installable app.
- Nothing goes live unreviewed Reports wait for someone on your team to approve or reject them.
- You choose which trails show A closed or internal trail never appears in the list.
- Followers stay informed They get a notification when a trail's condition changes or you post a daily report.
Core features
A complete toolkit for trail managers
Tools for trail conditions, maintenance, infrastructure, planning, crews, volunteer hours and your public site. Your account only shows the tools your team turns on, so the menu stays as simple as your work.
Trails and networks
Import the trail files 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 has a status that your crew sets and your visitors can see. TrailsIQ also checks the weather for each network twice a day, so conditions stay current even in a week when nobody logs in.
Maintenance that starts on the trail
Log a downed tree, an eroded corner or a broken bridge board right on the trail, with a photo and the location. Then review it, assign it and close it out.
Infrastructure and points of interest
Keep a record of every bridge, staircase, kiosk, sign and trailhead you inspect, plus the viewpoints, campsites and water sources visitors ask about.
The field app, offline
Built around the map, for use with one hand and no signal. Download a whole network before you head out and the map, the photos and the task list all go with you.
Trail planner
Walk a line with GPS, draw it, or let the route finder suggest 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 website on your own domain with live conditions, news and an events calendar. Its report page lets hikers and riders tell you what they found, with the location, and the report goes straight to your review list.
Volunteer hours, ready for funders
Every volunteer hour from tasks, timesheets and workdays is counted in one place. People check in with a QR code, walk-ins included, and volunteers are kept separate from paid staff. The annual report shows what that time is worth in dollars, for your board and donors.
Crew, hours and the shed
Log time against the job it was spent on and file expenses from the field for approval. The inventory tells you how much lumber is at which trailhead and who has the chainsaw.
Lifts and counters
Give chairlifts, gondolas, T-bars and carpets a daily status. Import TRAFx counter readings for the trail each counter is on, so you know how much a trail is used instead of guessing.
Terrain you can read
Slope shading, aspect and contour lines built from public elevation data, all on one map instead of spread across three other tools.
Reporting and records
See what was found, what was fixed, what it cost and who did it, over any period you choose. Seasonal checklists show that each walk-through actually happened.
The TrailsIQ map
Slope, wetlands and property lines, on your map
Where a trail can go depends on the ground: how steep the hillside is, which way it faces, whether that flat spot is a wetland, and who owns the land. TrailsIQ has its own base map and shows all of that on top of it.
Property lines include the owner's name where the state publishes it, which so far means Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin and Florida. Most of the rest of the country has the BLM township and section grid, the survey lines deeds are written against rather than ownership itself. Aerial photos cover the lower 48.
Contours and hillshading are on every plan. The other layers come with Core and up. What each plan allows
Stop running your trails out of a spreadsheet
Start free with 10 trails and your whole crew on the field app. Upgrade when your network grows.