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.
Trails and networksSmart trail
management software
TrailsIQ runs the whole life of a trail — from the first site visit to years of upkeep. For trail builders and the organizations that run trails. 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.
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Sign up
Free, no card. Answer one question about what your team does and the workspace turns on the sections you need and hides the rest.
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Import your trails
Drop in GPX, KML or GeoJSON — a whole folder at once. Names, geometry and elevation come across together.
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Organize your network
Group trails into networks, set difficulty and surface, and mark the infrastructure and points of interest that go with them.
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Take it to the field
Your crew installs the field app, downloads the network, and files what they find with or without signal.
Core features
A complete toolkit for trail managers
Modules covering trail conditions, maintenance, infrastructure, planning, crews 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.
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.
Trail conditionsMaintenance 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.
MaintenanceInfrastructure and points of interest
Bridges, stairs, kiosks, signs and trailheads as inspectable records; viewpoints, campsites and water sources as the things visitors ask about.
InfrastructureThe 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.
The appsTrail 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.
Trail plannerPublic reports from trail users
A hiker or rider files what they found from their own phone, with the location attached. It lands in your triage queue, not an inbox.
Public reportsYour public site
A block-based site builder with news, an events calendar with signups and waivers, and branded QR codes — so your public presence lives in the same place as your trails, not a separate website nobody updates.
Your public siteCrew, 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.
Crew and costsLifts and counters
Chairs, gondolas, T-bars and carpets with a daily status, and infrared or inductive counters — including TRAFx imports — so usage is measured rather than guessed.
Counters and liftsTerrain 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.
Maps and terrainReporting 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.
ReportingHow the work moves
From what somebody found to what somebody fixed
The report app — for trail visitors
Close the loop with your visitors
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 trail user following your organization gets a push when a condition changes or you post a daily report.
The field app — for trail crews
Your crew's whole workflow, in their pocket
The field app is what the crew actually uses. It opens on the map, works with one thumb, and does not need signal — file an item, log the hours against it, record a new line, photograph a bridge, and everything syncs when the phone next sees a tower.
- Take the network with you Map, terrain, photos and the work list, downloaded before you leave.
- Do the work, not the paperwork Inspect a bridge, report a blowdown, change a trail's condition — a few taps each, standing at it.
- No signal, no problem Anything filed offline queues on the device and sends itself later.
The trail planner
Plan the next trail before you cut it
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.
- Send a proposal A shareable page with the cost, the profile and the map.
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, so it is a button on the map you already have open rather than eight browser tabs of state and federal viewers.
Map layers
Map layers for everything you need
The dashboard, a planned line, the field app in your pocket — same layers, same button. Aerial photography is there too over the lower 48, and a network you have downloaded keeps its base map and terrain on the device, so a valley with no signal is a normal working day. Contours and hillshading are on every plan; the rest come with Core and up.
- Slope angle Every hillside shaded by how steep it is. This is the one that decides whether tread holds or the water takes it.
- Aspect Which way each slope faces. North-facing holds snow and stays wet into June; south-facing dries first — the difference between a spring trail and a summer one.
- Contours and hillshading Contour lines and relief from open elevation data, so a flat green field reads as the ground it actually is.
- Wetlands and streams USFWS-mapped wetlands and every mapped watercourse, including the intermittent ones that are dry the day you walk them. Tread or a culvert inside one of those polygons may need a federal permit before you build.
- Property lines Parcel boundaries with the owner of record, where the state publishes them — Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin and Florida so far, and ask us about yours. The BLM township and section grid is there across most of the country: the frame deeds are written against rather than ownership itself.
- Public land Federal, state and tribal ownership — BLM, Forest Service, Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Defense. The layer that tells you which agency to talk to.
- Weather radar The last hour of precipitation, animated, so a crew heading out can see what is coming rather than what has already arrived.
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.