Work that records itself
A volunteer drops a pin, photographs the washout and picks a type. That is the whole entry. It reaches the queue before they are back at the trailhead — and if there was no signal, when there next is.
For clubs, chapters and volunteer associations
The whole trail program, out of the group chat
Most trail clubs run on a spreadsheet, a shared drive nobody can find, and three people who know where everything is. TrailsIQ gives that knowledge somewhere to live that survives a change of committee.
What it has to handle
Built for a crew that has other jobs
Nothing here needs a full-time administrator. The work gets recorded by the people already doing it, on the phone already in their pocket, and the reporting falls out of that rather than being a second task at the end of the season.
Volunteers without a login problem
Field workers get the app and the trails; managers get the dashboard. Roles are set once and carry to every device, so nobody has to be talked through settings on a Saturday.
The public doing your survey work
A hiker files a report from the trail with no account and no app store detour. It lands in a review queue for one of your people to approve — hundreds of trail miles walked a week, by people who were going anyway.
Conditions your members trust
One status per trail, set by whoever was last on it, on a page anyone can read. Weather scoring keeps it moving on the weeks nobody logged in, which is most weeks.
Hours you can actually report
Volunteer hours logged against the trail and the job as the work happens. That is the number a grant application asks for, and reconstructing it in March never goes well.
A public page without a webmaster
Conditions, news, events and a trail map on a page you build from blocks. Point your own domain at it, or link to it from the site you already have.
The two that change the most
Where a club feels the difference
Everything else is a better filing cabinet. These two change what the organization is able to do at all.
Public reports
Your members become your survey crew
A club with six active volunteers cannot walk a hundred miles of trail every month. Its members walk it every weekend anyway. Public reporting turns that into data you can work from, without turning your inbox into a queue.
- Fifteen seconds, no account Pick the trail or let GPS pick it, choose a category, photo, send.
- Nothing goes live unreviewed Every report waits in your queue for a person on your team to approve or reject. Approved items join the same maintenance pipeline as your own.
- Per-trail, and off by default You choose which trails accept reports. A trail set to private never appears in the report app at all.
The field app
The dead-zone problem, solved rather than apologized for
Trail work happens where there is no signal, which is why so much of it gets written down twice — once on paper and once, badly remembered, at home. Download the network before you leave and the app keeps working: map, terrain, photos and the work list, all readable in the valley.
- Take the network with you Map tiles, terrain, photos and the full work list, on the device.
- Edits queue and send themselves Everything you file offline uploads on its own when the phone finds signal again.
- Record a line while you walk it A new alignment or a reroute, saved with distance, climb and grade worked out for you.
What the free plan covers
Enough for a small club to run its whole program without ever reaching a paywall. No card, no trial clock.
- Trails
- 10
- Field workers
- 3
- Manager
- 1
- Forever
- Free
Getting started
A first week that ends with something useful
Import on Monday, and have your first real condition report by the weekend.
01
Bring your trails in
GPX, KML or GeoJSON, in bulk. Whatever your last mapping effort left behind is almost certainly one of those.
02
Add the people
Managers and field workers by email. Roles decide what each one sees, on the web and on the phone.
03
Set conditions once
Walk through the trails and give each an honest status. From here it is an edit, not a survey.
04
Open the door to reports
Switch public reporting on for the trails you want it on, and point your members at the free app.
Start with the free plan
10 trails, 3 field workers and every feature in the product. Upgrade when your program outgrows it, not before.