Maintenance, located
A downed tree, an eroded corner, a broken bridge board — filed against the trail with a photo and a position, then triaged and assigned.
Why TrailsIQ
One system, instead of six
Most trail networks are run on a spreadsheet, a group chat, a folder of GPX files, a clipboard and somebody’s memory. Each of those works. None of them talks to the others, and the person holding it together is the one who cannot take a week off.
What it replaces
What you are using now, and what takes its place
Nothing here is a bad tool. A spreadsheet is free, a group chat is where everyone already is, and both are the right answer for a while. What they cannot do is tell you what is outstanding, what it cost, or what happened last season without somebody reading back through it.
Today
A spreadsheet of trails
One person keeps it. It is right until the day they are away, and nobody else is sure which copy is current.
With TrailsIQ
Trails, networks and condition
Import the GPX files you already have. Every trail carries its own status, difficulty, surface and season, and the map is the list.
Today
A group chat for problems
A photo of a downed tree scrolls away by Thursday. Nobody can say what is still outstanding without reading back a month.
With TrailsIQ
Maintenance that starts on the trail
Filed against the trail with a photo and a location, triaged, assigned, and closed. The list of what is outstanding is a list.
Today
A clipboard for inspections
The bridge was checked in June. The paper is in somebody’s truck, and next June nobody is reminded.
With TrailsIQ
Structures with a due date
Bridges, boardwalk, signs and kiosks as records that know when they were last looked at and when they are next due.
Today
A folder of GPX files
The new line lives on a phone, in an email, and in a folder named after the month it was walked.
With TrailsIQ
A planner that prices the build
Walk the line or draw it. TrailsIQ reads the terrain under it, flags what will not last, prices the work and makes a proposal.
Today
Notes to write up later
Everything found on the hill is retyped at a desk that evening, or it is not.
With TrailsIQ
A field app that works with no signal
File it where you are standing. It queues on the phone and sends itself when the phone next sees a tower.
Today
A website somebody updates
Conditions are current the week after somebody remembers, and “is it rideable?” gets answered one message at a time.
With TrailsIQ
A public page that is already right
The status your crew sets is the status your visitors read, and a weather engine keeps scoring it between edits.
In one place
Everything a trail organization runs on
From the tree somebody found on Saturday to the report your board reads in March — the same system, on the desk and on the hill.
Structures and inspections
Bridges, stairs, kiosks and signs as inspectable records, each with an interval and a next-due date so nothing waits for somebody to remember.
The trail planner
Record a line on foot, draw it, or let the route finder hold a sustainable grade — then price the build and send a proposal.
Terrain you can read
Slope, aspect, contours and hillshading, plus wetlands, streams, public land and property lines, on the same map you already have open.
Crew, hours and spend
Time logged against the item it was spent on, expenses filed from the field, and a shared inventory of tools, lumber and hardware.
Something to show the board
What was found, what was fixed, what it cost and who did it — the reporting a grant application or an annual meeting asks for.
Live conditions
Every trail carries a status your crew sets and your visitors read, scored against weather and soil moisture twice a day in between.
The whole network, offline
Download a network before you leave and the map, the terrain, the photos and the work list all come with you into the valley.
Discovery vs running it
What about Trailforks and AllTrails?
They are not what this is, and you probably want both.
Discovery apps
Trailforks, AllTrails and the rest are how the public finds your trails — maps, photos, reviews, a community. They are aimed at the rider or the hiker choosing where to go on Saturday, and they are good at it.
TrailsIQ
This is how the network gets run — what you have, what condition it is in, what needs doing, who did it, what it cost, and what the public is told. Aimed at the people who look after the trails rather than the people riding them.
The two sit alongside each other. Being listed on a discovery app tells somebody your trail exists; it will not tell you that the bridge on it is due an inspection, or that four people reported the same washout last week. Plenty of organizations keep their listing exactly as it is and run the work here.
Getting there
You do not have to start again
Import the GPX, KML or GeoJSON files you already have — a whole folder at once, with names, geometry and elevation coming across together. The spreadsheet stays where it is until you are ready to stop opening it.
See it on your own trails
Start free — 10 trails and your whole crew on the field app, for as long as you want. Import what you have and see the network on a map before you decide anything.
No card, no trial clock, no call.