Gaia GPS: Offroad Hiking Maps

Outside, Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

Plan trips and stay safer in the woods, with Gaia GPS.

Join hundreds of thousands of backpackers, hunters, offroaders, mountain bikers, backcountry skiers, firefighters, guides, and other serious outdoor adventurers and professionals that use Gaia GPS for work and play. Hike, hunt, and offroad with the best topo maps and outdoor navigation tools.

►► The Best App for Topo Maps

Gaia GPS has been showcased in Apple's "Your Verse" stories, and covered in countless major publications, from Outside and TrailRunner, to the New York Times and FOX News TappedIn.

The name Gaia (guy-yuh) comes from Greek mythology - she is the Goddess of the Earth, or Mother Nature.

►► Maps

• view easy-to-read, modern maps, with fast and beautiful rendering

• explore historic and classic print maps (NRCan, USGS, USFS, IGN)

• download worldwide topo, road, and satellite maps

• search for hiking trails, parks, natural places, and addresses, and tap features on Gaia Topo to get more info

►► Sync and Back-up

• sync your tracks, photos, maps, and waypoints to all of your devices

• keep your data backed up, effortlessly

• share trip plans, and collaborate on shared folders

►► Map Tools

• record tracks, waypoints, and take geo-tagged photos

• import and export GPX and KML files

• customize coordinates types (Decimal, Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Degrees - Decimal Minutes, UTM, and MGRS)

►► Membership Levels

Free Level - You can use Gaia GPS for free. You'll be limited to the default map source, and you won't be able to download maps for offline use.

Member Level - As a Member, you can download a worldwide catalog of topo, road, and satellite maps.

Premium Member Level - As a Premium Member, you also get access to these map sources:

• NatGeo Trails Illustrated
• ESRI World Satellite Imagery
• France IGN
• SwissTopo
• US Private Land Ownership (owners and addresses for parcels)
• US Hunting Layers, including GMUs, public land, and fires
• US NeoTreks Topo
• US Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM)
• Hill-shading, contour lines, slope angle, and other overlays

Ratings and reviews

This app was always reliable and a bargain for the features. Since "Outside" took it over its been hot garbage. I didn't mind the subscription increase and felt it was well worth the price of admission IF it would've been the same app I'd used for years! Now I can't trust it to track my progress during events that are won or loss based on your ability to submit "tracks" showing you indeed ran the marked course. I'm going to start the search for a new TRUSTWORTHY app.

Used to love and live by this app. We have traveled north America over the last 3 years recording everything from coast to coast, Canada, US and Mexico. In the last month or so the app has crashed time after time. Causing us to loose tracks and data that's been very important to us. I no longer rely on this app and would strong encourage others to look else were. I'm nothing but disappointed in it and feel really heart broken that that we have lost so much information!

Bring backup... Unexpectedly logged out in the back country. The developers are aware of this issue and working on it but please don't plan to use this app without having a backup in place (paper maps & compass and the skills to use them or another app) as I was logged out on the way out of the back country when I got a momentary connection to the phone network. If I was heading into the mountains instead of out it would have been a big deal. In my case it was just an inconvenience.

What's new

What's New in Gaia GPS
- Introducing the Home Feed: Share your adventures, get inspired by fellow outdoor
enthusiasts, and engage with the largest outdoor community on Gaia GPS.
- Seamless Device Integration: Now connect your Garmin, Wahoo, and other devices to
automatically sync your activity recordings with your Gaia GPS maps.
- Enhanced Profile & Privacy Controls: Fine-tune your privacy settings to share just the right
amount, ensuring you’re always in control.