BRMB Maps by Backroad Maps

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About this app

Canada’s #1 App for Hunting, Fishing, Camping & Outdoor Adventure

Explore Canada’s outdoors with confidence using BRMB Maps, the most detailed and trusted GPS navigation app for the backcountry. Built from the award-winning Backroad Mapbooks series, BRMB Maps combines detailed topographic maps with over 900,000 searchable Points of Interest across every province and territory.

Whether you're into fishing, camping, hiking, hunting, paddling, ATVing, snowmobiling, or wildlife viewing, BRMB Maps has everything you need to plan, navigate, and explore – online or offline.

🧭 Key Features
Topographic GPS Maps: View relief shading, contour lines, backroads, parks, and geographic features
Current Location Tracking: Use your phone’s GPS to navigate in real time
Cross-Device Access: Use on smartphone, tablet, and desktop with a single account
Canada-Wide Basemap: Includes a seamless basemap from Backroad Maps across Canada
Custom Adventure Layers: Enable fishing, hunting, trails, paddling, Crown land & more
Offline Maps: Download maps and all POI details for off-grid navigation
Satellite Imagery: Overlay roads, trails, and features on high-res satellite maps
Trip Recording & Custom Waypoints: Track routes, mark campsites, and save locations
Printable Custom Maps: Create and print stunning maps from brmbmaps.com

🔍 Explore Over 150,000 Adventure Sites
Fishing 🎣
22,000+ lakes, rivers, creeks & ocean fishing areas
Bathymetry (lake & ocean depths), fish species, stocked lakes, boat launches & marinas
Zone boundaries & regulation links

Hunting 🦌
3,500+ hunting areas (WMUs/WMZs/GMAs, species-specific zones)
Species details, boundaries & regulation info
Crown land access & private land overlays

Camping & Parks
20,000 national, provincial, regional, urban, conservation and natural parks
Campsites, picnic areas, backcountry campsites, backcountry huts & cabins
Private campgrounds, resorts & lodges, amenities & services

Hiking, Biking & Horseback Trails
130,000+ km of multi-use trails with trailheads, difficulty ratings, distance & elevation gain
Includes hiking, mountain biking, cycling, horseback riding, backpacking, and multi-use
Separate Trans-Canada Trail layer with trailheads, pavilions and alternate routes

Paddling (Canoeing & Kayaking)
107,000+ km of routes with access points, difficulty ratings, distance & grading
Features lake circuits, river and ocean paddling routes, whitewater & more
Paddling routes include portages with distances, campsites, put-ins & take-outs

ATV, OHV, Off-Road and Overland Routes
160,000+ km of trails and routes with staging areas, difficulty ratings & distance
Features ATV/OHV, dirt biking, and overlanding route options
Plus 3,000,000+ km of Roads and 160,000+ km of Logging Roads to explore

Snowmobiling
150,000+ km of trails and routes with staging areas, difficulty ratings & distance
Features federation & club-maintained trails, plus backcountry routes
Clubhouses, warming huts & shelters, side trails and more

Winter Recreation
9,500+ km of ski & snowshoe trails for cross-country, Nordic, backcountry & downhill skiing
2,100+ trailheads, Nordic areas & ski centres
Trails features difficulty ratings, distance, elevation gain & ski area amenities

Wildlife Viewing & Nature
1,800+ sites for birdwatching & wildlife viewing
Features birding sites, fish hatcheries & spawning areas, marine life, small animals & large mammals
Bird viewing & scenic lookouts, trailheads & wildlife centres

Attractions & Unique Sites
20,000+ points, including roadside and backcountry attractions
Features big trees, caves, waterfalls, hot springs, lighthouses, beaches, museums and scenic areas
Commercial sites include hours, location and contact information

Why BRMB Maps?
Unlike other GPS apps, BRMB Maps is built specifically for Canadian terrain and adventure types, with unmatched detail, local insights, and recreation-focused layers. Trusted by search & rescue teams, guides, hunters, anglers and explorers for over 30 years.

Ratings and reviews

While the maps themselves are very useful (despite having many non-existing road and not having those that are there), the navigation app is a complete garbage. In fact, it could be even dangerous if you rely on tracking your movements. All of a sudden, your valuable track just disappears after the app crash, without being saved. The old app was a bit better in this case. A call to a technical support brought up a ridiculous suggestion to manually save your track from time to time. Second thing: if you have your tracks and points saved in an old app - you are doomed. Despite the promise to be able to see them in this app, the server they are stored is scrapped, and there is no way you can retrieve them, not by exporting them, not by "sharing" them via facebook or twitter. Third: interface, search - none of that is well thought or even working properly. My advise: stay away from this app, there are some others that use their maps, but have a decent navigation

Basic features are not working for years now! Synchronisation with Web Map is not working.If I synchronise, I add the full set of waypoints to my phone,even the waypoints that have been on there already.No search function or filter options in app for waypoints in edit mode. You always have to scroll through full list of waypoints. Randomly crashes during synchronization. Pro subscription makes no difference!More things are wrong, but I am running out of room here!Be aware, not what you expect!

Love the idea of this software, but im not a fan of the interface at all. not very intuitive when it comes to searching locations, and navigating. I know a few things are being worked on, such as being able to click directly on the routes for info. make it similar to onyx and alltrails this app would be 100%. also very little people leave reviews which is a shame, needs more promotion!

What’s new

Our biggest data refresh yet:
• Fully updated basemaps + Adventures for all regions
• 45,000 km of new roads added coast to coast
• 900,000+ searchable POIs, including 8,000 new Adventure POIs
• Thousands of updated land & water features
• Major land use updates for Crown, Private, Parks & FN lands
• Thousands of new/updated trails, routes, campsites, and paddling features
• Enhanced stability with new analytics tools for smoother performance