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

The app isn't bad, it usually works but you can't update your profile bc the pop up won't scroll, only the background will. Don't expect to subscribe to pro on the app and have it work on the web map. The sync doesn't work. You can export a track from the web map but you can't import it into the app. This feature is coming soon... for the last 2 years. They should stick with paper maps bc technology is not their strong suit.

Love all the information that is displayed ... fishing, campsites, Rec sites and all the other tidbits of in like em. really cool to see points of interest along the way, wildlife viewing, waterfalls etc. I only gave it 4 stars because I like to preplan routes at home. Zig zagging from trail to trail, and not using their whole trail system/route. It's kind of a pain to preplan, but it may just be me and I'm missing something. I tried a couple times and they don't show up on the map.

What’s new

Explore the outdoors with confidence using our latest update! BRMB Maps 3.6 brings enhanced Navigation tools, a refreshed Hunting experience, and improved performance across the board.

- Hunting layers feature species imagery, detailed write-ups, and improved POIs across Canada
- Enjoy faster, more stable maps with upgraded core mapping.
- Improved basemap colours for better visibility
- Always-visible GPS direction arrow
- New “Press to Drop Waypoint” option
- UI refinements and bug fixes