onX Backcountry Trail Maps GPS

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About this app

▶The Ultimate GPS Map App for Your Outdoor Pursuits
onX Backcountry lets you easily find and navigate trails—whether you’re seeking new backcountry ski lines, climbing routes, or trails to hike and mountain bike. Plan with the best maps and trustworthy trail info, and navigate confidently with offline maps and GPS tracking.

▶Discover New Adventures
Whether navigating a ski tour, hike, run, mountain bike, or backpacking trip, we’ve got you covered. With over 650k miles of trails, including hiking trails, mountain bike trails, backpacking trails, and ski routes, our maps will help you discover adventures nearby.

▶Prep Better With Powerful Map Tools
We adventure in three dimensions, and your maps should reflect that. With a 3D map, you can visualize terrain, scout ski lines, and plan for hazards before you hit the trail. See recent conditions with weather forecasts, reports from other trail users, and get snow info from SNOTEL stations and regional avalanche forecasts. Map out custom routes with snap-to-trail functionality, and use Waypoints, Slope Angle, Slope Aspect, Trail Slope, and Wildfire Layers for detailed planning.

▶Navigate Without Cell Coverage
Save Offline Maps to bring your custom maps when you're outside cell coverage. With the onX Backcountry App, turn your phone into a handheld GPS device using your phone's internal GPS. Navigate offline by following the blue dot to always know how to get home. Leave a breadcrumb trail with Tracker to see where you’ve been and measure your key trip stats.

▶The Best Maps
With map data sourced from USFS, BLM, and NPS, our color-coded base maps help you easily find what you’re looking for. Scout the landscape and visualize terrain by viewing your maps in 3D, topo, satellite imagery, or a hybrid.

▶PREMIUM AND ELITE FEATURES:
650,000+ miles of running trails, hiking trails, backpacking trails, and mountain bike trails
4,000+ backcountry ski lines with guidebook descriptions
300,000+ rock climbing routes with approach trails
Snap-to-trail route builder to plan trips and see distance and elevation gain in seconds
Save unlimited Offline Maps for offline navigation without cell service
GPS tracking to know where you came from, how to get back, and share your adventure
Localized weather conditions and 7-day weather forecasts
24K topographic maps and 3D maps for the entire U.S.
985 million acres of Public Land across the U.S.
550,000 Recreation Icons for points of interest, including trailheads, backcountry cabins and lookouts, campgrounds & dispersed camping land
Avalanche forecasts for the U.S. & Canada
Recent snowfall information & historic trends via SNOTEL data
The best GPS trail maps to navigate on your next backcountry ski, hike, climb, and bike
Private Land Layer-ELITE ONLY: Private property maps and land boundaries, land ownership info, and acreage
Recent Imagery-ELITE ONLY: Detailed satellite imagery from the past two weeks

▶Free Trial
While the onX Backcountry App and many features are free, you’ll start a free Premium or Elite trial when you install the App. This lets you try many of our best features, like 3D maps, unlimited offline downloads, trail info, and guidebook backcountry ski lines. After the first seven days, you’ll still have access to beautiful topo and satellite maps, GPS tracking, weather, and more.

▶Feedback
If you have any trouble or have an idea on what you’d like to see next, contact us at [e-mail].

▶ Your Four Season Adventure App
Whether you’re into hiking trails, mountain bike trails, ski routes, or backpacking trips, our app has the features you need to plan, navigate, and share your adventures. If you love hiking, you’ll find detailed maps and routes for your next trek. Download and start your next hiking, skiing, or mountain biking journey with onX Backcountry. From skiing to hiking to enjoying mountain bike trails, onX Backcountry has everything you need.

Ratings and reviews

Is ok, but I still prefer the free basic competitive app AllTrails. onX has potential but is missing many established trails. Also, tracking seems to be all over place: when walking in a straight line or even standing still, the plotted tracker line zigzags around like a fly on a dog pile. 3D is little more than 2D that's been stretched this way and that: not really that impressive. Will check back in a year or 2.

I downloaded this app hoping it would be useful in directing me to trails and hiking locations but all it does is label trails on a map. If you click on the map it doesn't tell you what trail you've clicked on, how to get there, where the trail head is, the difficulty of the tail, how long it takes to hike the trail, etc, all it gives you is the GPS coordinates of the location you tapped. In essence they are charging for a less detailed and less useful version of Google maps. Not recommended.

The app is easy to use and works well for the most part. I can only give 2 stars though, because it is missing parts of the Superior Hiking Trail, so I am unable to create a route for a section hike. With these missing sections, the app is unusable for my purposes. I requested a refund for the premium subscription through Google and it was denied - what a waste of money!