Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps

By TrailBehind

  • Category: Navigation
  • Release Date: 2017-05-22
  • Current Version: 2025.6.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 119.90 MB
  • Developer: TrailBehind
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 15.0
Score: 4.77404
4.77404
From 31,222 Ratings

Description

Welcome the warm weather with the ultimate collection of hiking trails and camping sites around you – Gaia GPS. Find amazing adventures with topographic maps while spending less time looking at your phone. Explore with map layers, weather condition updates, GPS navigation, hill-shading and hiking maps. Discover local routes or map your own trail and share online. Whether you’re looking for hiking trails, off-roading routes, backpacking, or public land, discover with Gaia GPS. Find backpacker trails or offroad routes with the help of Gaia GPS. Make the wilderness your backyard with the best hiking, backpacking, and backcountry navigator – all in one. Navigate routes with offline navigation, weather reports, GPS coordinates, camping sites and distance tracking features to help you explore. Cruise through a popular backpacking route, hiking trail, or walking map with GPS navigation tools to guide you. Download the premier outdoor activity app featured in publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and GearJunkie. BACKPACK OR HIKE • Hike the largest collection of trails and routes available on Gaia Topo, the ultimate backcountry navigator. • National parks or scenic hiking trails – Discover new outdoor routes waiting to be explored • Backpacking from base camp all along offroad hiking trails and back again is easy with breadcrumbs • Distance tracker with altitude and elevation monitoring for every activity • Travel easily to trailheads with connections to directions CAMPING COMPANION • Explore different camping sites and navigate to them conveniently using GPS coordinates • Discover campgrounds across national parks, forests, and scenic landscapes ROAD TRIP PLANNER MADE FOR YOU • Offline maps: RV travel is easy with offline maps that track your location, even when far from cell service • Discover camping sites, parks and route conditions seamlessly to help you prepare OFFROAD ACTIVITY PLANNING • 4x4 & overlanding adventures are easy to record on Gaia GPS • Activity tracker and route planner make trekking, hiking, and backpacking offroad trails simple • Maps, routes, and waypoints displayed on Apple CarPlay SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING • Discover ski slopes and cross country skiing trails around you with best-in-class topographic maps • Know weather conditions with ski resort information and Nordic trails from OnTheSnow EXPLORE THE WORLD LIKE A PROFESSIONAL • GPS coordinates help explore while creating routes and tracking progress • Share your data with clients to improve Gaia GPS • Access the full NatGeo map collection ELEVATE YOUR OUTDOOR ADVENTURES WITH GAIA GPS PREMIUM WITH OUTSIDE+ • Access 300+ maps including NatGeo Trails Illustrated, Private Lands, weather forecasts, and more • Offline maps to download anytime • Weather, terrain, and safety features • Access the Trailforks GPS biking app • Expert-led online courses on Outside Learn • Premium access to award-winning films, shows, and live TV on Outside Watch • Unlimited digital access to Outside Network's 15 iconic brands including Outside, Backpacker and National Park Trips Explore the world with Gaia GPS to guide all of your adventures. Enjoy GPS navigation, countless hike trails, and more with Gaia GPS – your perfect outdoor companion. SIGNUP • Gaia GPS is part of the Outside Network. Create an Outside account to access the app. TO MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION: • TURN OFF auto-renewal: https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 • Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. • Your Apple App Store Account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. • Privacy Policy: https://www.gaiagps.com/company/privacy • Terms of use: https://www.gaiagps.com/company/terms_of_use

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Reviews

  • Always lets me down.

    1
    By IactuallyAdventureToo
    Maybe I’m using it all wrong. But with another friend and second device who I usually adventure with. On both devices we can never get the downloaded maps to work. Even in cell service or WiFi it is incredibly slow and glitchy. Literally 100% of the time I plan on using this app out side of cellular network it fails even with Down loaded maps. I just end up on google maps instead. I’ve since switched to onx maps. And they work flawlessly. You download a map in second (not years like giaiaiaia) and when you’re out of cell service you open the app and you can see the map. Imagine that, giaaiaia can’t imagine that.

  • just a piece of junk

    1
    By Greg Darnall
    why was a great app is now useless. could not log on the log on process is now and endless circle of useless.

  • Elevation calculation bug

    1
    By Global part
    I really like this app, but it is not well supported. There is a bug in calculating the elevation of routes that you plan. I brought this to the attention of the developer that recognized the issue back in 2024. I raise the issue again in 2025, but there has been no response after two Support tickets. It’s a shame. It’s a great app. Just don’t trust the elevation calculation it can be extremely inaccurate. You will see it in the elevation profile where the elevation drops back to the start and then goes back up to the correct elevation. It calculates that elevation change giving the ascent in descent distances that don’t exist.

  • Need to fix route ascent/descent estimates

    4
    By Sue traveler
    I love Gaia. Except! Currently, route estimates are good on mileage but NOT on elevation gain/loss. About 30-50% off! That needs to be fixed!!!

  • Used to be awesome

    1
    By CoolBreeze567
    Used to be the best app. Surrender since sold. Often crashes. Often not usable now. Looking at other options.

  • Crashing Issues & Price Increases are Undermining a Great App

    3
    By Cairo3
    Gaia *used* to be amazing, and has the potential to be so again, in which case I would revise this. But as of today, it has been experiencing chronic crashing issues while tracking routes that despite multiple updates have not been resolved. Yet, despite this substantial drop in reliability, the developer is raising the subscription price by $30! If the app didn’t randomly crash constantly, it would probably be worth that. With the crashing, probably not. Fix the crashing issues and establish credibility that they will not reemerge, then you can talk about raising prices.

  • You were the best!

    1
    By igokilla
    You guys had the best GPS app out there and it was free! I go four wheeling for the first time this year get deep into the trails pull out my app for a little navigational help. And everything I had is gone and now you want to charge. Add more features and charge for that. Don’t charge for what you already had for free.

  • Great app, but…

    5
    By Ftpon
    I really like this app for hiking because of all the information available from maps and overlays. It’s a great tool to help hikers safely navigate. But, it is sometimes difficult for my octogenarian eyes to discern the direction of travel. If the design were colored so that the forward tip were a distinct color or if the back had longer forks, it would be far easier to use!

  • Used to be great

    1
    By grgtyhfswv
    Been a subscriber for years but the latest updates have made the app unusable. Laggy, crashing, starting a track when I did nothing but zoom on a map. Can we roll back like 4 releases?!

  • Maps are Good - Offline Use Not So Much

    3
    By sansfoi
    I’ve used Gaia for a number of years and generally am satisfied with the interface and ability to plan trips on a desktop browser. But the downloading of offline maps is horrendous. Just absolutely awful in almost every way. First of all, it takes ages. We’re talking hours, days maybe, for a few megabytes of data. That much data should take a few seconds by today’s data transfer standards. But to make matters worse, the feedback you get from the app is unreliable at best. It’s very difficult to know for sure if your download is even happening at all, let alone when it might complete. So you’re out traveling, maybe you haven’t downloaded every leg of your trip yet because of storage space or a flexible itinerary. You know you’re about to go out of service and need to get that next map section. What do you do? Sit in a truck stop for a few hours, a few days, hoping that data comes through? Pitiful.

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