Gaia GPS: Offline Trail Maps

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About this app

Plan, navigate, and explore outside with Gaia GPS—the trusted app for discovering hiking trails, campsites, and winter activities like skiing and snowboarding. Download the premier outdoor activity app featured in publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and GearJunkie. Find backpacking adventures with topographic maps. Hike with detailed GPS navigation, real-time weather, color-coded steepness layers, and key waypoints like campsites, water sources, and trail access info. Find public land and local routes to map your own trail. Whether you’re looking for campsites, off-roading routes, hiking trails, backpacking opportunities, or ski tracks, discover more outdoors this winter with Gaia GPS.

Whether you’re trekking a snowy pass, backpacking deep in the backcountry, or out for a day hike, navigate it all with Gaia GPS’s powerful collection of winter maps and navigation tools for skiing and snowboarding.

Find public land trails for backpacking, off-roading, or running. Navigate with offline maps, GPS tracking, weather updates, and campsite info—all in one backcountry navigation app.

BACKPACKING OR HIKING
• Hiking is easier when utilizing the largest collection of trails and routes available on Gaia Hike, a global map built for hikers
• Plan a route with point-to-point navigation from anywhere
• Get turn-by-turn directions to any trailhead
• Backpacking from base camp all along hiking trails and back again is easy with waypoint breadcrumbs
• Distance tracker with altitude and elevation monitoring for every winter activity
• Discover new routes for trail running on public land
• National parks or scenic hiking trails – Discover new outdoor routes waiting to be explored

SKIING AND SNOWBOARDING TRAILS
• Discover ski slopes and cross-country skiing trails around you with best-in-class topographic maps
• Get ski reports for weather conditions and Nordic trails from OnTheSnow for skiing and snowboarding

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 for navigating in outdoor activities and information on trails

OFF-ROAD ACTIVITY PLANNING
• 4x4 & overlanding adventures are easy to record on Gaia GPS
• Activity tracker and route planner make trekking, hiking, and backpacking off-road trails simple
• Trails, maps, routes, and waypoints displayed on Android Auto

FISHING ON PUBLIC LAND
• Find a new favorite fishing spot with two all-new interactive map layers.
• Get streamflow and water temperature information from the new USGS Streamflow map
• Test the brand new Gaia Fishing Map with boat access information and known fish species for select waterways in Montana and Oklahoma.


ELEVATE YOUR OUTDOOR ADVENTURES WITH GAIA GPS PREMIUM WITH OUTSIDE+
• Access 300+ maps
• Offline maps to download anytime
• Weather, terrain, and safety features
• Unlimited access to Trailforks, the largest database of trails for any outdoor activity.
• Premium access to award-winning films, shows, and live TV on Outside Watch
• Unlimited digital access to Outside Network's 15 brands, including Outside, Backpacker, and National Park Trips

SIGNUP
• Gaia GPS is part of Outside, Inc. Create an Outside account to access the app.

TO MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION:
• TURN OFF auto-renewal: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481
• Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Google Play account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period.

• Your Google Play Account will be charged at confirmation of purchase.
• Privacy Policy: http://www.gaiagps.com/gaiacloud-terms/
• Terms of use: http://www.gaiagps.com/terms_of_use
Find hikes, download backcountry maps, explore trails, discover offroad routes
Updated on
Sep 11, 2026
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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 4 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

21.2K reviews
Lauren Chalk
May 19, 2026
Used this app for several years now, and it has been great, but recently become incredibly glitchy and essentially unusable. An inability to edit my routes without the entire app crashing, and sometimes when I open the app, all my routes won't load for several minutes, makes navigation while trail running extremely difficult. That, plus the fact that the android subscription is more expensive than apple (why??) means when my subscription renews next month I might just go somewhere else.
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Shaun Crewe
September 4, 2024
I really loved this app. I found it accurate and detailed, showing me trails and footpaths for the area, I considered hiking in. It also had a little arrow, showing your position on the map. Since the upgrade and Outside Magazine taking it over, I find it very frustrating to use, always having to sign in and then go through advertising wanting you to buy a subscription before getting to maps. The maps no longer pinpoint your position, which, I find disappointing. Why ruin a good thing?
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Misha SWB
January 5, 2025
The paths only appear when you zoom in really far. They should be visible sooner. Also, the names of places take up too much space. The names expand as you zoom in also. Its frustrating trying to see a path, trying to see where you want the route to go and yet there is a name of a place blocking the view. The app is for routes, placenames are secondary.
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Outside, Inc.
January 7, 2025
Sorry for the trouble. Please contact Support so we can help: https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

What’s new

In this update, we’ve packed our bags with stability improvements and map enhancements to keep your outdoor adventures running smoothly.

What’s New & Improved:
Map Styling Fixes: Layer merging, font scaling, and opacity styling are now sharper and clearer.
Adventure Ready: Added support for Adventure Mode links.
Smoother Performance: Fixed a saved list crash, improved app startup, and resolved account re-authentication issues.
Happy trails!