onX Backcountry

Discover backcountry adventure with trusted GPS, 3D maps & guidebook content.

▶The Ultimate GPS Map App for Your Outdoor Pursuits

onX Backcountry lets you easily find and navigate trails—whether you’re seeking new backcountry skiing lines, climbing routes, or hiking trails and mountain bike trails. Plan your hiking trails and mountain bikes trails with the best trail maps and trustworthy info, and navigate confidently with offline trail maps and GPS tracking.

▶Discover New Adventures

Whether navigating mountain bike trails, hiking trails, skiing routes, or a backpacking trip, we’ve got you covered with over 650k miles of trails.

▶Prep Better With Powerful Trail Maps Tools

We adventure in three dimensions, and your trail maps should reflect that. With a 3D map, you can visualize mountain bike trails, scout skiing 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 to plan your skiing adventure. Map out custom hiking trails and mountain bike trails with snap-to-trail functionality, and use Waypoints, Slope Angle, Slope Aspect, Trail Slope, and Wildfire Layers for detailed hike planning.

▶Hike & Navigate Without Cell Coverage

Save Offline Trail 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 hiking trails & mountain biking trails 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 trail 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 skiing 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 Trail Maps for offline trail maps 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 backcountry hiking trails, mountain bike trails, climbing, and skiing trails

Private Land Layer-ELITE ONLY: Private property maps & 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 trail maps, unlimited offline downloads, trail info, and guidebook backcountry skiing 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 [email protected].

▶ Your Four Season Adventure App

Whether you’re into hiking trails, mountain bike trails, skiing, or backpacking trips, our app has the features you need to plan, navigate, and share your adventures. Download and start your next hiking, skiing, or mountain biking journey with onX Backcountry. From hiking trails, skiing, to enjoyable mountain bike trails, onX Backcountry has everything you need.