Gaia GPS: Offroad Hiking Maps

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About this app

Plan trips and stay safer in the woods, with Gaia GPS.

Join hundreds of thousands of backpackers, hunters, offroaders, mountain bikers, backcountry skiers, firefighters, guides, and other serious outdoor adventurers and professionals that use Gaia GPS for work and play. Hike, hunt, and offroad with the best topo maps and outdoor navigation tools.

►► The Best App for Topo Maps

Gaia GPS has been showcased in Apple's "Your Verse" stories, and covered in countless major publications, from Outside and TrailRunner, to the New York Times and FOX News TappedIn.

The name Gaia (guy-yuh) comes from Greek mythology - she is the Goddess of the Earth, or Mother Nature.

►► Maps

• view easy-to-read, modern maps, with fast and beautiful rendering

• explore historic and classic print maps (NRCan, USGS, USFS, IGN)

• download worldwide topo, road, and satellite maps

• search for hiking trails, parks, natural places, and addresses, and tap features on Gaia Topo to get more info

►► Sync and Back-up

• sync your tracks, photos, maps, and waypoints to all of your devices

• keep your data backed up, effortlessly

• share trip plans, and collaborate on shared folders

►► Map Tools

• record tracks, waypoints, and take geo-tagged photos

• import and export GPX and KML files

• customize coordinates types (Decimal, Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Degrees - Decimal Minutes, UTM, and MGRS)

►► Membership Levels

Free Level - You can use Gaia GPS for free. You'll be limited to the default map source, and you won't be able to download maps for offline use.

Member Level - As a Member, you can download a worldwide catalog of topo, road, and satellite maps.

Premium Member Level - As a Premium Member, you also get access to these map sources:

• NatGeo Trails Illustrated
• ESRI World Satellite Imagery
• France IGN
• SwissTopo
• US Private Land Ownership (owners and addresses for parcels)
• US Hunting Layers, including GMUs, public land, and fires
• US NeoTreks Topo
• US Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM)
• Hill-shading, contour lines, slope angle, and other overlays
Plan, navigate, and stay safer in the woods. Topo maps and trails for hikers.
Updated on
Sep 11, 2026

Data safety

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

21.3K 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!
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App support

Phone number
+14153357447
About the developer
Outside Interactive Inc.
support@gaiagps.com
5565 Arapahoe Ave Unit F Boulder, CO 80303-1539 United States
+1 855-599-0804

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