Confidently navigate outdoors with Outdooractive - Hike and Ride: The outdoor navigation app trusted by trail wardens, tour guides, mountain rescue and outdoor industry professionals.
You can join a community of outdoor experts, discover new hikes, cycles, runs and walks with confidence with our detailed maps and safety features.
What does Outdooractive offer: Are you looking for trails, routes or activities near you? Outdooractive helps you to get outdoors, with thousands of officially-approved routes around the world. Follow expert routes and tours, or plan routes yourself with tools trusted by professionals.
You can easily plan outdoor routes with our route planner, or find your way to hidden gems, tourist destinations, famous trails and much more with routes from industry experts.
Whether you cycle, hike, run, walk or ski, Outdooractive has tools for you to navigate outdoors.
Experience more with our Outdooractive PRO and PRO+ free trial. Access official topo maps and route tours, as well as location sharing, route exploration with flyover previews and skyline discovery.
• Find routes perfect for you: Whether you build routes in our route planner, or find routes planned by experts, you can review all routes for important details like route difficulty, distance, elevation profiles, local scenery and facilities, images, videos and much more, and track these changes as you move with up to date trail conditions based on GPS data.
• Join a community of outdoor experts: Whether you are planning walks, training runs, or exploring hikes, you can join regular hiking, cycling, running and other active challenges to stay motivated, collaborate with others, and be inspired by official content from over thousands of outdoor tourism partners.
• Offline Navigation: Download routes and save plans offline for reliable navigation even without internet or signal. Continue tracking hiking routes, MTB trails, cycling paths and more even without signal.
• Safety Features: 1) Share your location: Give you and your loved ones peace of mind with BuddyBeacon, sharing your location as you go. 2) Up-to-date route conditions: track weather reports, route conditions, route closures and more with accurate route safety information. 3) Use our Emergency Call button in the worst case scenario, to be patched straight through to emergency services.
• Connect Smartwatches and Devices: Connect Outdooractive with WEAR OS, Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto and other popular smartwatches to sync hiking routes, cycling activity, running tracks and activity recording, and navigate with ease.
• Access official map layers: Using Outdooractive means you have access to the most reliable outdoor maps around the world. You can find official topo maps from partners across 25 countries including: UK: Ordnance Survey and Harvey Maps, New Zealand: Land Information, USA: USGS, German: BKG, Austria: BEV, Switzerland: Swisstopo, France: IGN, Spain: CNIG, Netherlands: PDOK, Norway: Kartverket, Denmark: Kortforsyningen, Sweden: Lantmäteriet, Finland: National Land Survey, Japan: GSI, As well as official Alpine Club maps for climbing in the Alps, and our expert Outdooractive map layer in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• FAQs: 1) Can Outdooractive help me find walking trails near me? Outdooractive helps you find walking, hiking, cycling and many more types of trails both in your area, and around the world.
2) How do I find hiking trails near me?: Using Outdooractive, you're able to find hiking trails in your local area by opening our app and browsing the map. You'll be able to see hiking trails with a range of distances, difficulties and distance from your location.
3) Can I download offline maps to navigate walks and find areas to hike near me?: Outdooractive allows you to download maps and download routes to your device before heading out, to help you navigate those areas where signal isn't guaranteed.
Updated on
28 Oct 2025
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Maurice Camps
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29 January 2022
I was using view ranger before. There are a bunch of things outdoor active does well, but oh my God, try to put a point of interest on the map: is absolutely horrible. If you are on the map you want to just be able to add something, not get into a new window where you see the whole world map again. Then when you look for a specific point but can't find it... You look for something close, but then when you zoom in the POI moves! Oh my... Please change this soon... It's bad! Only 3 stars for now.
9 people found this review helpful
Stuart Lawton
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1 November 2025
it's got all the maps you need, but the interface is so complicated. I search for a route from all the community members (fantastic, there's loads of them) but how the heck do I follow one. there are so many buttons to press, all very confusing. I expect, if you take ages to learn the interface, the app is great, but if you want to find a route and follow it, you need a PhD. there must be easier, cheaper options out there. tracks, plans, routes, my maps. who knows what I need to use. to hard.
Outdooractive AG
3 November 2025
When you find a route, select it, so you are looking at its details. At the bottom is the button to navigate it. Or also at the bottom a button to bookmark it - so you can save it, then late use My Page, Collections to select and navigate it.
John Dunn
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29 September 2025
l found it useful when walking in Ireland to have proper maps available for an overseas location. However the app is very confusing. Not sure why we have Plans, Routes and Tracks. It's very difficult to navigate, particularly when the thumbnails don't match the route. Not intuitive at all. I much prefer OS Maps in the UK.
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Outdooractive AG
1 October 2025
A track is a recording of a journey, it has timestamps along the line taken, shows all the small deviations for the precise trail taken. Plans and routes are both for planned journeys. A plan is always personal, a draft. A route will have descriptions and more details, and is intended for publishing. For personal use, use a plan.
What's new
In this version we fixed some bugs and made some performance improvements. Do you have any questions or suggestions? Shoot us an email to service@outdooractive.com Your Outdooractive Team