Offline packs
Route, waypoints, shelter records, service previews, and cached map areas.
The offline-first Appalachian Trail app
Carry the trail in your pocket.
Offline maps of all 2,197 miles, shelters and water, register notes, trail magic, and hiker culture — built to keep working when the bars disappear.
Free while in beta · $29.99/year at launch · Beta testers get their first year free
- Offline firstWhole-trail topo, zero bars
- Live trail cultureRegisters, magic, chat
- Private by defaultYou choose what's shared
Straight from the app
This is the real thing.
Not a mockup — these are un-retouched screens from the build hikers are carrying right now. Tap through the map, a place, and the elevation ahead.
The whole A.T. on offline topo, with shelters, water, and services.
Now on TestFlight
Hike it before everyone else.
TrailDash is live on TestFlight with hikers on trail right now. Scan the code or tap the button and you are in — no waiting, no approval. Free while in beta.
Point your iPhone camera at the code, or:
Join on TestFlightiPhone today — you will need Apple's free TestFlight app. It takes about a minute. At launch TrailDash is $29.99/year. Beta testers who share one piece of feedback get their first year free.
Straight from the current build
Real screens, real trail.
Un-retouched screenshots from the TestFlight build hikers are carrying this week.
Offline packs
Trail culture
Register notes, trail magic, hiker profiles, badges, and opt-in social context.
Privacy first
Share location, profile, contacts, journal, and pack details only when you choose.
AT first, not AT only
TrailDash should feel ready for many trails from day one.
Appalachian Trail
Offline map, shelters, water, register, trail magic, social layers, and town context.
Pacific Crest Trail
Long-distance route and resupply model with a lighter, trail-specific field layer.
Continental Divide Trail
Remote navigation, alternates, water context, and offline-first field notes.
Long Trail, Camino, and more
The brand stays wide enough for smaller regional routes and international walking trails.
For the folks who keep hikers fed, clean, and moving
Run a hostel, campground, shuttle, or gear shop near the trail?
TrailDash puts your place on the map hikers actually carry — with the things they decide by: beds left tonight, your prices, what you offer, and a way to reach you before they are standing in your driveway.
“3 bunks left” beats phone tag.
Update beds, campsites, and prices from your phone or a tablet on the desk. One tap. Hikers a day out see it right away.
Requests, not surprises.
Hikers can ask ahead for a bunk, a campsite, or a resupply run. You confirm or decline. Payment stays at your door, the way it always has.
Tell the bubble tonight’s news.
“Live music at 7.” “Kitchen closes early.” One short note reaches hikers within a few miles of you. Two a day, tops — we keep the trail quiet.
Free. Actually free.
No listing fee, no commission, nobody can pay to outrank you. Founding partners keep it that way for good.
Register your place
Takes about five minutes. A real person reviews every claim and gets back to you within a day or two.
What the app holds
Less noise. More useful trail context.
What’s ahead, who sleeps where, water at a glance.
Digital shelter logbooks, tied to real places.
Requests and drops, with trust cues.
Family sees your last shared position on a web page.
One tap prefills every emergency contact — you stay in control.
Trail-wide, weather, recipes, your tramily.
Summit forecasts and live radar over the trail.
GPS-verified stamps, a hat you decorate.
Straight answers
Questions hikers actually ask.
Does it really work with no service?
Yes. The maps, shelters, water sources, and your own notes are stored on your phone. Messages and updates queue and send when you get signal.
Why $29.99 when the big alternative costs $75?
$29.99 a year gets you the whole trail and every update we ship. We’d rather have more hikers than higher margins.
Wait, is this a subscription now?
Yes — $29.99/year at launch. We know earlier copy said otherwise, and we don’t want to slide that past anyone. If you’re testing the beta and share even one piece of feedback, your first year is free when we launch.
iPhone only?
iPhone beta today. Android is on the roadmap.
Is my location shared?
Only if you choose. Everything is off by default; you decide what hikers, friends, and family can see, and you can turn it off any time.
Where does the trail data come from?
Public map data and the official centerline, checked against the trail mile by mile — plus corrections from hikers on the trail right now. Every waypoint shows when it was last verified.
I run a business on the trail — what’s the catch?
No catch. Listing, live capacity, reservations, and blasts are free for trail businesses, forever. We make our money from the hiker app, not from you.
See you out there
Come walk with us.
TrailDash is built with the hikers and trail towns of the A.T. — join the beta and help shape it.