United StatesDiscover and explore Colorado’s unique trail experiences with the Colorado Trail Explorer. Available for free, COTREX offers the most comprehensive trail map available for the state and is built atop data from over 230 trail managers. View trails by allowed uses on the map, browse featured routes, download offline maps, record trips and notes in the field, complete challenges to earn badges, and share your experiences with the community. COTREX is your gateway into Colorado’s magnificent outdoors. ■ DISCOVER TRAILS & FEATURED ROUTES – Browse or search to find trails and Feature Routes that match your activities or interests. – Change activity type to dynamically filter trails on the map. ■ OFFLINE MAPS – No cell coverage? No problem! Download maps ahead of time for a continuous experience that doesn’t depend on your network. – COTREX offline maps are lightweight in size and easy to download. ■ RECORD TRIPS & FIELD NOTES – Capture the details of your outdoor experiences by recording Trips. – Go beyond simple photos by taking and classifying rich Field Notes along the way. Choose from 45,000+ classifications that include trail conditions, species, rocks and minerals, historic places, points of interest, and much more. – Seamlessly sync activity recorded on your devices with the web. ■ COMPLETE CHALLENGES TO EARN BADGES – By recording and classifying Field Notes, you can complete Challenges and earn Badges for your profile. ■ SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY – Inform and inspire the entire COTREX community by sharing your Trips and Field Notes publicly or submitting Trip Reports. – View activity feeds for all users or just the ones you follow. – By sharing your experiences, you also help to inform trail managers about current conditions on the ground. ■ ABOUT COTREX The Colorado Trail Explorer endeavors to map every trail in the state of Colorado in support of the Colorado the Beautiful Initiative. COTREX connects people, trails, and technology by coordinating the efforts of federal, state, county, and local agencies to create a comprehensive repository of recreational trails for public use. This project is led by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and Department of Natural Resources, but is only made possible through partnerships with organizations at every level statewide. COTREX represents a seamless network of trails managed by over 230 land managers. ■ DISCLAIMERS [Battery Life] We do everything we can to make the app low power when recording, but GPS is notorious for reducing battery life Terms: https://trails.colorado.gov/terms Privacy Policy: https://trails.colorado.gov/privacy
Wildly Inaccurate
This app needs it mapping updated terribly. Hiking trails that have been opened or closed in the last five years have not been updated. Forest service roads from the last twenty years are not updated. Some areas have been sold to private citizens so using this app you will find yourself trespassing or having to turn around without completing a trail. Seasonal closures are also wildly inaccurate. If this is a state ran app then this is why the government needs less control. Some features are awesome like planning your route, elevation change and more accurate distances than AllTrails. Yet the apps shortcomings are aggravating and dangerous to say the least.
United StatesBest Trail App
Such a good app, I use it every time I go hiking. Many useful features. Essential tool for anyone in Colorado. I wish it had CarPlay integration, it would be useful when navigating backroads!
United StatesBest app by far
I’ve tried them all, this is the clear winner and it’s free. I wish other states would add in this this but thankfully 99 percent of my hiking is in Colorado. Could the developers add game unit, private land, and previous wild fire layers? That is the only thing this app is missing but even without this, this is the best app I’ve ever used and I’ve paid for most the others. Good work devs!
United StatesPlease make a Garmin friendly app!
I would really like to use the new Garmin watches for a GPS on OHV and single track trails for a quick glance rather than stopping to pull out a phone. Only way this app could get better in my opinion.
United StatesQuirky
I had high hopes for this app, but unfortunately it's useless. It can't receive a GPS signal (and yes, my phone has buit-in GPS). It just kept saying it's unable to lock on to GPS because it doesn't have access to location services, yet there is no option anywhere I can find in the app or on the iPhone's settings to grant said access. The app doesn't appear in the list of apps in the iPhone "Privacy" settings, so there's no way to grant access there, and there are no options within the settings of the app itself to grant access. Once I deleted and reinstalled the app, thugh, it properly registered itself with iOS and was able to access location services.
United StatesFor me, a necessity
I love this app. Lets you make notes about what you encounter, lets you see national forest/park boundaries, record your hikes/drives/etc… I use it all the time and like that the info is “from the horse’s mouth” (from the state itself, not from a 3rd party). Just super well done. I also appreciate the recently added feature of being able to trim your recordings in the event you forget to stop it before you drive back from a hike.
United StatesGreat app
This is such a good app and better than paid ones like Rever for motorcycle riding, in a perfect world it will soon work with apple carplay
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- Fixed crash affecting devices using iOS 12
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