Trailforks Blog

or your computer, if you're old school.

Visualize climbs, descents, and everything in between more easily than ever before.

The mapping app is now available in their ELEMNT range of GPS bike computers.

We want to highlight some key features so riders can find the best trail conditions in the shoulder season.

If the tools are calling your name, RSVP for that volunteer trail day and read this.

We've added some new features to help riders quickly see which trails are ready to ride.

Trailforks now has a feature that made it easy to document and visualize the iconic routes of loosely connected trails.

Introducing new feature to help you plan your next adventure.

Trailforks now displays information to show how much you are jumping, and helps inform riders about the jump-ability of any trail.

Trailforks CIQ app now works on the Garmin wearables like the Forerunner and Fenix watches.
Check out the article about some of the useful features when following a route with a watch.

Trail mapping app Trailforks is introducing a paid option in order to continue improving its mapping and trail management capabilities.

It's never too late to donate to your local trail association.

Trail associations need your help more than ever to maintain the trails for you.

2019 was a huge year for Trailforks. Here are some of the highlights.

We've entered a 4-year agreement through 2023 with the Sea Otter Classic as the Official Media and Mapping Partner of the event.

These five groups are going above and beyond when it comes to protecting, investing and advocating for public spaces and trails we choose to recreate on.

We have an official winner for the 30 Day Ride Challenge. Drum roll please...

This new Trailforks App feature shows a rider the characteristics of a trail. At a glance know if there are punchy climbs, steep sections or hike-a-bike uphills on a trail.

Who deserves particular attention for their efforts to improve our riding and our world? Here's our short list.

The Trailforks crew has been hard at work this year and there have been a MASSIVE number of changes to the website, app, and backend. They're all listed here.

Explore Whistler’s trail network and record your rides on Trailforks for your chance to win!

Enter the Emily Batty MSA Challenge presented by Red Bull to win a trip to the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec.

We've partnered with Whistler Brewing to create a hazy, juicy, summer crusher, the "Hazy Trail Pale Ale," just in time for Crankworx Whistler. Join us at our launch event on August 1st in Whistler!

Trailforks has a new directory that compiles all of your favourite mountain bike YouTube content in one spot. It's also integrated into the app, and videos from YouTube channels are prioritized when you're exploring for a new spot to ride.

Leave the phone in your pocket. Trailforks now available on Garmin Edge handle bar mounted devices.

Land owner overlay, historical heatmaps, ride start heatmaps, auto-direction, and print maps. Tools that we make that help trail associations make and maintain great trail networks.

Utilizing the data collected from the Trailforks ridelog we have the top ten riding locations in Canada.

You can now generate high dpi printable maps for events, kiosks, trail signage.
Using the new Trailforks Print Maps Interface, users are able to select various map layers and produce large scale maps in both screen and printer friendly output formats

We looked at the data for the month of July to see what were the most popular riding areas for the Month of July.

Trailforks benefits Search and Rescue crew. Read more about it here.

GPS Tracking, Strava segment overlay, Event section, Popular routes, US Landowner overlay, Map filtering, Comments, and much more.

You can now use Trailforks in conjunction with your Garmin using the new Trailforks Garmin Basemap. Currently in its first release, we're busy working on new features and are keen to get user feedback. Full details inside.

The guys from Trailforks have been splicing an dicing various shapefiles from a variety of sources to build its land owner polygon database.

In this latest Trailforks tutorial, we take you through how to add trail builder details to a trail, allowing you to find a professional trail builder and look at their past projects.

Plan a mountain biking road trip using this tool and discover the best riding areas, trails & events along your route.

Following on with the winter theme, this latest installment of Trailforks Tutorials takes you through how to map and view all-season and winter only trails.

Don't want people riding certain trails in winter or want to let riders know about the conditions? Check out how to close an entire riding area using the Bulk Trail Report tool in our latest Trailforks tutorial.

When you name a trail Kitchen Sink, then you'd better have every type of feature on it.

Are you wanting to know what your local shop sells or are you the local shop and you want riders to know what brands that you carry? This Trailforks Tutorial is for you.

The Pinkbike/Trailforks Directory is a massive collection of bike shops, club, trail associations, professional builders, guiding outfits, and race organizers and they are all at your finger tips.

With our Ride Planner feature, you can prepare a route ahead of time and save it for future rides.

It's been one year since the launch of the Trailforks app and we've recently released a new app update and have a range of new features to follow.

Rolling into a new zone and wondering which trail is a must ride? Well, the Trailforks app can help.

You're about to go riding and want to know what shape the trails are in, you check the reports. When you are done riding, please add one for the next riders.

Want to know how to connect Trailforks to Strava to import your rides? We've created this handy guide so you can use Trailforks to view your ride logs, track your rides, and check out your personal statistics.

You can now route a trail to include roads and work along OpenStreetMap roads near trails on the Trailforks database.

Learn how to add a routes found on Trailfork to the App on your Smartphone.

This month we venture to Costa Rica to find out more about the Los Senderos de Colón Bike Park and its newest downhill trail, El Ciclón.

We are big fans of the riding in Oregon and it's exciting to see a new area like this putting in the time to make some more quality trails for all to enjoy.

Just like Google and Bing, Trailforks now generates its own custom map layer. 1.6 billion map tile images, 34 million km of road/track/contour, 7 terabytes of SSDs.
This is what it takes to do it ...

Trails are like relationships, we’re all looking for the right one for us. TrailTinder matches you with your perfect ride!

With over 100 miles of trail ranging from flow to technical rides, Duluth is an incredible place to ride and it offers something for everyone all year-round.

Professional trail builders, everyday volunteers and a ton of passion have gone into the Cowichan Trail Stewardship Society and it might just be where you want to plan your next bike trip.

Associations all over the world are breaking ground to open new trails for all of us riders and we want to give thanks by introducing a new group monthly with our Front Lines series.

A small town in Nova Scotia are making things happen for the mountain biking community by investing in the development of trails and skills areas.

This month's epic comes to us from Ontario, Canada and it holds true to its name.

This week the Trailforks team will be an Interbike to showcase the app and answer any questions you might have, so make sure you stop by their booth.

Check out the Trailforks app for iOS and Android. Get 30,000 trails in your pocket now!

One doesn't have to wander too far from many major cities to find gems like the Agreement Forest and the trails within.

Every month a new sick trail is featured and it makes us want to travel all over the world and ride these gems.

Steve Peat and Claudio Caluori collaborated on this track and it's the next course that will be seeing the World Cup DH racers hitting. Welcome to the STRAIGHTline.

Santa Cruz was once famous for illegal trails, but thanks to organized riders there is a change in the air with new developments like the recently finished Flow trail.

Do you road trip or just ride locally and don't know how to give support back to the trails? Trailforks is here to make it all easier and to get those funds to the right associations in order to continue improving trail infrastructure around the world.

We here at Pinkbike love our annual pilgrimages to Arizona for the abundance of great trails and amazing weather.

With Crankworx Rotorua around the corner, the Trailforks Trail of the Month is Eagle vs Shark.

All trailforks data is now topologically correct, which means we can have full routing abilities. Check out the video demo showing how easy it is to create routes that span multiple trails, get full route elevation profile, distance, etc. A great planning tool for creating and sharing your favorite route, rides, and planning race courses.

Hornby Island has rich tales in mountain bike's history books and it's trails like Purgatory that have written these chapters.

Luvin Shovels in Perth, Australia, is the Trailforks Trail of the Month for January.

This month's Trailforks Trail of the Month is Zen, in the state of Utah.

Trailforks is a trail management system for riders, builders and associations. We are creating the largest, most accurate GPS trail directory in the world.

Dirt Merchant in Whistler, BC is one of the world's most famous jump lines and there's good reason for that. Check out Trailforks Trail of the Month inside.

The first installment of the Trailforks Trail of the Month finds us in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria and their vast Bike Park nestled in the Austrian Alps.