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Drop a pin on where you want to go

By Fred Kix · 29 October 2026 · route planning

Got a spot you want to see, a lake, an arch, a lunch stop? Drop a pin on it, up to five, and GroupTrack builds routes that take you there.

The planner is happy to choose a ride for you. But most of us have a place in mind. Pins let you say "go here" without having to work out how to get there.

Drop your pins

When you plan a route with AI route design, one of the steps asks whether you want to add places to visit. Tap the map where you want to go. You can drop up to five pins. Then carry on as normal: how long a ride, and where to finish.

It tells you straight away if a pin can't be reached

Sometimes a spot looks close but there's no trail that connects it to where you're parked. Instead of drawing a straight line across a canyon, GroupTrack checks each pin the moment you drop it. If there's no way to get there on the trails you have, it says so: "No route to this pin." Move the pin onto a trail nearby and try again.

GroupTrack starts from any trail within half a mile of your trailhead and looks in every direction, so a pin on a trail you can actually reach is accepted.

Finish where you like

By default the route brings you back to the trailhead. If you'd rather end somewhere else, drop a pin where you want to finish.

Why a route might skip a pin

Every route the planner builds has to fit the length you asked for. If one pin is a long way off, some routes will reach the others and leave that one out, because they find more worth seeing along the way. That's on purpose. Compare the routes and keep the one that reaches the places that matter most to you.

Prefer to draw it yourself?

Choose Build it myself instead. Tap points along the way and GroupTrack joins them along the real trails. Dropped one in the wrong place? Undo takes it back.

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