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Every trail in your state, and the ones nobody published

By Fred Kix · 29 October 2026 · trails

A good map starts with good trails. The first time you open GroupTrack, it loads every trail in your home state. After that, every ride you record adds to it.

Trails are what everything else in GroupTrack is built on. The route planner can only use the trails it knows about, so I put a lot of work into getting you the most complete set I could.

Your home state, the first time you open it

The first screen asks for your home state. GroupTrack picks it from where you are, and you can change it if you mostly ride somewhere else. Tap the load button and it gathers your state's trails from every source that publishes them: OpenStreetMap, and the Forest Service, BLM, National Park Service and USGS where they publish trails.

It needs the internet and takes a few minutes for each source. You'll see each one go by. It's a one-time job. After that, every trail in your state is on your tablet with no signal needed.

Riding in another state?

Open Map on the bottom of the map. Import trails by state loads a whole state. Import trails by area lets you draw a box around where you'll ride, even across a state line, and loads just that.

Rider trails: the ones nobody published

Published trail maps miss a lot. When you record a track over ground where no trail is known, GroupTrack adds that stretch to your map as a rider trail. You rode it, so it's rideable. Next time you plan a route, the planner can use it.

So your map gets better every time you go out. The more you ride, the more complete it gets.

Public or private land?

Every trail is marked as on public or private land. In FILTER, on the right side of the map, you can show only one or the other, so you can see where a trail crosses private land before you go.

Next article: Make the map show what you need