MTB Trail Apps

I use google maps and Ride with GPS a whole lot of imagination for finding new stuff:Roflmao:rolleyes::eek:.

All my rides are saved to Strava mostly as a database anymore. I don’t use it to plan rides but I do watch it to see what and where others are riding.

Ride with GPS is great for planning and mapping out new rides but not so much for seeing where others are riding.
 
Voodoo Tom said:
I use google maps and Ride with GPS a whole lot of imagination for finding new stuff:Roflmao:rolleyes::eek:.

All my rides are saved to Strava mostly as a database anymore. I don’t use it to plan rides but I do watch it to see what and where others are riding.

Ride with GPS is great for planning and mapping out new rides but not so much for seeing where others are riding.
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Be careful taking advice from @Voodoo Tom related to finding new trails.... I'm his ride partner... :gotnothing::whistling:

No seriously,
Tom and I often ride "different" kinds of mountain biking more along the lines of adventure rides and not the mainstream stuff most people ride.
If you have a paid subscription to STRAVA (I don't) you can use the heat map to find what many people in a given area ride. That can certainly lead to finding out what is the most popular.
Great for group rides with no surprises.

All Trails is predominately a hikers website so I only use it to see if there are "any" trails in a given area.
Trail Forks and MTB Project are great, but only as good as the people who choose to post up their trails. But that is what most people are looking for.
There is an abundance of trails that never make it on to any of these formats either because the locals don't care or record and post, don't want the public in general to know of the trails, or they are "off menu".

I use a combination of STRAVA, Google Earth, Google Maps, Trail Forks, and Ride with GPS to put together my new rides. Tom and I often get ideas from people we follow on STRAVA and then invent our version... he has hated me severely on many occasions because of it...:coffee:

;)Mikie
 
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As others have said, Strava is more of a repository for rides past. I also use it to see what others are riding... I have a few rides in the hopper right now that were inspired by others' routes. :thumbsup: The global heat map, though, is illuminating. It will show all of the areas that have been hiked or ridden since they started collecting data. That's pretty cool... Combined with Google Earth, it's a great research tool.

I also subscribe to Veloviewer. It pulls the data from Strava, but offers so much more geekery. :eek:

On the trail? I've used MTB Project, and it's saved my bacon a couple times when I wasn't sure which way to go... I remember one occasion so well, because it was raining, and 35 degrees, and I was completely alone on the mountain. :inlove:

More recently, I've started using Trailforks. It works...
 
Mikie said:
Be careful taking advice from @Voodoo Tom related to finding new trails.... I'm his ride partner... :gotnothing::whistling:

No seriously,
Tom and I often ride "different" kinds of mountain biking more along the lines of adventure rides and not the mainstream stuff most people ride.
If you have a paid subscription to STRAVA (I don't) you can use the heat map to find what many people in a given area ride. That can certainly lead to finding out what is the most popular.
Great for group rides with no surprises.

All Trails is predominately a hikers website so I only use it to see if there are "any" trails in a given area.
Trail Forks and MTB Project are great, but only as good as the people who choose to post up their trails. But that is what most people are looking for.
There is an abundance of trails that never make it on to any of these formats either because the locals don't care or record and post, don't want the public in general to know of the trails, or they are "off menu".

I use a combination of STRAVA, Google Earth, Google Maps, Trail Forks, and Ride with GPS to put together my new rides. Tom and I often get ideas from people we follow on STRAVA and then invent our version... he has hated me severely on many occasions because of it...:coffee:

;)Mikie
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All great ideas! Thanks! I have a paid Strava subscription so I think I'm going to take your advice and look into the heatmap thing. Always wondered how to use the heatmap..thanks! :)
 
Geetarguy said:
I know a lot of you use Strava (I do) but it's not the best place to find new trails IMO. I have used these before: MTB Project & AllTrails. What are you guys using?
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My bicycle.....

I also have just driven up the mountain until I saw a likely spot. That's how I found Mt Lukens. I live in the flats near Mickey's house, so to get to climbing I have to drive. Unless I feel like doing a century...
 
mtnbikej said:
I like to fly blind.
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These could help, yes?

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Generally speaking, Trailforks is by far the best in my opinion but is lacking in some areas. Oddly enough, it seems MTB Project fills in the gaps most of the time. Trailforks has literally saved our bacon 8-10 times when we've been out of town on trails that are new to us.
 
mtbMike said:
Generally speaking, Trailforks is by far the best in my opinion but is lacking in some areas. Oddly enough, it seems MTB Project fills in the gaps most of the time. Trailforks has literally saved our bacon 8-10 times when we've been out of town on trails that are new to us.
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There's a trail I'm eyeing up that shows up on neither of those... I was pretty surprised. It's legal for bikes, and has been ridden recently, but it only shows up on hiker websites. :whistling:

And I ponied up for the Trailforks premium... There are enough trails up here that it's more than worth the price. Now if only they'd stop burning...
 
Faust29 said:
There's a trail I'm eyeing up that shows up on neither of those... I was pretty surprised. It's legal for bikes, and has been ridden recently, but it only shows up on hiker websites. :whistling:

And I ponied up for the Trailforks premium... There are enough trails up here that it's more than worth the price. Now if only they'd stop burning...
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Yeah, I was surprised that for the longest time, most of the Palm Canyon Epic wasn't on either platform. When it did come up, it was only the lower stuff below the sand wash and that was on MTB Project.
 
mtbMike said:
Generally speaking, Trailforks is by far the best in my opinion but is lacking in some areas. Oddly enough, it seems MTB Project fills in the gaps most of the time. Trailforks has literally saved our bacon 8-10 times when we've been out of town on trails that are new to us.
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I think trail forks is by far the better app, but mtbproject had better/more complete data and trails (for San Gabe's anyway).

I've been slowly adding missing trails around the San Gabriel valley,to trailforks since I moved here. And lots of new stuff showing up often...
 
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