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onX Backcountry Premium
Whatever the activity whatever, your experience level, whatever the season—your next adventure starts here.
- Explore hundreds of thousands of hiking trails, rock climbing routes, mountain bike trails, and backcountry ski runs.
- Complete Public Land maps show clearly marked National Forests, Bureau of Land Management Land, Wilderness Areas, and More.
- Save unlimited Offline Maps for seamless GPS navigation coverage when you’re out of cell service.
- Build, edit, and share custom trips with Route Builder.
onX Backcountry Elite
Level up your winter adventures by adding Elite’s exclusive map tools and data that let you evaluate private land, see recent imagery, and unlock exclusive discounts to our partner brands.
- See private land boundaries and landowner names across the entire country, and tap any parcel for ownership data and acreage.
- Access our Recent Imagery feature, which lets you scout trail and terrain conditions with regularly updated satellite imagery.
- Unlock exclusive discounts on gear and parts from top brands so you can save big when you gear up for your next adventure.
We Have A Mode For That
The onX Backcountry App is the ultimate tool for your next adventure. No matter how you’re exploring the outdoors — whether it’s skiing down a snowy mountain this spring, escaping to the desert for some early season mountain biking, itching for the rock to dry out and go climbing, or planning a summer backpacking trip — use onX Backcountry to find routes, navigate terrain, save maps, find public land, and access thousands of recreation points all year long.
Hiking
onX Backcountry features an extensive database of hiking trails, offering users access to detailed information on trail lengths, difficulty levels, and elevation profiles. The app provides real-time GPS tracking and offline maps, ensuring hikers can navigate with confidence and always know exactly where they are on the map, even in areas without cell service. onX Backcountry helps adventurers discover new trails and plan their hiking adventures with a comprehensive understanding of what to expect on their journey.
Backcountry Skiing
The Snow Mode feature in onX Backcountry is specifically designed for backcountry skiing enthusiasts, providing critical information such as slope angles, avalanche forecasts, and guidebook quality backcountry routes. It enables skiers to assess the safety and suitability of ski routes with precision, thanks to real-time GPS tracking and offline map access for navigation in remote areas. This mode enhances the skiing experience by offering insights into terrain features, helping skiers make informed decisions for a safe and enjoyable adventure in the snow.
Mountain Biking
onX Backcountry’s dedicated section for mountain bike trails delivers a comprehensive guide to biking paths, featuring detailed descriptions of trail lengths, difficulty ratings, and elevation changes. It equips riders with GPS tracking capabilities and offline maps, ensuring seamless navigation through diverse terrains, from serene forest paths to challenging mountain trails. The app also incorporates MTB Project data, including reviews and photos, allowing bikers to explore and select trails that best match their skill level and adventure spirit, making it an essential tool for planning exhilarating mountain biking experiences.
Rock Climbing
onX Backcountry integrates Mountain Project data and offers an in-depth look at climbing routes with detailed information on location, difficulty, and type of climb (e.g., bouldering, sport, or traditional). The app provides climbers with offline access to maps and GPS tracking, ensuring they can find their way to the crag or boulder, even in remote areas without cell reception. Additionally, it integrates user reviews and photos, allowing climbers to gauge the quality and current conditions of routes, making onX Backcountry an invaluable tool for planning and executing climbing adventures safely and efficiently.
How to Use onX Backcountry
We’re your one-stop-shop for discovering, planning, navigating, and documenting your next human-powered adventure. With all that power, comes great responsibility. Learn how to use it wisely by watching the video below.
About onX Backcountry
With onX Backcountry, you have a suite of tools at your fingertips to make better decisions in the backcountry. With guidebook quality route descriptions, detailed topo & 3D maps, slope angle & aspect maps, and avalanche observations and fatalities you will have all of the tools you’ll need in one app.
App Reviews
Best Navigation App
I switched to Onx after using a couple different navigation apps and this is my favorite. It’s reliable, accurate, and the one time that I actually had an issue, their support helped me almost immediately. They also have…
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I switched to Onx after using a couple different navigation apps and this is my favorite. It’s reliable, accurate, and the one time that I actually had an issue, their support helped me almost immediately. They also have a series of YouTube videos with master classes to help you learn how to get the most out of the app. They’re extremely helpful. Definitely recommend!
This app saved my toes!
Tried this out when backpacking Big Bend for the first time. Ended up getting snowed into a mountaintop campsite with a historic amount of snow. This app gave us the confidence we were going the right way to return to th…
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Tried this out when backpacking Big Bend for the first time. Ended up getting snowed into a mountaintop campsite with a historic amount of snow. This app gave us the confidence we were going the right way to return to the base when we couldn’t see any trail or tracks at all and needed to get down in time to prevent frostbite.
The tracking works remarkably well and the UI is fairly intuitive. Also seeing the difficulty gradient along the trails is very useful for planning and decision making. My only suggestion would be to make it easier to access and view stats on previously tracked hikes. The only way I could find to access them was by tapping on the path on the map, but sometimes I had hiked the same segment many times making this an imprecise way to find precious data.
Never Get Lost Again
I don’t need to go into all of the details of this app. There is a slight but easy learning curve to get to know it thoroughly. Never get lost, always know where you are, peace of mind.
This is excellent app for on …
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I don’t need to go into all of the details of this app. There is a slight but easy learning curve to get to know it thoroughly. Never get lost, always know where you are, peace of mind.
This is excellent app for on your feet trekking, on and off trail especially in remote places. It’s not just great for backcountry, it’s also excellent for urban and rural areas as well. Basically anywhere in the Continental United States. As long as you have battery power, you you have a pretty darn good idea where you are with this and what’s near you. Park in a big parking lot at some huge concert? Mark your location and go right back to your car. I love its use for everything.
