2024 Impact Report
A Look in the Rearview
Creating lasting change takes time. Here’s a quick look at how we’re doing it.
A Year in Impact—A Few Highlights
There are countless ways to enjoy our shared lands and each pursuit has different landscape, access, and recreational infrastructure needs. That’s why we support and measure a variety of cumulative impact metrics from our grantees’ projects. From newly opened public acres to improved trails and trailheads, you can find our full recap of metrics in our Impact Report.
Locations of Adventure Forever Grant Projects
From coast to coast, we work across habitats, cultures, and time zones to support projects in areas that need it most. We team up with organizations and activate individuals to create opportunity and impact in their communities. As the years go on, we’ll continue to fill in the map, from our backyard to the farthest nooks of our American lands.
Leveraging Proven Solutions
Awarded grants meet one or more of our six project goals, ensuring that we’re working toward solutions that matter most to us and our community. Together, these goals help us protect and preserve our landscapes and maintain access for the long term.
DISPATCHES FROM THE FIELD
Featured Stories
Learn more about the people and places that make our access and stewardship work so important. From getting our boots dirty in the Boundary Waters to polishing our dress shoes for a trip to Capitol Hill, these stories celebrate community and conservation.
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SPORTSMEN FOR THE BOUNDARY WATERS
Boat-In Habitat and Access Restoration
Located less than one mile from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Pine Island Wildlife Management Area is a 40-acre parcel that’s heavily used by deer, grouse, bear, and other species of Northern Minnesota. Alongside Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters and Meateater’s Working for Wildlife tour, we daylighted the forest canopy by thinning undergrowth, planted 1,000 native trees, and cleared trails across the island. These efforts support wildlife habitat, aid in climate resiliency, and open access points for hunters.
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Active Wildfire Product Feature
Conditions change in an instant. We built Active Wildfire Conditions in the App to keep you in the know about hot spots, smoke conditions, and active wildfire boundaries.
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Treadlightly!
Motivation in Michigan—Stewardship in Action
We partnered with TreadLightly! in Michigan to co-host five trail stewardship projects. With the help of dozens of volunteers, we installed 1,120 feet of new fence, improved 76 miles of trails, and removed 8,402 pounds of trash. All in one day.
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ADVOCACY AND ACTION
Supporting Legislation That Matters
It’s true, change can happen in small town halls, in local land trust meetings, and at the community level. Yet, sometimes you have the expertise to be influential at the top. Last year, we went to Washington D.C. to lobby for public hunting access programs and digitization of access and regulations data.
Today We Celebrate, Tomorrow We Keep Going
This work is a collaboration. A compilation of strengths. An always-on effort of coming together and giving back.
To our partners, it’s your expertise and dedication that leads these projects from dream to ribbon cutting. Your hard work is critical for protecting what we love.
To our customers, your onX memberships power our Access and Stewardship program. You scale and accelerate our mission.
Thank you for being a part of the onX community.
We can’t imagine a world without hunting, skiing, dirt biking, climbing, overlanding, or sharing stories around a campfire. We’ll keep standing up for the health of our ecosystems by working for access and inspiring an ethos of stewardship that’s built on gratitude.
The work is never done. It’s not a competition, it’s rarely easy, and sometimes it’s Type 2 fun. Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we keep going.
The Pillars of Our Program
We support enhancing and preserving sustainable land and water access for outdoor recreation.
We support projects and community engagement that remediate human-caused degradation to restore ecological health.
Catalyzed from a desire to give back to the land, the onX Access and Stewardship program is our way of showing appreciation to our shared landscapes. We do this through three key impact levers:
1) Philanthropy and grant giving.
2) Educate and inspire our customers to get involved.
3) Advocate for issues that matter to
us and our customers.
Milestones Through the Years
The onX journey started over a decade ago, and the impact of our work continues to accelerate. Here’s a look back from our product’s inception to the Access and Stewardship projects we’ve been able to accomplish to the present.
2009
onX is founded by hunter, software engineer, and conservationist Eric Siegfried. Maps are sold as SD chips for handheld GPS units and offer a solution to see land boundaries in the field.
2018
onX goes to Washington, D.C. for the first time to present the challenge of “landlocked” or inaccessible public lands and why it’s an access issue today.
2019
First onX grants are awarded to access and trail projects in western Montana.
2021
Goals are set to help secure 150,000 acres of access and maintain or build 150 miles of trails.
2022
onX hosts the Shared Ground Symposium to bring together outdoor experts from diverse backgrounds who all depend on sustained access to public lands.
2023
onX Hunt “40X” event with Pheasants Forever helps raise $2 million for conservation and access.
2023
Goals are exceeded! We help open or secure access to 154,688 acres of land and 255 miles of trails.
2024
Grant program brands as the onX Adventure Forever Grants.
2013 
onX Hunt App for smartphones is born.
2019 
onX Offroad App launches.
2021 
onX Backcountry App launches.
2024 
onX Fish App launches.
2018
onX and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (TRCP) publishes the Western Federal Landlocked report. In the following years, onX releases additional reports, revealing 16.2 million acres of public land are inaccessible to the public.
2022
The onX Corner-Locked Report is published, revealing 8.3 million acres of corner-locked public land in the West.
2023
The onX Breaking Trails Report: Your Outdoor Experience is Changing, and What Can be Done About It is published.
2023
The onX Private Land, Public Access report is published, revealing the importance 30 million acres of private land has on hunting opportunity.
Cover photo by Ron Messina, courtesy of Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, 2024 Adventure Forever Grantee
