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CNET
27-06-2025
- CNET
AllTrails' New Peak Tier Makes It Your Personalized Outdoor Planner
Whether you're heading out for a quick afternoon loop, training for a summit push, or just trying to find a family-friendly trail that won't leave anyone in tears, AllTrailsis likely already on your radar. It's the world's most widely used trail app, connecting more than 80 million outdoor lovers to a massive library of over 450,000 curated trails across the globe. Features like GPS navigation, user-generated reviews, and the ability to filter trails by length, difficulty, activity type, or even dog-friendliness, have made it a go-to resource for planning and tracking outdoor adventures. The free version of AllTrails offers solid tools for trail discovery and navigation, while AllTrails Plus adds advanced navigation tools that work even when you're far away from a cell tower. And with a sweeping redesign that launched in Summer 2025, AllTrails is introducing a new Peak tier that will be essential for outdoor lovers looking for more personalized and up-to-date trail data. Right now, when you sign up for AllTrails Plus or Peak, you'll get a week-long free trial to take AllTrails along on your next hike and decide for yourself. From free tools to all-out trail companion AllTrails has long been a favorite tool for anyone who wants to get outside with more confidence and less guesswork. At its core the app is simple: you can search for trails, read user reviews and navigate routes with GPS. It's personalized and packed with details you didn't know you needed, from trail length and elevation to dog-friendliness and scenic highlights. AllTrails The free AllTrails Base membership grants users access to trail discovery, navigation, and activity sharing, which is great for anyone dipping their toes into hiking, running, or biking. If you regularly head into areas with poor cell service or want an added layer of safety, AllTrails Plus is well worth the upgrade. For $35.99 per year (about $3 a month) AllTrails Plus unlocks helpful tools like offline maps, 3D trail previews, real-time navigation with turn alerts and the ability to share your live location with friends or family. There are also curated collections for inspiration, park-specific pages with important info like hours and entry fees, and fun social features like Trail Recap for sharing your completed treks. Whether you're planning a national park trip or just looking for nearby nature escapes, Plus is an affordable way to make your time outdoors safer, smoother, and more enjoyable. AllTrails For those who want an even more personalized and powerful planning experience, the new AllTrails Peak membership is the real game-changer. Launched as part of the app's summer 2025 update, Peak includes everything in the Plus tier and adds four premium features designed to give users greater control and insight before and during a trip. For $79.99 per year (about $7 a month), members can now get access to Custom Routes, a Community Heatmap, Trail Conditions, and the upcoming Outdoor Lens. Whether you're a weekend wanderer, an all-season trail runner, or a global summit chaser, Peak is packed with features that add serious value for outdoor enthusiasts of all levels. AllTrails Peak is your comprehensive outdoor companion AllTrails Peak's new tools aim to solve real-world problems that trailgoers often face. The Custom Routes feature is especially useful for those who want to make an outing their own—whether that's extending a hike to hit a scenic overlook or shortening it a touch to suit your crew. You can start from scratch or modify any of AllTrails' existing routes, then save and share your customized version with friends. It's ideal for group hikes, training plans, or building your ultimate bucket-list adventure. AllTrails Trail Conditions gives you a heads-up on everything from weather and terrain to air quality and even mosquito activity. Planning a weekend hike during wildfire season or allergy-prone spring days? Hiking somewhere you might experience drastic changes in temperature as you climb or descend? This kind of info helps you prepare better, dress smarter, and avoid disappointing last-minute changes. Likewise, the Community Heatmap shows the most popular trails in any area, letting you choose between a more social experience or a quieter, less-traveled route—especially handy if you're hiking solo or visiting somewhere new. And while Outdoor Lens is still coming soon, it promises to turn your smartphone into a nature guide, helping you safely identify plants, trees, and more along the way. AllTrails Peak transforms AllTrails into much more than a trail-finding app: it's now a smarter, more personalized outdoor planning tool. Even casual hikers will appreciate the convenience and confidence it brings, while more frequent explorers will likely find it pays for itself in just a few weekends. Start your free trial of AllTrails and get started — or go further — today Whether you're new to hiking or a seasoned trail veteran, AllTrails continues to be one of the most reliable and feature-rich trail apps available. With the addition of the Peak membership, users now have access to even more detailed planning tools and real-time insights that can enhance both safety and enjoyment on the trail. You can try it now with a 7-day free trial of either Plus or Peak, or gift an AllTrails Plus membership to a loved one who loves the great outdoors.
Tom's Guide
12-05-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
I tried AllTrails' new Custom Routes tool — and it's a game-changer for hikers, bikers and runners
My favorite hiking app, AllTrails, is releasing a massive summer update to celebrate 15 years of literal and digital trailblazing. I had the chance to check out all of the forthcoming features during a press preview last week in New York's Catskill Mountains. Most notably, this included a hands-on demo with the app's powerful new custom route-building tool, which is something I suspect will appeal not only to hikers, but backpackers, trail runners, mountain bikers and more. Combined, the AllTrails Summer 2025 update includes six new features to help you better plan and prepare for your next big outdoor adventure. Some of these improvements, like access to on-trail Points of Interest, will be available to all users, whether you pay $2.99 a month/$35.99 annually for AllTrails Plus or have the free base plan. AllTrails is debuting a new 'premium' membership level called Peak in June 2025 However, access to other feature upgrades will cost a little extra. AllTrails is debuting a new 'premium' membership level called Peak in June 2025. Priced at $79.99 a year, it includes everything you get with the Plus plan, along with exclusive access to arguably the three most powerful new tools: Custom Routes, advanced Trail Condition reports and Community Heatmaps. Read on for details on all six new AllTrails features, including which membership levels can access which, when they'll be available and how they work. As noted above, the coolest feature I tested out, Custom Routes, is exclusive to Peak members. Straightforward to use, it lets you build and edit a custom hiking route in just a couple of taps. Users simply select a starting point anywhere on the map, followed by an end point. You can also begin your route creation journey by using an existing trail and expanding it. Want to shorten your route, reduce elevation or add a point of interest? Go right ahead. AI-backed 'smart routing' has you covered. There's even an option to make the route 'more scenic.' Who wouldn't want that? Once you've edited your Custom Route to a point of satisfaction and saved it, you can take a little tour of your creation. Just like you can with a standard AllTrails trail map, users can view recent photos from their Custom Route and even preview it in 3D. Better yet, Peak members can share their newly minted route with friends and family, no paid AllTrails plan required for the recipient. In use, it took me less than a minute to create an epic 11-mile day-hike near Hunter Mountain, New York, complete with picturesque stops and manageable elevation gain. Though this was just a short demo on an AllTrails loaner phone, I'm stoked to put Custom Routes to better use once it fully launches. I think it will be particularly useful for when I have friends and family come visit me in Seattle, Washington, where the mountain hiking is primo but can also be challenging/intimidating. Beyond hiking, I could see this tool being attractive to a wide range of outdoor enthusiasts, too. After all, AllTrails supports a surprisingly large number of activity types, from snowshoeing and cross-country skiing to climbing and even pushing a stroller. Later this year, expect additional support within Custom Routes for multi-day hikes, including the ability to create segments and waypoints. AllTrails already offers users some basic info on trail weather conditions, but that data only gets updated once a day. Meanwhile, dynamic seasonal photo galleries offer hints at what to expect on the ground. Now, AllTrails is taking weather predictions a step further with advanced Trail Conditions. Think of it like a weather app within the AllTrails app with details on temperature, precipitation, snow depth, mosquito activity and air quality. (Those dynamic snow depth insights will be especially useful for folks like me who enjoy springtime mountain hikes.) Later this year, Trail Conditions will additionally show terrain charts that break down a trail based on which portions are, for example, gravel versus dirt. Also in the works, mud condition reports. Weather data is updated hourly, and users can check out condition predictions up to a week in advance. 15 different weather factors pulled from over 10 million datapoints power Trail Conditions. More importantly, you'll never have an excuse for leaving your best hiking boots or that much-needed pair of crampons at home again. Wouldn't it be nice to have insights into which trails see the most foot traffic when planning a hike? With the new Community Heatmaps tool, AllTrails is delivering just that. This visual representation of trail usage was originally developed for AllTrails' seriously awesome (and free) Public Lands Program, which is built around providing AllTrails' data to community land managers to help improve access and better allocate resources. Pulling from a year of visitor trail data, darker lines within the feature reflect a path more traveled, while lighter lines reflect the opposite. This makes Community Heatmaps not just useful for avoiding crowded trails and seeking out hidden gems, but also for pinpointing potential obstacles or challenging portions of a trail where the shade abruptly switches from dark to light. A few months after last summer's big AllTrails update, Plus members gained the ability to download and save maps of national and local parks worldwide for offline use. Now, Peak and Plus members will be able to download and save trail info for any area of their choice. How big a region can you download? That depends on how many trails are in your selected area, but Alltrails reps tell me to expect a cap of roughly 500 trails per download. When you consider that these downloads not only give you turn-by-turn navigation for all of the hikes in the selected region but also details on elevation, photo tours, 3D tours and more, this new functionality is all the more impressive. This was one AllTrails app update I did not see coming, which is ironic, given its name. The new Outdoor Lens feature, available for Peak and Plus users, was described to me by AllTrails as a 'visual search tool to explore the natural world.' Users can either snap photos from within the AllTrails app or submit them from their camera roll for identification and info. When it initially launches this summer, the Outdoor Lens will provide details on everything from trees and mushrooms to flowers and insects. No cell service? No problem. The feature stores your log of shots and processes them as soon as you come back online. Everything you've photographed for identification gets saved into a virtual logbook, which you can reference at any time from within the app, like the outdoorsy nerd you are. Plus, it sounds like Future iterations of the Outdoor Lens feature may add visual identification for mountain peaks and other scenic points of interest. Last but not least, with the 2025 summer update, all AllTrails users will gain access to Points of Interest, which includes not only scenic photo spots but also places like picnic areas, public bathrooms, campsites and even caves. Each point of Interest has instructions on how to navigate to it, along with a description, recent photos and even reviews. With 500,000 POIs and counting, including 200,000 spots for scenic photos, this is a welcome free addition to the app (and I can't wait to read all the stinky pit toilet reviews). The latest AllTrails features will begin rolling out to users this week. If you want to learn more about Peak, consider signing up for early access on the AllTrails site. At $80 annually, the membership is a little more than double that of Plus. Will the exclusive Peak features prove worth it? My initial impressions of Costum Routes and Heatmaps suggest the answer is yes, but I look forward to testing the entire Plus experience further. Users who want to try out the new Peak features before committing will be able to sign up for a one-week trial once the new membership tier fully launches in June 2025.
