This is Trails Offroadâ„¢
Our Mission
To provide the best, most accurate, relevant, and current offroad trail information fostering personal adventure for the many.
We Provide
Inspiration for those looking for new offroad adventures.
Peace of mind for those new to offroading.
We do this by making the best offroad Trail Guides known to this world.
Our Motivation
Too often, we've been on trails that have bored or scared us to death. And then, one day, we found ourselves rescuing fellow offroaders who were in trail conditions way over their heads. The concept of Trails Offroad was forged that day from our personal experience and out of necessity for excellent offroad trail intel. We are offroad nerds and employ experts in Overlanding, Rock Crawling, Backcountry Exploration, Weekend Trips, and Camping. We create highly detailed Trails Offroad Guides that inspire new adventures and help the newer offroaders find trails that meet their capabilities.
Behind the Scenes
With an unquenchable thirst for the offroad lifestyle, we left the fancy board rooms and office buildings behind. We work remotely and balance time on the trail with product development and spending time with our community. Our corporate team spends at least 3 months a year living on the trail creating new content, updating content, and dreaming up the next best way to put the best trail information into our Member's hands. We continually invest back into the Company through new and improved content and technology.
What People are Saying
A must have for the off-road junkie
Starrfish606
I have used this site for years and am so pumped there's an app!! I love the maps, detailed trail descriptions that include obstacles and other important points, ability to review the trail, and give an opinion on how it's rated.
This App is simply the best for what it does
GriimOS
Don't get me wrong, I use Gaia, OnX, and all trails, they are all good for different things. But when you just want to simply see an easy layout of trails in an area with directly and difficulty (with built in way points and pictures), this app is...
Best Company Ever
JayFromOmaha
This will be my first ever review and the only reason I'm writing this review is because this company deserves it! I've been relying on these maps and trail reviews every single year for the past few years on any and all camping trips...
Our Innovations
The first to utilize a video with each Trail Guide.
Our Innovations
The first to utilize vetted and paid contributors across North America to create offroad trail guides.
Our Innovations
The first to create the Advanced Technical Rating System that incorporates specific concerns and a multi-check system for accuracy.
Our Innovations
The first to offer an expansive national trail guide database. Not only regional or state centric.
Our Innovations
The first to present offroad trails color-coded by difficulty.
Our Innovations
The first to offer Follow Mode, a GPS driven, waypoint-by-waypoint trail guide within a mobile app.
Our Innovations
The first to specifically document dispersed camping opportunities along 4WD roads.
Our Innovations
The first to create a consistent experience with truly comprehensive Trail Guides that include: Waypoints, Highlight, Trail Description, Advanced Technical Rating, Video, Camping, Member Reviews, Member Consensus, GPX Track.
Our Innovations
Thousands of firsts at creating Trail Guides in remote areas.
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Founder Story
Todd Taylor founded Trails Offroad in the fall of 2013 to help fellow offroaders to find trails and roads that provide them with the level of adventure they want. The idea was conceived out of necessity. During the spring of 2013, Todd spent a weekend driving up and down Highway 285 in Colorado, looking for passable trails. He never found a passable trail, but he rescued three people and their vehicles over that weekend, all of which had been in situations beyond their capabilities. This trip, like many others, was a failure, and he drove home dejected. On the drive home, he thought about all the times he wasted his precious recreation time on trails that were either too boring, too scary, or not as expected. He couldn't let one thought go:
"There just has to be a better way to find accurate offroad trail information."
He pulled into his driveway and started walking into his house, and the idea came to him in those 20 footsteps. "How cool would it be if I could find 100 people across the country to create ultra-detailed guides about the trails they know by the back of their hand and keep them updated regularly." He spent the next year formulating plans of what would make the best type of trail guide format that could be replicated across the nation. What you see on Trails Offroad today still fits the edict he created of finding the perfect offroad trail, maximizing recreation time, and knowing before you go.
