Apple Adds Trail Networks to Maps App in iOS 18

Announced today during their WWDC developer conference Apple just announced the addition of trail routes to their mapping app for many of the popular hiking locations – think National Parks.

Maps now features topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hikes, including all 63 U.S. national parks. Save maps to your device to access offline with turn-by-turn voice guidance, or create your own hikes.

This is a big ‘finally’ for the app and will be a great addition to the Maps app for most users – and the maps will be available offline, which is super important when hiking in the backcountry. I do hope that this will include better mapping to the trail head as well. These final miles from the main roads to the trailheads have often been subpar, to say the least, or completely wrong or missing.

AllTrails be like: “shit…!” But it still waits to be seen if this is actually is useful for power users or will really just be an entry level addition. Strava I bet is not worried about this… yet.