Read on for a deeper dive into all the new updates coming to AllTrails.
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New AllTrails App Features: Available June 2025
AllTrails Points of Interest
Points of Interest
Ever come home from a weekend away, only to realize you missed one more vista around the bend or an Instagrammable balanced rock? AllTrails has noted some 500,000 mapped view points, geological features, and trail amenities across its maps, which are viewable to all members. (Yes, including people who don't pay for Plus or Peak subscriptions.)
AllTrails Offline Areas
Offline Areas
Before this season’s update, the ability to save individual hikes for offline navigation was the key feature that pulled me over to a Plus-level membership. It's great to not have to rely on cell data (or a prayer) to know which turn to take at a fork in the trail. But the fact the app only allowed specific routes to be saved was a bit limiting (I am always so curious about what's down the paths I don't take).
Thankfully, the new update promises to allow Peak and Plus subscribers to download the maps for entire areas and all the routes inside them. This will allow users to be a lot more flexible in my trip planning. I especially like this feature as I can now just download the map for the area I'm visiting, rather than having to do a lot of research in advance of my trip to pick a specific route, only to be thwarted by an unexpected issue at the trailhead.
AllTrails Community Heatmap
Community Heatmap
Leveraging millions of users' data shared with AllTrails through publicly recorded hikes (completely optional by each user), Peak members can now toggle on a heatmap view of the trails on the app's map. Whether you decide to apply the knowledge from the heatmap to find the most popular summit approach or identify the path where you're least likely to run into anyone else is entirely up to you.
AllTrails Custom Routes
Custom Routes
On several occasions, I’ve lacked the time or desire to complete the hiking routes as listed on AllTrails, opting to string legs of neighboring trails together on my own. With the new custom route feature, Peak subscribers can more easily choose their own adventure. Users can create a new route from scratch, or modify one that someone has already done. Using AI, AllTrails can also suggest ways to make your route shorter, less steep, or even more scenic with a simple finger tap.
AllTrails Trail Conditions
Trail Conditions
To me, one of the most valuable features of AllTrails has always been the community insight into recent trail conditions sourced through trail reviews–think collapsed walkways, tricky post-storm creek crossings, or new bug blooms. Using a more scientific approach, a new trail conditions screen lets Peak members plan with environmental conditions they should expect at a time and date of their choosing–temperature, precipitation, and snow depth during early-season alpine hikes. More than 15 factors power the trail conditions view, with a future update providing even more details on surface terrain qualities.
AllTrails Outdoor Lens
Outdoor Lens
Outdoor Lens allows Peak subscribers to capture or load photos from their hike to save various plants, insects, and animals to a shareable logbook. Over time, AllTrails will expand its identification capabilities to grow to include a wider variety of natural wonders. (The company has confirmed this feature will not arrive until later this Summer.)
