Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps for PC - Free Download: Windows 10/11 Edition

★ ★ ★ Gaia GPS Overview

What is Gaia GPS?

Gaia GPS is a navigation app that provides offline maps and navigation tools for outdoor adventures. It offers a wide range of features for hiking, backpacking, trail running, camping, overlanding, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, and professional use. The app is available in both free and premium versions.

Software Features and Description

1. • Take topo maps, USGS, USFS, MVUM, public and private land maps offline so you can always find your way, even without cell service.

2. Beloved by millions worldwide and featured in countless publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and GearJunkie, Gaia GPS provides the best offline maps and navigation tools for your adventures.

3. • Discover hiking trails and plan your own routes with Gaia Topo, the world’s most powerful backcountry map.

4. • Explore hundreds of professional maps, including Nat Geo Trails Illustrated, USFS, and hi-res satellite imagery.

5. • Find dispersed camping far from the crowds with public and private land boundaries and USFS maps.

6. • Quickly route to GPS coordinates, view recent wildfires, and share maps, tracks, & waypoints with your team.

7. • Mark hiking trails, routes, campsites, & water sources.

8. • Travel with confidence – Take your maps offline so you always know where you are, even far from cell service.

9. • Display your maps, routes, and waypoints on your dashboard with Apple CarPlay.

10. Explore the world with Gaia GPS, your premier guide for finding trails around the world.

11. • Find new trails from local bikers to explore the wilderness around you.

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Download and install Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Gaia GPS	Get App ↲	30,444 4.79	TrailBehind

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Gaia GPS on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Gaia GPS"
The search will reveal the Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Gaia GPS is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Gaia GPS.
Now enjoy Gaia GPS on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	TrailBehind	4.79	2024.8

Get Gaia GPS on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	TrailBehind	30444	4.79

Download on Android: Download Android

Gaia GPS: Mobile Trail Maps functions

- Discover hiking trails and plan your own routes with Gaia Topo, the world’s most powerful backcountry map.

- Explore hundreds of professional maps, including Nat Geo Trails Illustrated, USFS, and hi-res satellite imagery.

- Take your maps offline so you always know where you are, even far from cell service.

- Use our intelligent route planner to create routes on the fly.

- Use our app as an altitude, elevation and distance tracker for each hike.

- Mark campsites and points of interest, drop photo waypoints.

- Get weather forecasts to stay on top of changing conditions.

- Discover camping and reserve sites right from the map.

- Find dispersed camping far from the crowds with public and private land boundaries and USFS maps.

- The premier offroad app for planning, navigating, and recording 4x4 and overlanding adventures.

- Identify avalanche terrain with slope angle shading and topographic information.

- Find the best trails curated by the team over at Trailforks.

- Gaia GPS is the preferred nav app for outdoor professionals.

- Free – limited maps, for online use only.

- Premium – full online and offline access to the map catalog; print custom maps.

✔ Pros:

- Offers a wide range of maps and layers, including Canada backroads layer

- Can be used offline, even in airplane mode

- Low power usage in airplane mode

- Automatic tracing of routes over existing marked trails for off-road motorcycle planning

- Reasonable battery usage, lasting for 12 hours or more with every app turned off and airplane mode

- Has a website that is fairly good

- Has saved the user from getting lost several times, and may have even saved their life

- Works without cellular service, even in other countries

☹ Cons:

- Randomized coloring when importing tracks can be frustrating for professional use

- Area shapes are created in a way that makes it difficult to bulk adjust colors

- Web app folder system is a little convoluted and not immediately obvious

Top Pcmac Reviews

Great App with a couple minor issues

By The Strawman (Pcmac user)

Let me start by saying I use a Premium Subscription and absolutely love this app and use it nearly daily for both work and recreation. I does so much that it has become a must for use with my fieldwork. My only complaints are the randomized coloring when importing tracks and the was area shapes are created. Using this app professionally, I often need all of my shapes to be specific colors or all one color. Often I can just quickly adjust them in the app, but when I have projects with hundreds of shapes this is no longer a viable option and is very frustrating. Simply allowing bulk adjustment would solve this problem for me. The second issue regarding creating areas is that often when I try to move the dots that adjust the area, it grabs the screen and tries to move it instead... sensitivity issue maybe? In any case, these issues are not deal breakers... I love this app and will continue to use it, but hope that these two simple things will be addressed in the future. I know I’m not the only one that would like to see this! Thanks for a great app!!!
Great tool for mapping motorcycle trips that use lots of off-road.

By eritchie007 (Pcmac user)

I’ve been using the app to map my rides for a couple of years now. I use it to note where I’ve been, and to mark places I’d like to go, rather than mapping out routes beforehand. I like the detail available in the layers of maps available, (just purchased membership so as to be able to download and utilize Canada backroads layer) the ability to run the app while phone is in airplane mode, and the relatively low power use in that mode. I’ve ridden across the country west to east and back again, and from south to north, and largely off-road. And have records of each day’s ride. I use it to map mountain bike rides and bicycle commutes, and keep multiple parent-folders current with each ride. I also like being able to share a link to my rides with family and friends. I know there are features I don’t use, but feel confident that their use would be pretty intuitive given the ease of use I experience with the features I do use.
Great to plan routes for off-road riding

By Julien velo (Pcmac user)

Downloaded the app and tested it for off-road motorcycle. The automatic tracing of a route over existing marked trails is an awesome feature that makes planning the route considerably easier than with Google Earth or Garmin Basecamp. I downloaded satellite image and usgs topo maps of the area I was riding in so I didn't need to rely on having network or not during the ride. Battery usage was reasonable and it can certainly last for 12 hours or more with every app turned off and airplane mode. The website is fairly good too. Only small complain is that the web app folder system is a little convoluted - it's not obvious at first where things go at first. The mobile app occasionally crashes while managing files, yet nothing was lost. Compare to a Garmin gps unit the only limitation is the device's gps accuracy and recording rate but it's no issue for off-road riding/driving, likely not an issue for hiking neither.
The best

By machachochamocolatta (Pcmac user)

One of the best mobile apps hands down. The app has easily saved me from getting lost several times. It might have even saved my life. The interface may not be the most intuitive but once I got used to it, I was fine. The app has ALWAYS worked without cellular service. I’ve used it in this manner over a dozen times for a total of about 30 days in two countries. The key is to download an area map to your device before you leave cellular coverage and load it when you are ready. It’s also helpful to establish known waypoints before but no biggie if you don’t. Two negative observations some of Colorado’s 14ers are listed at the wrong altitude and if you cache equipment and use this app to waypoint the arrow that shows your location to the waypoint will continuously move location even though you are standing still. It still, in my opinion, a 5 star app!