Whether you already know the trail you want to hike or you're figuring it out at the trailhead, here's how Campound's features fit together — from finding a trail on Wi-Fi at home, to following it without cell service, to logging the whole thing to Apple Fitness.
Get it on the App StoreTap Find a trail in the toolbar and Campound scans every trail and route in the current viewport — USFS trails, National Scenic and Historic Trails, state trails, BLM non-motorized trails, forest roads, and everything in between. Each row shows length, elevation gain and the maintaining agency (USFS, BLM, NPS, State) inline so you can scan without opening every entry.
If you already know the name, the search box searches your whole state — "engineer pass," "saxon mountain," "continental divide" — and finds matches in sub-10ms even in California (53,000 unique routes). Works offline against the per-state index that downloads alongside your tiles.
Filter chips narrow the list without leaving the dialog: pick USFS if you're focused on National Forest trails, Under 5 mi for a shorter day, 15+ mi when you're chasing a big one.
Read the Find a trail guide →Tap any trail and Campound assembles its full geometry across tile boundaries and ranger districts — so a trail encoded in the source data as 14 fragmented pieces displays as one continuous line with one elevation profile. You get the total distance, gain, loss, and altitude range at the top; the profile chart underneath is scrubbable, and the amber dot on the map follows your finger along it.
Trail-specific attributes surface as a compact header — Trail #, Trail class, Surface, National designation, and the per-mode open dates ("Hike: Jun 1 – Sep 30") so you know before you drive whether the trail's in season for hikers.
Tap Directions and Campound hands you turn-by-turn nav with voice, ETA and drift-recalc. The router is hybrid: Mapbox handles the paved leg out of town, then Campound's own off-road router takes over across the Forest Service, BLM or OHV roads that lead to the trailhead. The off-road portion runs entirely on the bundled tiles, so it keeps going when cell service drops in the canyon on the way in.
Prefer to leave your phone in the pocket? Nav mirrors to your Apple Watch — next maneuver, distance, and ETA on the wrist. Turn-warn haptics land the same instant the voice cue plays.
Read the Navigation guide →Once you're at the trailhead, Campound's navigation shifts into trail mode. The Mapbox driving polyline steps aside and the trail's own amber highlight becomes the visual guide — a clean, high-contrast line traced along the actual trail geometry, not a synthesized routing suggestion.
Turn on Locate me and a small "On Continental Divide Trail" badge appears at the top of the map — the current-trail detector confirms you're on the trail you meant to hike. The badge mirrors to your watch too, so a glance at your wrist tells you which trail you're on without pulling out the phone. Ask Siri "what trail am I on?" and the same detector answers hands-free.
When you drift far enough from the trail — a switchback you missed, a spur that looked promising — Campound recalculates against the trail network, not a driving graph. The amber highlight re-routes you back on, the voice cue gives you a heads-up, and your watch buzzes at the moment you cross the threshold.
The off-route recalc is a hiker-shaped one: it respects use-mode permissions (won't route you onto a motorized-only path) and prefers trails to roads even when a road would be shorter.
Long-press the map to drop a waypoint or tap the camera to save a geotagged photo. The dictionary — your customizable pin types — lets you pick what kind of thing you're saving: a Peak, a Water source, an Overlook, a Backcountry campsite, whatever you actually care about. Each type carries its own icon, color, and optional structured form so a Peak asks for elevation and class, a Water source asks for flow rate and turbidity.
The Apple Watch does the same. Tap the crown, pick the type from your wrist, dictate a note ("brown trout on a chubby chernobyl, water low") and it lands as a proper GeoJSON point on the phone next to your other captures. A disk-backed outbox guarantees every capture makes it back even if the phone was out of range at the moment.
Photos cluster on the map so a beloved viewpoint with 20 shots reads as one thumbnail until you tap in. A carousel opens; swipe through, delete duds, keep the keepers.
Read the Dictionary guide →Every dictionary line type declares what kind of workout it is — Hiking, Trail running, Backpacking, XC skiing, Paddle sports — and each type has a Save to Apple Fitness toggle. Flip it on and when you stop the recording, the completed session lands in HealthKit as a proper Workout: Move-ring credit, a workout list entry with pace and distance, and a Show Route polyline drawn from your actual GPS trace.
The Move-ring credit uses Apple's official heart-rate and pace-based calorie model, not a made-up "steps × factor" number. And because the session type is declared upfront, the workout shows in the Fitness app with the right icon and metadata — a hike shows as a hike, not "Other."
Tap the star and the trail lands in your Favorites list with a 1-to-5 star rating. The rating is more than aesthetic — the Favorites panel sorts by rating so your 5-star hikes bubble to the top when you're picking next weekend's trip. Favorites sync across your devices via your Campound account, so a trail you starred on your iPad shows up on your phone before you leave home.
Custom features and photos flow through the same sync. Sign in once, and every waypoint you drop on a hike, every photo you take, every trail you favorite is available wherever you are next.
Every captured line — a GPS-recorded hike, a favorited trail, a route from directions — plays back as a cinematic flyover. The camera pitches and swings with the trail's turns; a HUD in the corner shows current elevation, grade, distance covered, and pace. Reverse direction mid-flight if you want to see it from the other end.
When the camera passes a geotagged photo you took on the hike, a polaroid card pops in over the map — the flyover pauses so you can look at the shot in the context of where you were. Tap to dismiss and the fly continues.
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