Plan your custom trail from the app

Create your adventures instantly with Wikiloc's app route planner

Want to design your custom trail? In addition to all the trails shared by community members, you can now create your ideal journey from scratch from your mobile phone, even if you're already at the starting point.

For a better experience, the route planner prioritizes the most popular and highly rated trails by the community. You can also find points of interest recommended by other users and include them in your trail. 

It's very easy to use: select your starting point, choose the activity, and begin tracing your route by tapping on the map or searching for the starting place in the search bar. You can customize your itinerary, choose the waypoints you want to pass through, and adjust the route to your liking.

Save and manage your customized trails on Wikiloc, where you can share them publicly or keep them for personal use.

Step-by-step Wikiloc app route planner

1. Access the Route Planner

• From Explore: Access the route planner from Explore > View Map > Plan Trail.
• From your profile: Go to the Planned trails tab and press the Plan Trail button.

2. Start planning your trail

• To start, tap on the map or use the Search button to select a starting point.

• If you use the Search button, the search bar will open, suggesting nearby points of interest.
• To search, tap on the field Search for a place.

• Select the activity. You can choose between Road Bike, Mountain Bike, or Hiking.

3. Add points

• Add subsequent points by tapping the map or searching for a specific location from the search bar.

• You can also select a popular waypoint and add it to your route.

4. Check your route information

• Once you add the second point, a dropdown window will appear with details such as Distance, Elevation Gain, and Activity.

• Slide up this window to view the route profile and the list of users who contributed to different segments of your route.

5. Interact with the route

• Swipe over the elevation profile to follow the route on the map.

• Use the Undo button to remove the last action taken (you can undo multiple actions).
• Close the planner without saving with the X in the top left corner.

6. Display settings

• If you scroll through the map and lose sight of your location, the Locate Me button will appear.
• If you lose complete visibility of your route, the Center Route button will appear so you can center it on the map.

7. Modify route points

• To remove a point, tap on it and select Remove Point.
• To connect the first point with the last and close the route, tap on the first or last point and select Connect to Start/End Point.

8. Change of activity

• You can change the activity at any time. If you do, the route will automatically recalculate to adapt to the new activity.

9. Save your trail

• When you finish planning your route, press the Save button. The system will suggest a name based on the route points.

• Your saved trail will appear as a public trail in the Planned trails tab of your profile.

10. Privacy and editing

• Change the privacy of the trail in Edit Trail > Privacy.
• To edit the trail, enter the saved trail and select Edit Trail to modify the name, description, activity, difficulty, and privacy. You can also add photos.