Cairn: Hiking & Outdoor Trails
Recently named one of the three best map apps for navigating the wilderness by Outside Magazine.
GET FOUND IF YOU’RE OVERDUE
• Notifications: Safety contacts are notified when you’re past due
• Live tracking: Contacts can see your GPS location during your trip or hike
• Rescue advice: Contacts get important info needed to make intelligent rescue initiation decisions
STAY CONNECTED IN THE OUTDOORS
• Know where others have found cell coverage
• Download topo maps that are designed specifically for outdoor pursuits
SEE TRAIL STATS
• Get live distance, elevation gain and ETA stats for 4000+ hiking routes, summits, and trails worldwide
CAIRN IS
+ Easy: It only takes a minute to set up a Cairn
+ Open: Share plans with anyone – no app required to view
+ Flexible: Great for hiking, backpacking, trail running, horseback riding, skiing, cycling, rock climbing, camping, hunting, fishing, boating and more
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Category : Maps & Navigation
Reviews (14)
Easy to use. Most other hiking apps have too much going on. If you need that kind of in depth then buy a hiking gps. This app is user friendly and works great. Love the satellite maps and the ability to download for offline. Absolutely love this app.
It says 30 day free trail. I had the free trail for 3 days and it automatically canceled it for some reason.--correction. I previously gave it a 1 star due to my subscription being automatically canceled but Cairn reached out right away and fixed the problem without hesitation.
I was hopeful that the app would allow me to plan a trails trip. I can't seem to add more than 1 point to point trail. I want to be able to customize it to make multiple stops and then download the map.
As a solo female traveler overseas, I am so grateful that I can notify my safety circle when I'm going on trails alone and they can know to send help if I haven't checked back from my destination. It even sends them an alert so they can enable services, should I need them. With the maps I can be confident with where I'm going and plan my route!
SMS notifications don't work of you have more than one safety contact. Update: increased to three stars as I found it works with some default SMS apps and not others. Still not good.
App was hard to load, 4 tries. Now app won't open. Issue with my phone,, latest update cleared all issues.
Not working for me. Having problems figuring out how to use it. Not finding it intuitive.
Doesn't seem useful unless I'm on an established trail where I wouldnt really need it to begin with.
It's really nice for me because I'm so independent and go up to my cabin a lot. Thanks!
AARP said this was a free app. Not so! There are many other apps that are free that are just as good.
Only one trail in my area. (VT) overall impression: meh
Doesn't have any of the trails near me
Saved me from being lost out in the Deep Woods
From other hiking maps I am used to get a list of trails with rating of difficulty when searching an area for some hikes. With this app there is no such feature available, at least I couldn't find it. I think this app could be useful and great if you already know the trails and name if the trails you want to hike. Other than that useless app.