Wayward GPS
Know where you stand.
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Free maps for the backcountry: ownership, terrain, water, trails, and weather in one place. Information to plan with — never a substitute for your own judgment.
Wayward GPS is a free GPS map for the backcountry — one map that shows what the land is doing, who owns it, and what the sky is doing, so you can plan your own way out there.
THE MAP
• High-resolution terrain — some of the sharpest elevation data published, rendered in 3D with peaks that look like peaks
• Private land ownership at the parcel line, with owner names where records provide them
• Corner-crossing and landlocked-public-land layers to help you see where public meets public
• GMU boundaries, wilderness areas, roadless areas, and USFS/BLM roads
• Offline maps state by state — trails, parcels, lakes, roads — downloaded to your phone before you lose signal
FISHING
• Wetfoot Stream Access — stream segments of interest to anglers, drawn as robin's-egg "trout highways" (1 CFS and up), with flow data. Coverage varies, access rules vary, and records can be wrong — confirm before you go.
• Tap any river for its story, plus flow and water temperature from USGS gauges when available
• Stocking records where the state wildlife agency reported stocking in the last two weeks, with species counts
• Whitewater and float runs with class ratings, put-ins, and take-outs
TRAILS & RIDING
• Thousands of trails with difficulty ratings and honest two-sentence writeups drawn largely from community data
• Hike/Run and Bike modes with curated bikepacking routes
• Record your tracks, then share them as clean stat cards — distance, vertical, difficulty
• Plan routes, drop pins, navigate to anything
WEATHER
• NEXRAD radar — a composite regional view, or tap any radar dome for super-res detail
• Lightning strikes that fade over ten minutes, storm cells with hail and rotation data, when the data is available
• See active wildfires with perimeters and the firefighting aircraft working them
• Wind flow animation, forecasts, and near-surface smoke
HUNTING
• GMUs, ownership, walk-in access, and terrain built for glassing country in 3D
SKIING
• Winter mode with terrain relief tuned for reading lines
All of it free. No subscription, no paywall, no feature gates. Coverage is state by state and still growing.
Information, not protection. Wayward GPS shows you data from public and community sources that can be wrong, coarse, or out of date — it is a planning tool, not a safety device, a warning system, or a substitute for official sources, your own eyes, and your own judgment. Alerts and forecasts may be delayed, incomplete, or absent, especially with no signal. In an emergency, call 911 or use your device's SOS.
Built by people who fish, ride, and hunt here. Data from USGS, NHD, USFS, BLM, NOAA/NWS, state wildlife agencies, and adsb.lol.
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We're now Wayward GPS — same app, same team, new name. Your maps, tracks, pins, and downloads are exactly where you left them.
• Whole trails: a long trail is one record with its sections, each with its own elevation profile, a reverse-direction button, and Go to.
• One elevation profile everywhere, drawn from our own terrain data.
• GuideBook rebuilt: one card format, trails and your own tracks by distance, tap a track to fly to it and share it.
• Segment times are honest: elapsed, moving, and your standing come from one clock and one leaderboard pool.
• Share cards carry the terrain, points of interest, and names.
• Rangefinder (Hunt and Ski) locked to the tip of your arrow.
• Faster, lighter map: streets and trails load promptly in town, and the map heals itself instead of going blank.
• Trail guides on named trails nationwide; campgrounds with write-ups and reservation links.
• Sharing in one chooser: Wayward link, GPX, KML, coordinates, Google pin.
• Settings: coordinate formats (DD, DDM, DMS, UTM, MGRS), units, keep the screen awake.
The developer, Wayward Navigation LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Wayward Navigation LLC
- Size
- 191.4 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Contests
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Wayward Navigation LLC
