Wayward GPS

Know where you stand.

Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

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 Wayward GPS shows you data from public and community sources that can be wrong, coarse, or out of date — it is a planning tool, not a safety device, a warning system, or a substitute for official sources, your own eyes, and your own judgment.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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Ask the map, go offline for real, and read the ground under every route. • Ask the map: tap the microphone and ask in plain words — "a two-hour ride at Glorieta", "routes up Truchas Peak from the north" — and the answer comes back as lit candidates on the map, with miles, climbing and the time it should take you. Open to everyone, signed in or not. • Offline, for real: a downloaded state map paints first and stays put while you pan, the app says OFFLINE MODE on screen whenever it is on, with a tap to turn it off, and the satellite view no longer claims you need a connection when you have one. The map offers the offline map when service is cutting in and out and you have the area downloaded. • Drawn routes read the ground: a route along a road or across open country gets an elevation profile from the contours already in your state map, with no connection. A climb the app cannot measure prints a dash, never a zero. • Trails read the way they are ridden: profiles start where the arrows start, and public itineraries carry direction arrows along the ribbon. • Contours: one set of lines at every zoom, and on satellite the lines carry a tight halo only where a line is drawn. • Hunt: tap any unit for draw odds and harvest success with no state map downloaded. • Training: COROS and Strava activities carry the watch's own totals into your log; pull down to refresh. • A refreshed App Store listing: what is free, in plain words. No subscription. No trial.

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

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Seller
Wayward Navigation LLC
Size
213.8 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.5 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.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
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