West Coast Trail 4+
Essential Backpackers Guide
Orca Labs LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
West Coast Trail is the essential guide for hikers looking to backpack the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, BC.
This app provides all the essentials at your fingertips, including:
- Setup your unique dates and camps to customize for your trip.
- Critical tide-tides for beach sections that have tide restrictions are automatically calculated using Tofino tide charts and adjusted for Daylight Savings.
- Interactive Map allows exploration of points of interest and trail highlights.
- The trail will dynamically change based on your trip direction (north/south)
- Ladder locations and rung count
- Trail Descriptions
- Shipwreck Details
- Water Sources
- Campsite Satellite Images
- Daily summary of distances, tides and ladders.
- Saved Trips allows you to try many different options, or plan for a YOYO hike.
- Sunrise, Sunset
- Trail Weather for precision locations along the trail*
- Works Offline with no internet*
- GPS location shows you exact spot on the official map*
* Feature requires one of the paid upgrade plans:
PLUS: Offline support
PRO: Access GPS and Trail Weather
Terms & Conditions:
https://www.westcoasttrail.app/terms
What’s New
Version 1.7.5
Tide data update for 2025 season.
Ratings and Reviews
Everything you need to know
As a seasoned long-distance backpacker, I generally just care about my GPS location and the next water and campsite when I’m hiking—not so on this hike. On this trail, the descriptions and difficulty level (as well as the split into sections) were absolute gold. They were the main things we took into account when decision-making on a recent 5-day, 4-night thru-hike of the WCT. The ladder listings were so helpful for morale, and we used the tide suggestions constantly. The creator of this app really considered exactly what you need on this exact trail.
Could we have easily finished in 5 days without this app? Maybe, but there would have been so many more unknowns and I doubt we could have planned our days so well. We loved reading the section descriptions for our next day at camp each night. And how else would we have understood what a donkey engine is without the option to define it within the app? They thought of absolutely everything! I’m from the US so I did have cell service on nearly every beach, but I never once needed to touch it for navigation and planning. I’m so thankful this was released just in time for our first time on the WCT.
Detailed and user friendly
I wish every trail had an app this informative and well put together. Markers are accurate, tides are incorporated based on hiking dates, and it’s easy to plan your entire trip by using this app alone. I love the added features like the menu for the mid-trek crab shack, and details like the number of ladders in a forest section, or tips for good spots to set a tent. Full of helpful features and each improvement makes it better and better. Highly recommend!
Excellent
Just used this on the trail last week and it was extremely helpful. From itinerary planning, very accurate tide charts, to knowing what each section of the trail would be like, to weather, it honestly covered all of the details that anyone would want to know. Very impressed - extremely well done. Thank you!
App Privacy
The developer, Orca Labs 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Orca Labs LLC
- Size
- 54.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Orca Labs LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- West Coast Trail Pro $29.99
- West Coast Trail PLUS $19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.