Sendero Maps
Everything You Didn't Know
You Needed on the Trail
AR trail discovery, 3D AR navigation, and expert knowledge on every trail — all in one app. Built for hikers who want more than a GPS dot.
Explore Trails
AR Trail Discovery
Point your phone at any landscape and Sendero overlays nearby trails directly onto your camera feed. See trail names, difficulty ratings, distances, and elevation — all floating in real space.
Trails visible up to 10km away with real-time compass tracking
Tap any label to instantly open the full trail info card
Labels scale with distance — closer trails appear larger and brighter
3D AR Navigation
A glowing ground-path ribbon is drawn right onto the world ahead of you. Follow the trail through your camera with turn-by-turn cues — no more squinting at a blue dot on a flat map.
Turn-by-turn AR cues anchored to the real trail ahead
Works alongside the live Mapbox map and GPS tracking
Audio guidance triggers automatically as you approach each turn
Trail Knowledge Panel
Geology, ecology, flora & fauna, and human history for every trail — in three depth tiers, from a quick Overview to a full Nerd Zone. Narrated audio as you hike.
Three depth tiers — Overview, Detailed, and Nerd Zone
Switch topics — Geology, Ecology, Flora & Fauna, History
Special knowledge unlocks — fossils, dinosaurs, and more
Narrated audio for every section, with synchronized word highlighting
Build Your Own Route
Tap to drop points and Sendero snaps them to the real trail network — no freehand scribbles. Distance and elevation update live, and your route is auto-named from the trails you stitch together.
Tap-to-drop waypoints that snap to real trails
Live distance, elevation gain & loss as you build
Auto-named from the trails you cross — stitch full combos
Save it, then navigate it with AR like any other trail
Meet Scout, your trail companion
Ask Scout anything about a trail, park, or region — and get answers grounded in Sendero's real guide, not the open web. Then describe the trip you want, from "shaded loop near the river, good for my dog" to "three days from Tuolumne Meadows down to the Valley", and Scout routes it on real trails and hands you the whole itinerary.
Ask anything — answers grounded in the real trail guide
Plain-language planning — describe it, get a real route with named legs
Multi-day thru-hikes — campsites along the way, and the permits you'll need
Says "that stretch is a drive" when the trails genuinely don't connect
Adventures, day by day
A multi-day trip is not one long line on a map. Sendero splits it into days at a pace you can actually walk, using real sunset times — then shows the whole route on one map with the elevation profile marked where each day ends.
Every day gets its own mileage, climb and walking time
Campsites matched to where each day actually ends
A night with no mapped campsite is flagged, not hidden
Overview map and elevation profile, pinned at every day's end
Trail Info & Overview
Know Before You Go
Every trail opens to a full info card — trail photos, distance, elevation, weather, and a narrated overview — so you know exactly what's ahead before your first step.
Try It — Explore a Real Trail
Half Dome via John Muir & Mist Trail
Tap through a real route the way you would in the app — switch trails, open the Trail Knowledge panel, start live tracking, and step into AR navigation.
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AR navigation, trail knowledge, and 200,000+ trails across all 50 states. See your trails like never before.