Trails LA County2026.10.1 - App Store

From the desert to the mountains and to the sea, Trails LA County is the official trail guide to hundreds of miles of public multi-use trails across Los Angeles County. Featuring accurate, updated trail maps, Trails LA County shows you where you are on the trail and guides you along your journey.

Trails LA County includes maps of trails, maps of regional parks and open spaces, curated outings, beautiful photographs, succinct descriptions, and helpful information. Trails LA County will help you enjoy the beautiful trails and diverse landscapes offered throughout the County with confidence that you are on the right path!

Trails LA County was created by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation in collaboration with the United States National Park Service, California State Parks, Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority, Mountains Restoration Trust, and the Catalina Island Conservancy.

# Features

- GPS shows where you are while out on the trail
- Accurate maps of more than 500 miles of public, multi-use trails
- Curated outings
- Beautiful landscape photography
- Pertinent trail use information
- Succinct trail descriptions
- Information about outdoor events
- Partner organization information

Please contact LA County Department of Parks and Recreation Trails Planning at trails@parks.lacounty.gov with any questions about Trails LA County.

(This app uses background location to let you know when you're approaching a task location for challenges you're participating in. Continued use of background location may decrease battery life.)

Version History Photo challenges open reliably, pulling to refresh in Explore no longer freezes the app, and organization screens open offline after you've visited them. Photo galleries show larger photos, maps frame parks more accurately, and a stalled offline download ends with a retry option.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.10.1 Oct 2 Content can still open when the app cannot save a downloaded copy on your device. This update fixes a loading failure that could affect articles and other details.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.3 Sep 14 Get clearer feedback when saving check-ins, refreshing feeds, and managing offline maps. Find upcoming events with less waiting, choose your preferred units, and recover from account-loading problems without another login.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.2 Sep 11 Sign-in sessions are more reliable when you log out or switch accounts. Your profile also has a clearer layout, and downloaded communities and saved challenges stay available with a poor connection.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.1 Sep 6 Maps reopen with the right view and filters, and search results respond without blocking the screen. Offline challenge responses, pending posts, favorites, and notification settings also recover more reliably.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.6 Sep 1 Trail and outing paths and area outlines draw on location maps again, including the map preview and View Map on each location page.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.5 Aug 29 Spanish translations are back throughout the app, and challenges you've finished show a Completed pill on Home and the challenge screen. Posts publish once even if a slow photo upload leads you to try again, Explore search returns results much faster, expanding Additional Information no longer freezes location pages, and partially closed trails and areas show their own map style.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.4 Aug 28 Update your email from Profile settings without losing your account progress, and badge-sharing cards close smoothly when you tap outside them.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.3 Aug 24 Challenges, events, and your community home now recognize their sponsors. Community maps pick up closure changes sooner and stay available when a refresh fails, and offline access and everyday interactions are more reliable throughout the app.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.2 Aug 22 Settings is organized into clearly titled groups, so options are easier to find. Text follows your preferred size across the app with better VoiceOver support, and maps and nearby results follow the real shape of trails, areas, and community borders.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.1 Aug 6 Press and hold on the map works again, community maps and feeds stay true to the community you're in, and screens that hit a bad connection now offer a Try Again button instead of a dead end.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.4 Jul 24 Distances and arrival checks now follow the real shape of large areas and trails, so you won't see "You're Here" when you're still miles away. Challenges also load more reliably — including big multi-location passports — and the Social tab, Home screen, and organization screens got a round of polish.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.3 Jul 21 Organization and photo challenge screens now open faster, while still showing the complete challenge details and submission totals when you need them. This release also fixes required surveys during Hawai'i Hunting Challenge check-ins.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.2 Jul 17 Adventure Mode is here: turn it on and Trails LA County greets you when you arrive at a participating area, with a one-tap shortcut to jump right in. Challenge location alerts bring that same awareness to your challenges, with a notification the moment you reach a task location. This release also adds visitor alerts throughout the app and clearer closure details at a glance, plus a big round of polish and bug fixes.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.1 Jul 15 Images now fade in gently as they load instead of popping into place, and we've fixed sorting, paper maps, push notification links, and a handful of other rough edges across the app.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.10 Jun 26 Images now fade in gently as they load instead of popping into place, and we've fixed sorting, paper maps, push notification links, and a handful of other rough edges across the app.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.9 Jun 20 This update adds a subscriptions list to your Saved tab and new age verification tooling at account creation, along with a batch of visual polish, stability improvements, and bug fixes across challenges, articles, maps, and location screens.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.8 Jun 17 This update fixes an issue that could prevent your community from loading the first time you open the app after installing.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.7 Jun 13 This release completes a major behind-the-scenes modernization of the app's interface, and fixes a wide range of onboarding, navigation, map, and content issues.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.6 Jun 12 This update fixes a crash some explorers ran into when opening challenges and moving between screens.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.5 Jun 9 This release fixes a crash when opening some challenges, makes participating in challenges offline more reliable, shows which category your photo challenge posts belong to, and resolves a wide range of challenge, Social, and navigation issues.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.4 Jun 9 This release resolves a wide range of navigation, challenge, photo challenge, and Create-flow issues, and refines the Create menu, Explore, and Me tab experiences.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.3 Jun 8 A polish-heavy release bringing stretchy banner art and a persistent pull-to-refresh indicator to detail screens, smoother and more reliable Home content, and a long list of refinements across challenges, articles, organization and location screens, and the map.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.1 Jun 3 A small follow-up release that improves Me tab stability and keeps detail-screen tabs feeling steady when you switch between them.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.05.4 May 28 A small follow-up release that improves tab stability, restores Explore map selection after backgrounding, and cleans up the placeholder icons on location cards without photos.

If you're enjoying Trails LA County, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.05.3 May 23