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title: "Colorado Trail Explorer - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Discover and explore Colorado’s unique trail experiences with the Colorado Trail Explorer. Available for free, COTREX offers the most comprehensive trail map available for the state and is built atop "
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# Colorado Trail Explorer — United States
> Colorado's Official Trail Map

![Colorado Trail Explorer App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/26/bb/55/26bb5595-982f-ff5a-e8ea-901539920fef/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/400x400bb.png)

**Developer:** [State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology](https://apptail.io/developer/state-of-colorado-governors-office-of-information-technology-Pfcd) (United States)
**Category:** Navigation
**Rating:** 4.4/5 (253 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.naturalatlas.ios.cotrex
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.8.0 (released 2026-10-02)
**Original Release:** 2018-10-30

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1435737776)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/colorado-trail-explorer-fOp/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/colorado-trail-explorer-fOp/united-states)

## Colorado Trail Explorer Description
Discover and explore Colorado’s unique trail experiences with the Colorado Trail Explorer. Available for free, COTREX offers the most comprehensive trail map available for the state and is built atop data from over 230 trail managers.

View trails by allowed uses on the map, browse featured routes, download offline maps, record trips and notes in the field, complete challenges to earn badges, and share your experiences with the community. COTREX is your gateway into Colorado’s magnificent outdoors. 

■ DISCOVER TRAILS & FEATURED ROUTES

– Browse or search to find trails and Feature Routes that match your activities or interests.
– Change activity type to dynamically filter trails on the map.

■ OFFLINE MAPS

– No cell coverage? No problem! Download maps ahead of time for a continuous experience that doesn’t depend on your network. 
– COTREX offline maps are lightweight in size and easy to download. 

■ RECORD TRIPS & FIELD NOTES

– Capture the details of your outdoor experiences by recording Trips.
– Go beyond simple photos by taking and classifying rich Field Notes along the way. Choose from 45,000+ classifications that include trail conditions, species, rocks and minerals, historic places, points of interest, and much more.
– Seamlessly sync activity recorded on your devices with the web. 

■ COMPLETE CHALLENGES TO EARN BADGES

– By recording and classifying Field Notes, you can complete Challenges and earn Badges for your profile. 

■ SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY

– Inform and inspire the entire COTREX community by sharing your Trips and Field Notes publicly or submitting Trip Reports. 
– View activity feeds for all users or just the ones you follow.
– By sharing your experiences, you also help to inform trail managers about current conditions on the ground. 

■ ABOUT COTREX

The Colorado Trail Explorer endeavors to map every trail in the state of Colorado in support of the Colorado the Beautiful Initiative. COTREX connects people, trails, and technology by coordinating the efforts of federal, state, county, and local agencies to create a comprehensive repository of recreational trails for public use. 

This project is led by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and Department of Natural Resources, but is only made possible through partnerships with organizations at every level statewide. COTREX represents a seamless network of trails managed by over 230 land managers.

■ DISCLAIMERS

[Battery Life] We do everything we can to make the app low power when recording, but GPS is notorious for reducing battery life

Terms: 
Privacy Policy: 

## Colorado Trail Explorer Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/11/15/54/1115547f-ec00-5c25-57e4-9951b047808c/apple-6.5in-retina-1.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/75/58/1a/75581a5c-76c5-1877-a733-165ab7342912/apple-6.5in-retina-2.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/92/3f/f0/923ff05b-7d5f-bce9-5c72-84e47d111824/apple-6.5in-retina-3.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/90/80/84/90808432-8083-27ee-3fb0-9d21bac4ba5f/apple-6.5in-retina-4.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/71/69/45/71694537-033a-ee9d-5fa7-d344393171f8/apple-6.5in-retina-6.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/2e/aa/b1/2eaab17b-f573-fce0-cf03-53fecfbe8cf9/apple-6.5in-retina-5.png/1242x2688.png)

## Colorado Trail Explorer Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 172 (68%)
- 4 stars: 37 (15%)
- 3 stars: 19 (8%)
- 2 stars: 11 (4%)
- 1 stars: 14 (6%)

## Colorado Trail Explorer Reviews in United States

### ****- "Good trustworthy app but"
Satellite layer is at least 4 years old. Needs updated.
-- Retired2Hunt, 2024-12-04

### ***** "Best app for exploring Colorado, some UX issues"
Please please please reimplement one handed zooming. Literally every other map app under the sun lets you zoom with one hand/one finger. This causes such headache for me. I am perpetually trying to tap and slide to zoom (due to muscle memory since Apple Maps, AllTrails, Google Maps, Trails Off-road all working this way), but en up selecting random things and messing up my navigation.
-- Repo2, 2024-10-01

### ****- "Trip Trim function error message"
Love this app. If i try to trim my bike recording by first tapping Edit, then sliding the slider, then Save. Then I receive error message 

“Error

TypeError: Undefined is not a function.

OK”

Thanks for your help
-- MTBers, 2024-09-16

### ***** "My favorite trail app"
This is such a great app -- and we are so fortunate to have it here in Colorado!

The ability to build out custom routes using all of the existing segments, and having the route snap to the existing trails is stellar. And the option to loop or do a one-tap out and back option? What a quality of life boost.

Being able to follow an area to receive updates on closures or public notices is also great, and the offline functionality? Dope.

I forget to use the field notes portion when im on runs, but it seems like a great way for trail managers to get crowdsourced realtime data on trail issues or animal and plant patterns. 

All in all, i hope the state continues to fund this because what an improvement on the various paywalled apps. Its our land, and i love being able to use it knowledgeably!
-- Raptorfromspace, 2024-08-25

### **--- "No Apple Watch Compatability"
I really really love this app, I use it every time I dirt bike. However, the inability to use this app on my Apple Watch is highly inconvenient. I ride hard enduro, which means I’m unable to mount my phone to my dirt bike handle bars. Having to stop at each fork in the trail/road is such a hassle.

I’m probably alone on this, but, I’d much rather glance down at my watch rather than pull my phone out. If the devs made this compatible with the watch I’d pay money for it! 

Cheers!
-- Lance ArmHammer, 2024-07-17

### ***-- "Wildly Inaccurate"
This app needs it mapping updated terribly. Hiking trails that have been opened or closed in the last five years have not been updated. Forest service roads from the last twenty years are not updated. Some areas have been sold to private citizens so using this app you will find yourself trespassing or having to turn around without completing a trail. Seasonal closures are also wildly inaccurate. If this is a state ran app then this is why the government needs less control. Some features are awesome like planning your route, elevation change and more accurate distances than AllTrails. Yet the apps shortcomings are aggravating and dangerous to say the least.
-- GetLost98, 2024-04-14

### ***** "Best app by far"
I’ve tried them all, this is the clear winner and it’s free. I wish other states would add in this this but thankfully 99 percent of my hiking is in Colorado.  

Could the developers add game unit, private land, and previous wild fire layers? That is the only thing this app is missing  but even without this, this is the best app I’ve ever used and I’ve paid for most the others.  Good work devs!
-- blaskoa, 2023-11-27

### ***** "Please make a Garmin friendly app!"
I would really like to use the new Garmin watches for a GPS on OHV and single track trails for a quick glance rather than stopping to pull out a phone.  Only way this app could get better in my opinion.
-- BYapes, 2023-11-11

### ***-- "Quirky"
I had high hopes for this app, but unfortunately it's useless. It can't receive a GPS signal (and yes, my phone has buit-in GPS). It just kept saying it's unable to lock on to GPS because it doesn't have access to location services, yet there is no option anywhere I can find in the app or on the iPhone's settings to grant said access. The app doesn't appear in the list of apps in the iPhone "Privacy" settings, so there's no way to grant access there, and there are no options within the settings of the app itself to grant access. Once I deleted and reinstalled the app, thugh, it properly registered itself with iOS and was able to access location services.
-- COSSnowbiker, 2023-10-26

### ***** "For me, a necessity"
I love this app. Lets you make notes about what you encounter, lets you see national forest/park boundaries, record your hikes/drives/etc… I use it all the time and like that the info is “from the horse’s mouth” (from the state itself, not from a 3rd party). Just super well done. I also appreciate the recently added feature of being able to trim your recordings in the event you forget to stop it before you drive back from a hike.
-- GsCO719, 2023-09-20

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