Reviews of Colorado Trail Explorer

By: State of Colorado - Governor's Office of IT App

List of user reviews and ratings for Colorado Trail Explorer

Total ratings

4.29

Rating count: 314

Recent rating average: 4.30

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Review summary

Reviewers generally praise Colorado Trail Explorer for its extensive Colorado-specific information, useful navigation, offline maps, and free features. Repeated concerns include incomplete or outdated trail coverage, high battery consumption, and difficulties finding trails at the right map zoom. Some users also want phone landscape support. Overall, it is widely considered a valuable app for exploring Colorado, despite these data and usability limitations.

Pros

Broad, useful Colorado trail maps and information, including closures, land agencies, and other outdoor details.
Free access to many features that other apps may charge for, including downloadable map tiles.
Helpful navigation and location tracking on trails; several reviewers report accurate positioning and distance measurements.
Many reviewers find it clean, responsive, and a strong alternative to AllTrails for exploring Colorado.

Cons

Trail coverage and information can be incomplete or outdated; reviewers mention missing newer or less-official trails and gaps in search results.
Battery use is a recurring concern, with some reviewers reporting substantial drain during use.
Finding trails and map layers can be difficult: search may change the map zoom unexpectedly, and some routes disappear at wider zoom levels.
Phone landscape mode is unavailable, a limitation mentioned by multiple reviewers.

User Reviews 70

super useful, thank you.

Trail information around Keystone (Tenderfoot Trail System especially) are out of date. Newer trails (Power Hair, Death Hair, Frog, ++ are not shown or updated from 2024.

What an amazing and appropriate service for the outdoor enthusiasts in our great state!

LisabethDixon Save

best app for actively closed trails in Colorado. Only complaint is links to forestry department tend to be 404 now.

Nice one, Colorado! Hey other states, Google, you need this.

Does not show game hunting units in Colorado. Worthless for hunting.

I love this app, how much information is about the trails, making my own maps, etc.! I've recently been having an issue though where I create a trail, export the .gpx file to Google drive, open it in Garmin Connect, and the trail stops about 50% of the way through. So a 6 mile trail created here only imports the first 3 miles when transferring it to Garmin.

Nearly ideal to find trails and navigate. I use it for backpacking and it's great. I wish the app was better at customizing a route (marking camp sites and segmenting a route over multiple days would be helpful).

This is an amazing app for the price (Free!). The display is clean, the information is updated, the trail logging feature is great, and the ability to download tiles also works very well. I wish other states would hire the same developers!

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