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Teaming up with FarOut Guides, we’ve taken the contents of The Florida Trail Guide, added interactivity that’s impossible inside a book, presented it on a accurate map of the Florida Trail, and made it an interactive experience for planning your hikes.
Smartphone versions are available in the Google Play and Apple Stores. Or opt for a browser-based version you can use on your tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. Try out the functionality with a free sample of the Okeechobee East section.
We do the Legwork
Every hiking season, we’re out on the trail collecting updates for the app and guidebook. We do not rely on free government resources for our GPS data: we hike the trail. That’s the only way we can bring you thousands of waypoints with personalized notes and photos across more than 1,400 miles of the Florida Trail and its connected side trails.
We are fortunate to have a good rapport with local volunteers and with the Florida Trail Association staff, who make sure we get updates for significant relocations of the trail during the year, and we’re thankful to be able to immediately pass those on to the programming team at Atlas Guides to splice them in so the location of the trail inside the app stays up to date.
We hike those changes to the trail as our schedule permits. We do a big push every fall, before thru-hikers hit the trail in the winter, to gather together all of the emails, messages, notes, and feedback from hikers to push updates out about services and campsites.
We also contribute a portion of the profits back into the Florida Trail, both through the Florida Trail Association and the Florida Trail Hikers Alliance.
They do the Tech
The programming wizards for FarOut built incredible functionality into their apps. Some of the key features include waypoint commenting – a blessing for hikers to leave notes for each other on current trail and services conditions – as well as social sharing to a broad or narrow audience, the ability to set up and plan routes, and to record your own GPS track as you hike.
Grab Yours
The FarOut Guide app is free to download. The Florida Trail section of the app comes with a free segment, Okeechobee East (57 miles) so you can try out all the app features. Other regions vary in price from $4.99 to $8.99.
You can also buy the full “thru-hiker” bundle for $39.99, a 47% savings off purchasing the regions individually. Once you make any purchase, you receive future updates at no extra cost.
For hikers tackling the Eastern Continental Trail from Key West to Quebec, we have apps covering the Florida Keys and mainland routes to follow to reach the southern terminus of the Florida Trail. This portion of the ECT route is included in the Florida Trail thru-hiker bundle.
Largely following the historic Overseas Railroad, the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail is a linear state park from Key West to Key Largo, most popular for cyclists but also used by hikers tackling the Eastern Continental Trail. Our app for this trail also maps out all the adjoining nature trails you’ll find throughout the Florida Keys.
If you only need one region of the Florida Trail, you can buy it as a standalone app segment. Regions include:
SOUTH FLORIDA: Big Cypress, Seminole, and Okeechobee West, from Oasis Visitor Center to Okee-tantie. 150 miles, $6.99. PURCHASE.
OKEECHOBEE EAST: The eastern route around Lake Okeechobee, which can be used in lieu of or together with Okeechobee West to loop the lake. 56.5 miles, FREE. TRY IT.
OCEAN-TO-LAKE: Side trail connecting from Okeechobee East to the Atlantic Ocean, a great backpacking trip for Southeast Florida. 61 miles, $4.99. PURCHASE.
CENTRAL FLORIDA: Kissimmee and Orlando sections, from Okee-tantie north to Clearwater Lake in the Ocala National Forest. Includes loops at Bull Creek and Tosohatchee. 262 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
CENTRAL FLORIDA WEST: Also known as the Western Corridor. Roadwalk from Three Lakes to Green Swamp, Green Swamp East & West (includes Bigfoot BSA camp and other loops), Richloam, Croom, Citrus (including loops), Withlacoochee State Trail, Cross Florida Greenway, and Ocala West. 240 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
OCALA NORTHEAST: Includes the Ocala and Northeast Florida sections, from Clearwater Lake north to Deep Creek trailhead at the north end of Osceola National Forest. 185 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
SUWANNEE BIG BEND: Includes the Suwannee River section, private timberlands, Aucilla, and St. Marks NWR. 190 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
EASTERN PANHANDLE: Includes the Apalachicola National Forest, Altha Trail, Econfina, Pine Log, Nokuse, and connecting roadwalks. 178 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
WESTERN PANHANDLE: Includes Eglin Air Force Base, Yellow River Ravines, and Seashore. 214 miles, $8.99. PURCHASE.
BLACKWATER: The official connector trail of the Florida Trail to the Alabama border, part of the larger Eastern Continental Trail. 45 miles, $4.99. PURCHASE.
EASTERN CONTINENTAL TRAIL: The south end of the Eastern Continental Trail in Florida, comprised of roadwalks and levee trails connecting Key Largo and the southern terminus of the Florida Trail in Big Cypress National Preserve. 92 miles, $4.99. PURCHASE.
