AllTrails GPX Download

AllTrails built its trail database on years of community contributions, both directly and via OSM. They still let you see all the trails on their website (it would be ironic if they didn’t!), but you can no longer export to GPX on desktop without a paid subscription… even though the route data is already being downloaded every time you load a trail on their site. It’s a purely artificial restriction designed to juice their subscription revenue.

I made a little tool that lets you export to GPX again. Once you have a GPX file, you can open it in another mapping app or load it onto a GPS device.

The tool is in the form of a userscript, which is a small bit of code that changes how a website works in your browser. In order to install userscripts, you need a userscript manager, which is a browser extension that installs the script and runs it for you when you visit the target site.

If you don’t already have a userscript manager, try Tampermonkey. Userscripts is another option for Safari.

↓ Download the userscript

Your userscript manager should ask you to install it. If you just see a page of code or your browser saves a file, you don’t have a userscript manager installed and enabled. Install/enable one, then click the link again.

Once it’s installed, open or reload an AllTrails trail page. Choose Export map file from the three-dot menu, or click Download GPX below the trail name.