Layered blue ridgelines folding away at dawn Evelyn Mostrom · CC0
FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CUT THE TREAD

Your trails, drawn from your own data.

Nobody knows your sections like you do — so nobody else should be the one to publish them. Hand us your GIS and your hikes, and we will put them on every phone that walks them, offline, for free.

Add your trails See the demo org

OurHike is a beta, and you should treat it as one. Your data stays yours, every section you publish is dated and reversible, and if this project ever goes away the map and the tooling are open source — you fork it and keep going. That is the promise Avenza's shutdown taught us to make in writing.

Four reasons orgs register

Everything below is true on the day you finish. None of it asks you to change how you already work.

Beautiful maps,
free to every hiker

Your sections drawn from your own geometry, with your own blaze colours, working with no bars and no data plan.

Crowd-source
trail problems

A blowdown reported at noon reaches the maintainer who covers that mile — not a generic inbox.

Every hiker learns
about volunteering

Your workdays appear where hikers already look — engage more volunteers, more frequently.

Members and donations
reach you directly

The money goes to trail organizations, not a VC-backed tech company. OurHike is maintained by volunteers and keeps nothing beyond what running it costs — we publish the whole split, payment fees included, before we ever ask you to opt in.

DEMO ORG · FAKE DATA, REAL GROUND

Central Park Throughikers

Want to see what your own pages would look like before you type anything? We keep a demo org on Central Park — six routes, 13.8 miles, 29 invented volunteers. Poke at all of it; nothing you do there matters.

Open the demo org

What registering actually involves

Registering takes five minutes today. Three stages follow it, and any of your admins can pick up any of them — nothing expires. After sign-off your trails are live, and the volunteer work carries on from there.

  1. THE ON-RAMP · TODAY

    Register the org

    Your web address, three admins, and where your giving pages live. About five minutes.

  2. STAGE 1 · A DAY OR TWO

    Admins approve

    Each of the three says yes by email. Whoever answers first picks up the registry.

  3. STAGE 2 · THE LONG CLIMB

    The hike registry

    Your GIS sections and featured hikes, read with you. An afternoon if your files are tidy.

  4. STAGE 3 · SIGN-OFF

    All three confirm it

    Your admins read the registry line by line. When they agree it publishes — and onboarding is done.

  5. THEN · ONGOING

    Your volunteers

    Roles, coverage, your roster and their welcome emails. Not a stage to finish — the work the tool exists for.

THE ON-RAMP · TODAY

Register your org

Sign in first. Registering names you as this organization's first admin, so we need to know who you are before the form means anything. Sign in to continue

We take the bare domain from this — ramapotrails.org — and it is what an admin's email address is checked against.

Admins

You can start on your own. Three admins have to approve before your trails publish, so name them whenever you have them — this page waits.

    Where the money goes

    Today this is a traffic job, not a treasury one: give us your own membership and donation pages and we put them in front of every hiker walking your sections. Hikers pay you directly, and we never see it.

    If we ever collect on your behalf, here is who takes what.

    Money would pass through Open Source Collective as our nonprofit fiscal host, which charges 10%. Stripe takes its published card fee. OurHike keeps a small share for servers and map hosting — no profit, no investors. Everything left is yours. Longer term we may form our own non-profit, which would cut that 10% host fee down as far as we can get it — more of the money would reach you, never us. We are also weighing holding back 1–3% as a long-term fund for the tool itself, and for grants to the things that make a trail worth walking twice: a good bench, a summit register, a hand-carved sign.

    None of this is live yet, and none of it is promised. No money passes through OurHike today and there is no arrangement under which it would. The shape being discussed is a quarterly payout once an org clears $1,000, net of those three shares.

    Nothing to sign today. A financial contact would only be asked for once payouts actually open.

    Nothing is published until all three admins approve.

    Not here for your own org?

    Two other ways in — both take about five minutes, and neither needs you to speak for anybody.

    A club you hike with isn't here

    Give us their website and we go looking for their trail data. You submit it; they take it over whenever they are ready.

    Submit their trails →

    Your org is already on here

    Somebody may have submitted your trails already. If you have an email at your org's domain, that is enough to take it over.

    Claim your org →