Colorado Trail Explorer is a maps & navigation app developed by State of Colorado - Governor's Office of IT.
Download Statistics
Colorado Trail Explorer has been downloaded 210 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.5 thousand times.
User Ratings
Colorado Trail Explorer is rated 4.23 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 300 ratings.
App Information
Colorado Trail Explorer is FREE to download. The APK download size is 70.84 MB. The latest version available is 1.7.2. The last update was on January 29, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Colorado Trail Explorer requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play October 2018.
Description
Discover and explore Colorado’s unique trail experiences with the Colorado Trail Explorer (COTREX). Available for free and without ads, COTREX offers the most comprehensive official trail map in the state and is a collaborative effort spanning over 230 trail managers.
View trails by allowed uses on the map, browse featured routes, download offline maps, view closures, alerts, wildfire boundaries and avalanche forecasts, record trips and notes in the field, 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 recommendations from experts that match your activities or interests.
Change activity type to dynamically filter trails on the map whether hiking, biking, riding, skiing, snowshoeing and more.
■ DOWNLOAD MAPS
No cell coverage? No problem! Download free 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.
■ VIEW ADVISORIES, CLOSURES, AND CONDITIONS FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES
More land managers use COTREX than any other app in Colorado to show their real-time closures and advisories. Know when and where a trail is closed before you leave the house, review real-time wildfire updates, and see daily avalanche forecasts all straight from the experts.
■ PLAN AND RECORD YOUR TRIPS
Measure the distance and elevation profile for any trail segment quickly and easily to plan your next trip.
Capture the details of your outdoor experiences by recording Trips.
■ SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY
Inform and inspire the entire COTREX community by sharing your Trips and Field Notes publicly or submitting Trip Reports.
By sharing your experiences, you also help to inform trail managers about current conditions on the ground.
■ ABOUT COTREX
Colorado Trail Explorer aims to map every official trail in the state of Colorado. 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.
COTREX is unique in that the app only shows information from official sources. No unreliable crowdsourced information or recommendations from someone on the other side of the country. Everything you see in COTREX has been reviewed and approved by the managers and experts local to that area.
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.
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Wonderful app with amazing features!.. And it's free! Handy measuring tool snaps to available trails. Downloadable maps for exploring in the mountains when you have no internet connection. I find this app more useful than All Trails for hiking in Colorado. I just wonder why so few people have reviewed this great product. Perhaps they're all out hiking.
★★★★☆Maggie Michalowski· Aug 16, 2023
+ Easy to track routes or make your own after the fact or as planing Downloadable maps is awesome Great info on all the trails I know of Elevation gain and loss (when it works) Free - Had to reinstall because it couldn't find my location Doesn't say trail difficulty. Would be a major plus for mountain biking Elevation gain/loss is buggy. By definition if I travel on a loop they should be equal but one is often several hundred feet off from the other Sometimes can't figure out that trails connect
★☆☆☆☆Justin Wild· Mar 20, 2022
This app is fantastic except for a fatal flaw that drops it from 5 stars to 1. When the app is not in the foreground for more than 5 minutes, route recording pauses. This makes it basically worthless for tracking activities because using your camera without switching back to the app results in your recording stopping, and you miss the rest of your activity (or until you manually reopen the app and resume recording). Once this issue is fixed, I won't use anything else.
★☆☆☆☆Don Mildrum· Sep 30, 2025
Does not show game hunting units in Colorado. Worthless for hunting.
★★☆☆☆Alfa Ranken· May 26, 2025
Tap on a trail, and you get some info, but I'm looking for the rating of the trail and whether there's a fee. Why does it have to zoom way out when I search? I find an area I want to explore and search for trails classified as easy, and it zooms out so that I don't know where I was. (Just like Google Maps. Just as annoying.)
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