Static maps age quickly
A seasonal reroute or new permission can leave last year's file giving the wrong answer.
For Maine and New England trail clubs
Keep one current trail record for your club and riders.
Your club's knowledge gives riders a better starting point. Publish the information you stand behind, work from the office or the field, and review what riders report.
Core mapping, moderation, imports and field updates are free for clubs.
Trail information changes faster than static channels do
DynamicTrail gives clubs and riders a shared place to improve the record, with an owner and a review path for every update.
Social posts are easy to miss
An important closure can disappear beneath newer posts before the next weekend.
Knowledge concentrates in one volunteer
The record should remain useful when the trail master is unavailable or leadership changes.
Field reports need a decision
Riders are often the first to see a problem. Their reports give the club a useful starting point, and the club decides what becomes official.
Specific and attributable
Show what changed, where it applies and who maintains it
- Place a closure, a condition or a rule on the affected stretch instead of the whole trail
- Add the club's note and an expiry when the condition is temporary
- Keep the maintaining club and its approval visible with the trail
- Every route a rider plans and every alert they hear follows from that one posting: the map guide spells out how
A shared path from club knowledge to rider guidance
Load the trail system
Attach GPX or KML files during onboarding, upload them later, or build the map with us.
Publish official information
Your Trail Masters and Officers mark stretches, post restrictions, place pins and keep the lines right, from the office or standing on the trail.
Receive field observations
Riders help fill in the record by reporting a hazard, attaching a photo or proposing a correction, including while offline.
Review before publishing
A Trail Master or Officer applies, adjusts or declines what riders send. Published history can be reviewed and restored.
How your club gets the keys
Nothing on a club's map is edited by anybody the club has not let in. Here is how a club comes onboard and how it decides who may do what.
An officer asks
Create a free account and fill in the club form: the club's name is enough to begin. Add each trail system with its activity and towns, and a GPX or KML file if you have one.
We set the club up
DynamicTrail creates the club, its trail systems with an outline from the towns you named, and the assignment between them, together. The club is marked participating: from then on its own officers decide, and nothing on its systems becomes official without them.
Riders ask the club for standing
Anyone signed in can ask to join from the club's page in the app or from the website. Your Officers see the request and choose the rank: Member edits lines and pins, Trail Master and Officer also mark, post and approve, Officers run the roster.
The board and the ranks agree
A position on the board decides the rank that goes with it, so the roster and the permissions never disagree. A club always keeps at least one signed-in Officer.
The club decides its roster
A join request names the person and the rank they asked for. An Officer can grant that rank, a different one, or decline. A rider without standing can still send suggestions; standing is what lets them go further.
See the review loop
Riders do not change your map. What they send waits in the club's own queues, and a Trail Master or Officer decides. These demonstrations use test conditions to show the rider and officer sides of the same workflow.
Three queues, all the club's
- Pending approval: new trails, pins and areas riders sent, and imported archives, each waiting to be published or declined
- Suggested changes: a rider's proposed edit to a trail that is already on the map, shown beside the current version
- Deleted items: what was taken off the map, and the way to put it back
- Members can read the queues; Trail Masters and Officers decide. The same queues are on the website under Manage.
Decide with the rider's note in front of you
A proposal shows what would change and why the rider thinks so. Apply it as sent, adjust it first, or decline it with a reason the rider can read. What was decided, and who decided it, stays with the trail.
A rider marks the affected stretch
The observation includes the location, condition, duration and a note for the club.
- Open the trail and its current club-published markings
- Choose Suggest a change
- Select the start and end of the affected stretch
- Choose the condition and when it should expire
- Add a note for the club
- Send it for review; the official map has not changed yet
Screen recording, sped up, no sound.
An officer reviews the proposal
The club sees the proposed difference and the rider's note before deciding what to publish.
- Open the club's pending work
- Review the proposed change and supporting note
- Apply it, adjust it or decline with a reason
- Publish the accepted marking to the club's trail record
The app keeps the decision with the club responsible for the trail.
Edit the map from the field or from a desk
Pick a trail on the phone and one card opens over it with everything your rank allows. The same tools, on a bigger screen, are on the website.
One card, every tool
- Reshape a line, split it anywhere, join two trails whose ends meet, reverse one
- Mark a stretch, open the details, or delete the trail
- The trail stays highlighted until you are done, and the card offers only what your rank allows
- Marking works with no signal; it is saved on the phone and sent when coverage returns
Several markings from one sheet
- Pick the stretch once, tick every marking that applies: a washout and a speed limit, a closure and the reason
- Each marking carries its own number, direction or hours; the note, days and expiry are shared
- A rule never expires on its own; a condition does, so the map tidies itself
- Every marking a club can post
Your club keeps control of its own map
Your Officers decide who in the club can change what. Everyone else can suggest, and the club decides.
Edit from a desk or the field
Draw, reshape, split, join and reverse trails on the website's map editor, or with the same tools in the app.
Ranks your club assigns
Members edit trails. Trail Masters and Officers also publish markings and decide what riders send. Officers run the roster.
Every change can be undone
Edits go into each trail's history, conflicting saves are stopped rather than merged, and an earlier version can be restored.
What clubs can use without charge
Core mapping and moderation are free because participating clubs and helpful riders are what make the experience useful.
Trail mapping
Draw, import, reshape, split, join, reverse and restore trails, from a browser or the app.
Conditions and restrictions
Publish closures, hazards, restricted stretches, operating hours and other trail-specific guidance.
Rider moderation
Review suggested trails, corrections, markings, photos and condition reports.
Offline field work
Edit and collect observations without cell service, then send them when coverage returns.
Club participation
Manage roster roles and join requests, publish events and accept volunteer observations. Who can do what.
GPX and KML intake
Bring an existing trail archive onto an editable map first, tidy it with the same tools, then send it to the club's queue. How importing works.
What we're building for clubs next, and how to try it first.
Bring in what you already have
An archive is not dumped onto the map. It opens as a map of its own, where the club tidies it before anybody else sees a line.
Tidy first, send second
- Reshape, split, join, reverse, draw and delete the file's trails; mark a stretch on any of them
- Type pins by the category the file used, tie them to the trail they belong to, leave rows out and put them back
- Send some or all of it: the rows land in the club's pending queue, so an officer never meets half-tidied work
- A Trail Master or Officer can also approve what they just sent, and it goes on the club's map now
- The app keeps its staging on the phone, so an import can be tidied with no signal
What we're building for clubs next
The map, the review queues, importing and the roster are free and always will be. Around them, we are building tools for the office work a club does all year. They exist today and are switched on club by club while we learn what fits. Every club starts with them off.
Landowner records
Contacts, agreements and parcels, kept with the trails they cover, and the log of every conversation with a landowner.
Membership and dues
Dues periods, the roster and a record of who has paid, without a second spreadsheet.
Events and planned rides
A ride library built from the club's own map and events riders sign up for. Viewing and signing up are free to every rider today.
Sponsor spots
Sponsor placements on the club's map and a count of riders who checked in at each.
Grant tracking
Enrol in a state programme, see what each claim still needs, sign off the grooming log, keep the work and expense ledger, and build the claim packet in the state's own sheets.
Managing from a browser
Every one of these runs on the website as well as the app, so the treasurer and the trail master can each work where they already are.
Want to try one? Tell us.
If one of these would help your club this season, say so and your club goes on the testers list for it. Testers get the tool switched on early, in exchange for telling us what works on a real club's books. Nothing is charged for these tools today, and whether any of them will ever carry a price has not been decided.
Onboarding now? The club form asks what matters to your club. Tick the tools there and we already know.
Club onboarding
Help riders find a better answer.
Create a free account and submit your club name. Add trail systems, towns and GPX or KML files if you have them; incomplete details and trail files can be supplied later. Your club's participation gives riders a current place to start, and their observations help your volunteers see what needs attention.
- Your club name is enough to begin a request
- A trail file is optional
- One request can describe several trail systems
- Nothing becomes official without club review
A DynamicTrail account is required so the request can be returned to you and approved securely.