Community Waypoints and Your Waypoints
Waypoints help you save, view, and organize useful points on the map, like campsites, water sources, landmarks, navigation notes, and more.
With the latest waypoint experience, there are two main ways to view them in AllTrails: Community Waypoints and Your Waypoints.
What are Community Waypoints?
Community Waypoints are public waypoints that appear on the map for other members to discover. These are intended to help with planning and on-trail discovery for things like overnight spots, water sources, navigation markers, landmarks, and event markers.
Community Waypoints are view-only for anyone other than the person who created them.
How to access Community Waypoints
Open any map in AllTrails
Open the map layer menu
Go to Extras
Turn on the Community Waypoints toggle
If you'd like, use the category filters below the toggle to narrow what you see on the map
Community Waypoints are off by default.
What are Your Waypoints?
Your Waypoints are your own saved waypoints. The Your Waypoints layer shows the waypoints you have marked as global so you can view them across maps.
Map-specific waypoints work a little differently: they always appear on the map where they were added, and they do not appear on other maps.
How to access Your Waypoints
Open any map in AllTrails
Open the map layer menu
Go to Extras
Use the Your Waypoints toggle to show or hide your global waypoints
Your Waypoints are on by default.
How to add a waypoint to a route or custom map
Adding waypoints to a custom route can be done by following the steps outlined here: Adding waypoints to a custom route. You can add waypoints to an activity when you're using the mobile app to navigate. This article has more information about adding waypoints while navigating.
Privacy options for waypoints
Each community waypoint has its own individual privacy setting, which gives you control over whether that waypoint can be visible more broadly.
If you change a public waypoint to private, or delete it, it will stop appearing in the Community Waypoints layer for other members.
When adding waypoints, members may also see two different controls:
A setting that keeps a waypoint private to the specific route or map it was added to. If it is private to that route, it will not appear across other maps in Your Waypoints.
A setting that makes a waypoint available to potentially be included in Community Waypoints. This does not guarantee it will appear in the community layer, but it can be considered for inclusion if it meets server-side criteria.
For historical waypoints, the default privacy is based on where the waypoint was originally added:
Waypoints attached to a public map or route default to public
Waypoints attached to a private map or route default to private
Additional notes
Tapping a Community Waypoint opens its details, including its title, description, category, and coordinates.
On a map, the waypoint list shows all waypoints added from that map, including both global and map-specific waypoints.