Mawson Trail Guide

Mawson Trail Guide

Find the Fun Pty Ltd · 4.6 ★ · A$26.99

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Description

A comprehensive Mawson Trail guidebook on a phone, full of information, and with excellent maps and navigation. It's built by Australians who have ridden the trail and LOVE bike packing!

This guide works 100% without needing mobile phone reception or Internet access. The offline maps are very detailed, show the Mawson Trail, show where you are via GPS, have contour lines, and are marked up with huts you can stay in, camping areas, towns, alternative accommodation and many points of interest. As you ride along the trail, the App shows you how far you are from places like huts and towns, and has an interactive elevation graph so you can see what hills are between you and places.

The App has beautiful photos to inspire you, detailed descriptions of each trail section, advice on how to prepare for your trip, what gear to bring, what bike to ride and suitable food. It's a complete "how to do the trail" guide. It has many other features and information, as described below.

FEATURES:
- Very detailed offline maps. They ALWAYS work, even when mobile phone coverage and Internet are not available.
- The map is tuned to look great on a small phone screen and show details that a cyclist in remote areas needs. You'll see details such as minor tracks and trails at zoom levels where most other maps hide them. So zoom out and tracks don't disappear from your map! This makes getting back to the trail easy if you loose it. And finding roads to bypass muddy sections becomes trivial. Great for your safety and easier for you to navigate, even with a tiny phone screen.
- Uses GPS to show your location on the map.
- The map shows contour lines when you zoom in.
- The map has extra markers for huts, towns, camping areas, places where you can get food, attractions, and other points of interest.
- Tap places on the map and be shown your distance from them along the track. See how far away that town is!
- An elevation graph that you can zoom-and-swipe to see all the hills and valleys along the trail.
- The elevation graph shows your location and markers for towns other places. Do I have to ride up any big hills to get to that town?
- Tap hut, town, camping and other markers on the map to get detailed information and photographs for those places.
- Has descriptions and pictures of each section of the Trail.
- Has a trail overview, and information about the huts, drinking water, safety, weather and history of places.
- Detailed advice and information on how to train for a multi-day trip, choosing a bike, when to ride, what gear you need and suitable food.
- Shows bike shops and other places that can supply bike parts or fix problems.
- Describes how to get and from endpoints of the Mawson Trail.
- No mobile phone coverage or internet is needed for the App to work. Put your phone in Airplane Mode to save battery power and continue to use the App (your phone's GPS will still work in Airplane Mode).
- The App turns off GPS when the screen is turned off, so will not use phone power when you are not using it.
- The guide has loads of beautiful photographs of the Trail to inspire you!

You will never get lost because the maps always work and show you where you are, even when you stray from the Trail. The great detail on the maps make it easy to follow bush tracks and paths to get back to the Trail.

This App was built by a small Australian software company. We've ridden the Trail and have extensive bike packing experience. We're confident our Mawson Trail Guide App will make your trip easier to plan, safer and more fun.

Developer

What's New

Version 8 (3.0.0) · 7 Mar 2026

Support for showing distances between map markers. Updated maps.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.6

15 ratings

N/A downloads

Recent Reviews

Gaggawoowie

App Store

Essential and invaluable

You’d be mad to ride the Mawson without the app. It contains all the information you need about trail conditions, accommodation options, towns and food, along with the accurate map showing your location.

31 Jan 2025

jim waterhouse

Google Play

Great app to give confirmation of location on the trail. It would be great if the map also displayed kilometre markings from start or finish at regular say 5km intervals. This would help trip planning. I would recommend anybody doing the Mawson trail to use the app.

29 Sept 2023

Yack rider

App Store

Mawson trail app

Just finished the Mawson trail using the app as our only guide apart from town maps we picked up along the way .I always felt safe knowing I would not get lost using this app . Also great information along the way . I really liked knowing the history of what land we were on before arriving there. Great elevation profiles and places of interest and accom options . Good to see the Heyson huts available for use along the way as well. When using aeroplane mode meant my phone battery lasted so much longer .

10 Sept 2023

Paulandjoseph

App Store

Helpful

I am in the early stages of planning my Mawson Trail ride and am finding this app so helpful. It has detailed information about all the towns on the route, the terrain, sights to see, how to get to and from the start/ end points of the route and most importantly a detailed much showing the route with live location services that can be used offline.

17 July 2023

adventureboy101

App Store

They don’t have southbound!

The app allows you to have southbound and northbound BUT they show the exact same thing. If you are going southbound the app is an absolute waste of money wouldn’t recommend!

10 Apr 2023

Kh2011tdf

App Store

Don’t ride the Mawson without this app

The App was an excellent guide for riding the Mawson. All the mapping and information that you need. It’s all I used along with Google to do a solo trip. Great product.

28 Mar 2023

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