Limited Beta
✦ Purpose-built for outdoor adventure storytelling

Beautiful journals
for your greatest
adventures

Trail Tales is a platform for the trips that matter. Pair your GPX tracks with maps, photos, and the stories behind them — all in a clean, distraction-free space that puts your adventure first.

Open for sign-ups now! Limited beta — we're onboarding a small group of storytellers. Sign up to secure your spot.
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Everything you need to tell your story

Not a feed. Not a tracker. A thoughtfully designed space for the trips that matter.

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Interactive Maps

Your route comes alive with interactive maps, elevation profiles, and multi-layer track switching. OpenStreetMap tiles with Cycle or Topo layers.

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Rich Photo Galleries

Upload your adventure photos — they're automatically grouped by time and displayed in a clean, responsive gallery with lightbox viewing.

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Curated Storytelling

A full WYSIWYG editor lets you craft the narrative around each trip. Publish multi-day epics with per-day breakdowns and stats.

See it in action

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Lake District Weekend

Multi-day bikepacking loop through the Lakes with interactive map and photo diary.

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Golfie Everest

22 laps, 8,848 m of climbing — one rider's insane Everest vert challenge on the Glentress trails.

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Highland Trail 550

550-mile bikepacking race across the Scottish Highlands with GPS tracking and stage summaries.

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How it works

Upload your recording, add your photos, write your story — done.

Upload your GPX or FIT file

From your bike computer, watch, or phone. We parse the track, compute stats, and render an interactive map.

Add photos and your story

Photos are auto-grouped by time and placed in embedded galleries, ready for you to edit and reorganise as you like. Write your narrative in our embedded editor — it's your voice, your adventure.

Publish and share

Your trip becomes a beautiful story page rendered in a customisable theme. Share it with friends or keep it as your personal journal. Then head out on the next adventure!

Start your Trail Tales

The best adventures deserve to be remembered. Start yours here.

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