Build your route, set the gear list, plan the food, and share it all with the people coming with you. One trip page instead of a dozen text threads.
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Start from an established trail — the John Muir Trail, a National Recreation Trail, or a loop near you — and choose your entry point, exit point, and campsites. The planner slices the route to your section and lays out the day-by-day itinerary: miles per day, where you camp, and how many days of food you're carrying.
Define what everyone needs individually — sleeping bag, headlamp, rain gear — and what the group shares: two stoves, three water filters, one first aid kit. An "Add the Essentials" shortcut covers the basics in one click.
Send invitations with the route, dates, and distance built in. Members accept with one click and land on the trip page, where they can see the itinerary, the gear list, and who else is coming. No accounts to chase down, no spreadsheet links to re-share.
Each member's pack list is checked against the trip's requirements automatically. You can see who's covered, who still needs a bear canister, and who hasn't responded — weeks before the trailhead, while there's still time to fix it.
A backpacking route planner with real trail data: campsites, water sources, resupply points, and mile markers. Your backpacking itinerary comes out as a day-by-day plan the whole group can read.
Split shared gear so nobody carries a duplicate stove and nobody forgets the water filter. Mark who's bringing shared items and who's covered by someone else's gear. Read the full guide to group gear planning.
Plan meals per day on trail with calorie counts and weight totals. Dietary needs — gluten-free, nut allergies, vegetarian — filter what gets suggested. Food weight rolls into each member's real pack weight.
Each trip has its own conversation space with pinned messages and polls, so decisions like "which trailhead?" don't get lost in group chat. Promote a co-organizer to split the work on bigger trips.
Hikeset is a group backpacking trip planner for anyone organizing a multi-day trip on trail: friends planning a weekend loop, hiking clubs and meetup groups coordinating a dozen people, scout leaders verifying safety gear for a troop, and outdoor programs managing borrowed gear across a roster of students.
If you're planning a solo trip, it works for that too — the route, itinerary, gear list, and meal planning are all there. The group coordination is just where it pulls ahead of a spreadsheet.
Yes — Hikeset is free for planning trips with your group. The free tier covers most trips; higher tiers are available for guides, scout leaders, and outdoor club organizers who need bigger rosters. See plans for details.
No. Hikeset runs in your browser on desktop and phone, so you can plan a backpacking trip online and everyone in your group can open the same trip page from an invitation link — no app install required.
Create the trip, then invite members by email. The invitation includes the route name, distance, and dates, and one click puts them on the trip page with the full itinerary, gear requirements, and member list. Changes show up for everyone — there's no stale copy floating around.
Yes — that's the core of it. You set quantities like "the group needs 2 stoves," members mark what they're bringing, and anyone relying on someone else's gear is marked as covered. The trip page shows exactly how gear is distributed across packs.
Mapping apps are built for finding trails and navigating them. Hikeset is built for the coordination in between: turning a route into a day-by-day itinerary, splitting gear across the group, planning food, and tracking whether everyone is actually ready before the trailhead.
Create a trip, build the route, set the gear list, and invite your group — free.
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