Our gear guides are written region by region, because the desert asks different questions of your pack than the high country does. Each guide pairs the named trails of a bioregion with the gear that has actually earned its place there, and each one embeds the Trail Atlas zoomed to its landscape.
Live now
- The Colorado Plateau Trail Guide — red rock and canyon country, the Grand Canyon corridor to Sedona’s numbered trails
- Sonoran Desert Trails: Heat, Water, and Timing — the winter paradise around Phoenix and Tucson, and the water math that governs it
Publishing next
- The San Juan Mountains — trails and gear for the high country
- The Ponderosa Highlands — Flagstaff’s trail running paradise
- The Wasatch and Beyond — Utah’s vertical playground
- Northern New Mexico — Sangre de Cristo trails and high desert rambles
New guides publish weekly. Meanwhile, the Trail Atlas is open and growing beyond the West.