# Trail Sentinel

> Trail Sentinel is a trail maintenance management platform built for trail networks, outdoor centers, ski resorts and sport clubs. It combines an interactive map (web) with a field-ready mobile app (iOS and Android) so crews can create geolocated tasks, document structures, run inspections, track time and coordinate work — even offline. Used by organizations in Canada, the United States and Europe.

The site is bilingual (English and French). Canonical URLs are `https://trail-sentinel.com/en/...` and `https://trail-sentinel.com/fr/...`. The same content exists in both languages; pick the locale that matches your audience.

## Product

- [Pricing](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/pricing): Three plans — Community (free, for small/volunteer organizations), Standard, and Pro. Eligibility for the Community plan is reviewed annually.
- [Comparison](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/comparison): How Trail Sentinel compares to the status quo — spreadsheets, paper notes and group chats — for trail maintenance management.
- [Customers](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/customers): Named trail organizations using Trail Sentinel in Canada, the United States and Europe, with their testimonials in full.
- [About Trail Sentinel](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/about): Company background, team, and product philosophy.
- [Request a demo](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/demo): Walkthrough with the team.
- [Contact](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/contact): Sales and support contact form.

## Features

- [All features](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features): Index of every feature page below, grouped by operations, team and impact.
- [Trail mapping](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/trail-mapping): Map your whole trail network on one interactive map; every task and structure geolocated, online and offline.
- [Tasks](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/tasks): Create, assign and track maintenance tasks with photos, priorities and full lifecycle.
- [Projects](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/projects): Group tasks into projects to plan and report on larger work.
- [Structures](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/structures): Inventory of bridges, signs and built infrastructure with geolocation and history.
- [Insights](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/insights): Analytics on workload, time spent and trail condition.
- [Field work](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/field-work): Offline mode — create tasks, photos and inspections without coverage; auto-syncs on return.
- [Discussions](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/discussions): In-context discussions on tasks and structures.
- [Team](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/team): Member management, permissions, and time tracking.
- [Trail conditions](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/trail-conditions): Track and communicate trail status across the network.
- [Checklists](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/features/checklists): Run the same set of checks across every trail — season opening, periodic inspection, closing — from a reusable template, with offline ticking in the field.

## Documentation

- [Documentation](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs): Step-by-step guides for using Trail Sentinel on web and mobile. Every page is also available as raw markdown by appending `.md` to its URL.

### In the field

- [Report a problem from the map](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/report-a-problem-from-the-map): Create a geolocated task in seconds from the terrain map, even without coverage. (mobile)
- [Annotating on the map: showing the extent, not just the spot](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/annotate-on-the-map): Add zones, lines and photo points to a task's map so people see the size of the job before they head out. (web, mobile)
- [Annotating a photo: circle it, point at it, explain it](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/annotate-a-photo): Draw freehand on a photo before attaching it to a task, a structure or a message. (mobile)
- [Working off the network: how Sentinel handles no signal](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/work-offline): What you can read and do without a connection, how the sync queue restarts on its own, and what happens when there's a conflict. (mobile)
- [Reading a task on mobile: the map and the list](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/tasks-on-mobile): What a marker on the map tells you, what a card in the list tells you, and how the list is ordered. (mobile)

### Run the work

- [The Tasks section: map, kanban, folders](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-tasks): The two view modes, the list groupings, folders, and the button that projects a group onto the map. (web)
- [Create a task from a photo](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/create-a-task-from-a-photo): Upload a photo taken in the field — Sentinel reads its GPS location and suggests the nearby trails. (web)
- [Filter tasks in depth](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/use-advanced-filters): Combine status, priority, type, trail, person and date to isolate exactly the tasks you care about. (web, mobile)
- [Projects: grouping tasks that belong together](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/use-projects): A project gathers tasks, computes its own progress, and is tracked on a kanban, on the map, or in statistics. (web, mobile)
- [The dashboard: reading the network's state in thirty seconds](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/read-the-dashboard): Five indicators, one date range, and exactly what each number means. (web)

### Checklists

- [Checklists: repeating the same checks across the network](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/use-checklists): Season opening, periodic inspection, closing — run the same list of checks across several trails and follow progress at a glance. (web, mobile)

### Structures

- [Structures and their inspection reports](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/inspect-structures): List your assets, inspect them, and turn every inspection into a risk rating, a return date and a PDF. (web, mobile)

### Communicate

- [Trail conditions: telling the public what's open](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/publish-trail-conditions): Create a condition report, keep it current from the field, and embed it on your website with the widget. (web, mobile)
- [Conversations: talking about a task, inside the task](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/use-discussions): One thread per task, structure, project or checklist. Mentions, replies, reactions, photos — and exactly who gets notified. (web, mobile)
- [Notification settings: choosing what interrupts you](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/notification-settings): Three channels, one setting per kind of event, and the full matrix of what Sentinel can send you. (web, mobile)

### Configure

- [Trails: the backbone of your place](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-trails): Import your GPX tracks, sort them by activity and difficulty. Almost everything else in Sentinel hangs off them. (web)
- [Activities: keeping your networks apart](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-activities): Biking, hiking, cross-country skiing — each activity has its own trails, tasks and types. Here's how to turn them on and switch between them. (web, mobile)
- [Difficulties: the colour of your trails](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-trail-difficulties): Difficulty levels give trails their symbol and their colour on every map. Here's how to set them, reorder them, and what deleting one breaks. (web, mobile)
- [Task types: the vocabulary of your maintenance](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-task-types): The nine predefined types, creating custom ones, picking icons, and why activities decide what shows up. (web, mobile)
- [Structure types: inspection questionnaires and numbering](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/manage-structure-types): Define your structure types, write the questionnaire that scores them, set automatic rescheduling and the PV-001, PV-002 numbering. (web, mobile)

### Team and permissions

- [Invite a member and give them the right access](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/invite-and-manage-members): The Members section is your team. Invite by email, pick the role, and decide which activities the person can reach. (web)
- [Groups: assigning work to a crew rather than a person](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/use-groups): Gather members under a name and a colour, then assign a task to the group instead of naming someone. (web)
- [Roles: deciding what each person can do](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/understand-roles): A role bundles 20 interlinked permissions. Here's how to read one at a glance, change it without breaking something else, and avoid locking yourself out. (web)
- [Planning: splitting the work person by person](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs/plan-member-work): A kanban per member and per group to assign tasks in one gesture, and "My planning" to see your own. (web, mobile)

## Resources

- [Documentation](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/docs): How-to guides for every part of the product, web and mobile.
- [FAQ](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/faq): Common questions about features, pricing eligibility, mobile app and data handling.
- [Community](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/community): Information about the free Community plan for small organizations.
- [Mobile app — App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sentinel-trail/id6468912038)
- [Mobile app — Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.macxsoftware.sentinel)

## Français

- [Index en français](https://trail-sentinel.com/fr/llms.txt): Same index in French, with the French documentation. All content listed above exists identically under `/fr/`.

## Optional

- [Full text dump](https://trail-sentinel.com/llms-full.txt): All English content (homepage, features, pricing, documentation, FAQ, release notes) concatenated as a single markdown file for full-context LLM ingestion.
- [Privacy policy](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/privacy)
- [Release notes — latest](https://trail-sentinel.com/en/release/2.8.0)