What Will Visitors Actually See Once My Trail Route Is Published?

Understanding the front-end experience your Trail Points and content feed into

What appears on the published Trail Route?

Once your Trail Route is live, visitors will see three main things:

A step-by-step trail guide, built directly from the Trail Points you've added

An interactive map, showing the full route from start to end

A trail info panel, displaying key details — like distance and duration — at a glance

Why does this matter when I'm building the trail?

Because the Trail Points aren't just data entry — they directly become the guide a visitor follows on the day. Every Point Title, Description, and Image you add feeds straight into that step-by-step guide, so the quality and colour you put into each point is exactly what a visitor experiences when they're standing on the route with their phone in hand.

Similarly, the Duration and Trail Distance fields you fill in on the Content tab are what populates the trail info panel — so it's worth double-checking these are accurate rather than an estimate, since this is often the first thing a visitor checks before deciding a trail fits their day.

💡 Top Tip: Once you've published a Trail Route, view it as a visitor would — ideally on a phone, since that's how most people will use it on the day. If a Trail Point description only makes sense with local knowledge you already have, it's worth a rewrite before you consider the trail finished.