Off Road Adventure

Every think that you need a place to keep track of the trails you’ve run so you can share them with others?  Ever wonder where you could go to find trails in other locations that you want to explore?  Well wonder no more…

As Toyota makes a push to show the world its new 5th generation 4 Runner and FJ Cruiser are tough off road rigs, it has created a website dedicated to sharing trail information.  The web site is built to share GPS coordinates, directions, pictures and trail descriptions with others around the world.  The site, Trail Tracker allows you to set up a profile and than track the trails you have wheeled by either uploading your own trail or adding those shared by others to your favorites.

Toyota’s Trail Tracker has tremendous potential.  Today there are only a few dozen trails logged allowing almost everyone to upload a “first” for their favorite 4×4 trail.

And than there is “Aren’t you pointing out trails to close to the environmental groups?”.  I don’t believe so.  I actually feel this is a tool to help prevent trail closures.

• Groups that want to close trails, know where the trails are.  This is not going to show them any trail that is not already known or on their watch list
• The best way to prevent trail closure is to follow the ethics set out by Tread Lightly and demonstrate good stewardship of the land we wheel
• Toyota has a vested interest in trails remaining open to sell more off road vehicles.  They legitimatize the sport to some extent by showing their participation
• The site can show the strength of the wheeling community by exposing to non-wheelers the number of families that wheel and where we wheel responsibly

You can not change the minds of those against wheeling… We can continue to educate those who are not aware of all sides of the issue and this site can be one of the educating tool. In the end it is up to each of us to always put our best wheel forward when we are on the trail, in a public forum, or simply talking to our friends and neighbors about what we do with our rigs.

The Trail Tracker is still new and it is up to our wheeling community to make it into a resource we can all use.  What trail are you going to up load?

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