Stay connected where the signal ends.
YardTrail keeps your hiking Group together — live location, chat, and SOS over a phone-to-phone Mesh. No cell service or internet needed — and the little that reaches the cloud stays encrypted and is never sold.
- bars of signal needed
- 0
- of features work offline
- 100%
- map for your whole group
- LIVE
Your Group is the network.
Create a Group at the trailhead. Peers join with a code and are authenticated before they're trusted.
Phones link into a Bluetooth Mesh. Every Member is a Relay, so range grows with each Peer between you.
Location, chat, and SOS flow across the Group for the whole Active Hike — with zero bars of service.
Messages hop device to device over Bluetooth. If one Peer can reach another, the whole Group is connected.
Every position is stamped recent, stale, or lost — you always know how current a Member's dot is.
Hold to arm — deliberate by design. An SOS broadcast reaches every Peer the Mesh can touch, no accidental alarms.
One glance shows who needs attention first: lost, low battery, off-Trail. Sorted for the Leader, visible to all.
Download Trails before you go. Browse, drop Waypoints, and navigate your Breadcrumb path with no connection.
Group chat works offline. Out of range? Messages wait and Relay the moment a Peer reappears.
Built for the moment it matters.
When someone needs help, seconds and clarity count. SOS is a deliberate, hold-to-arm broadcast — it carries a Member's position and Breadcrumb trail to every reachable Peer, and keeps Relaying until the Leader acknowledges it.
Between emergencies, Triage keeps quiet watch: who's fresh, who's stale, who's drifting off-Trail — before it becomes a problem.
Your data stays with you.
YardTrail isn't a cloud service with an offline mode. It's local software — the network is your Group, and the server is your pocket.
Your location, messages, and Trails live on your device. The core experience works fully offline — no server round-trip required to keep your Group connected.
Your position goes to Members you chose, only while you choose. Never sold, never broadcast to strangers.
Group communication is encrypted, and every Peer is authenticated before it's trusted to Relay a single byte.
No ads, no data resale, no selling your movements. Your trail is yours.
Encrypted. Never sold.
Why YardTrail exists.
The best trails are the ones cell towers never reach — and that's exactly where group safety tools stop working. YardTrail started with a simple conviction: the phones already in your Group's pockets are enough to keep everyone connected.
Built in Jamaica — the name nods to home, back a yard — for real hikers, guides, and the people waiting for them to come back.
YardTrail is built by Kerron Hutton — a developer in Jamaica — on one conviction: the phones already in your Group's pockets are enough to keep everyone connected where the towers give out. It started as a prototype to keep a hiking group together with no signal.
Be first on the Trail.
Beta testing is coming soon — check back here when it opens for your device.
Say hello.
Questions, partnership ideas, or a trail story worth telling — we read everything.
Email us directlyhello@yardtrails.app