Merlin Maps

Planning Hub

Start your adventure here with our suite of planning tools.

Every great expedition has to start somewhere – and our planning hub brings together the perfect suite of tools for you to begin your planning! Explore our routes, saved places or deep-dives on topics, or plan your own adventures with our free GPX planner!

GPX Planner

Our free GPX planner.

Place Planner

Save and share places and waypoints.

Topics & Deep Dives

Masterclasses on a specific route or area, curated by our experts:

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Recent Routes

Some of our most recently-uploaded routes:

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Collections

Relevant routes and places – on one, convenient map.

Showing only top-level collections. See below for all of them!

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Segment Creator

If you’re planning a hike across several sections or days, you can use our segment creator to divide one route up simply and efficiently. Open or create the route, then click the ‘create segments’ button on the route page.