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🥾 Route Lab

🥾 Route Lab

Route Lab designs trail-running routes on Gatineau Park's real trail network — you don't draw them, it builds them.

  1. Set it up. Pick a start lot (or a whole region), a distance (or a time), and optional terrain — flat ↔ hilly. Tap Generate 3 routes.
  2. Pick one. You get 3 ranked loops — tap a card to see it on the map, its climb, and its surface mix. + Another adds one more; tap Generate again for 3 totally different ones.
  3. Take it with you. ⬇ GPX for your watch, 🔗 Share a link, ⇄ Rev to run it the other way.

More: switch to point-to-point (A→B), hill reps, or size to a time. Set your running pace in the account menu (top-right) so finish-time estimates are yours. After a run, 📝 Rate a route's trails to improve the map for everyone.

It's the planning step map apps (Gaia, AllTrails) and watch apps (Garmin, Strava) skip — specialized for trail running in one park it knows deeply. Trails from OpenStreetMap, routing by GraphHopper, elevation from SRTM. No subscription.

Good to know

  • Gatineau Park only — for now.
  • Distances are approximate (~±20%). Trail loops rarely hit an exact number; it gets close and always shows the real distance.
  • Natural trails first — it prefers in-park natural trail and avoids pavement or leaving the park unless a sector has no other way in.
  • Loops preferred — an out-and-back appears only where no loop fits your distance.
  • Difficulty is limited by the map data — the "Technical" steer is off for now (too few trail ratings). Help fix that by rating trails.

Full about, and how to improve the map →