OnX is a pioneer in the digital mapping space. Hunters, anglers, offroaders, and hikers use this technology to mark important points and to navigate the wilderness. Digital mapping is also a tool that, when wielded right, can help protect land, open access, and improve the outdoor spaces we live for. That’s the heart of the 2025 OnX Impact Report. It is a look at how OnX’s access and stewardship programs moved the needle for America’s public landscapes and outdoor community over the last year.
Here’s the core of the report, distilled for hunters, anglers, off-roaders, and wilderness seekers.
Access and Stewardship Program
The impact report combines all the numbers in one place. It is a cumulative look at how the overarching Access and Stewardship Program makes a difference. The program has three anxchoring pillars: Philanthropy and Giving, Education and Inspiration, and Advocacy and Action. Everything that the program focuses on falls under one of those three categories.
“This past year, we leaned into advocacy more than ever to address the real-world challenges that threatened the places that matter deeply to us and our customers,” OnX CEO Laura Orvidas said in the report. “On the face of public land sell-offs, we leveraged our data and our maps to simplify complex topics, and rallied our partners and our broader community to take action. We learned that protecting the places we love requires intention, tenacity, and unity.”
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Adventure Forever
OnX has focused its philanthropy on work that expands access, restores landscapes, and strengthens stewardship nationwide. This year, the company supported efforts across diverse regions and recreation types. Some projects included building and repairing trails, securing access routes, restoring degraded habitat, and mobilizing volunteers on the ground. By investing in trusted community leaders and land advocates, we translate support into lasting outcomes that keep lands open, resilient, and accessible for people and wildlife
“We also continued to grow our Adventure Forever Grant Program, inviting communities across the country to volunteer alongside us and our partners who help multiply our impact,” Orvidas said. “For instance, when dozens of volunteers rebuilt retaining walls along a North Carolina trail ravaged by Hurricane Helene, they not only repaired a vital corridor of access, they also strengthened their bond with one another, deepened their connection to the land, and created new stories grounded in shared purpose.”
OnX’s Adventure Forever Grant Program is available to land trusts, conservation and stewardship organizations, park foundations, state agencies, tribal and local governments, trail associations, recreation clubs, and community nonprofits. All applicants must be based in the United States.
Trail Revival Project
In 2025, onX partnered with Toyota to host a series of Trail Revival Projects across the country. This grassroots stewardship type program saught to proactively address issues associated with trail degradation caused by overuse. The program created opportunities for volunteers to partipate in stewardship and trail work. In one year, the program completed 14 Trail Revival Projects, hosted 400+ volunteers, impacted 30+ trails in 13 states, and logged thousands of hours of volunteer work.
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Projects included clearing storm-damaged trails in Michigan, brushing out alpine roads in Montana, digging drainage and removing downfall in Washington, and much more. OnX and Toyota seek to expand the Trail Revival Project this year. Local groups can apply to host a workday event on the OnX website.
Advocacy
In 2025, as threats to public lands intensified, funding tightened, and conversations about access grew more
complex, the onX team leaned on data and solutions, attempting to use their geospatial technology to inform and educate stakeholders. This included 21 meetings with congressional offices and lobbying for legislation that affects the OnX user base.
OnX, in partnership with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership unveiled a map of all parcels already identified for potential sale in BLM Resource Management Plans.
In addition, OnX sponsored the production of Inaccessible, a film that explored land access issues, following three mountain athletes in a search for menaing. The film saught to connect the outdoor community around the common
cause of public land advocacy and stewardship.
