Topographic Map App for Hunters
Topo maps show terrain features and elevation changes via contour lines to help you plan and navigate your hunts.
Hunting Topo Maps
Hunting topo maps serve as your blueprint for reading the lay of the land. Contour lines reveal terrain features, such as drainages, ridges, canyons, saddles, draws, spurs, and cliffs, so you can get into more wild game.
Topo Maps Breakdown
Plan Better Routes
Topo maps help you understand how strenuous a route might be and allow you to choose a path that suits your purpose, whether that’s gentle slopes for a packout or terrain that can keep you concealed on a stalk.
Locate Water Sources
With water indicated in a vivid blue to stand out against the map, locating hard-to-find water sources like springs, creeks, and small ponds is easy.
Intercept More Game
How animals move across the landscape is made much less mysterious when you identify terrain features like funnels and pinch points that determine their routes of travel. Put yourself in the right spot at the right time with the invaluable information topo maps contain.
Identify Optimal Vantage Points
Scan your topo map for sets of circles that indicate ideal glassing knobs and other high points that provide you with the big views you need to identify game and plan your stalks.
The level of detail the onX Hunt topo map provides lets me confidently chart my path, whether I’m heading up the mountain to a glassing spot or coming down in the dark heavy after cutting a tag. There’s no guessing involved—onX Hunt topo maps give me the precision I need to stay on track and make the most of every hunt.
– Eric Chesser, HUSHIN
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Topo Maps App
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Frequently Asked Questions
Topo maps, short for topographic maps, show changes in elevation and terrain features using contour lines. Hunters use these maps to understand how land slopes, identify ridges, valleys, and funnels, and plan access routes based on terrain.
Topographic maps help hunters locate natural travel corridors, bedding areas, and terrain pinch points. Understanding elevation and slope changes improves stand placement and helps predict how game moves across the landscape.
The onX Hunt App allows you to download Offline Maps to your device for use outside the cell network. With your Offline Map downloaded, you can still access the topographic map, satellite maps, and hybrid maps.
Yes, onX Hunt lets you download maps to your device so you can access topographic, satellite, and hybrid basemaps even when you are outside cell coverage.
Benches, fingers, bowls, basins, and wallows tend to hold more elk than other terrain features. onX Hunt’s Topo and Hybrid Basemaps can be your first step to locating timbered-up elk.
A saddle appears on a topo map where contour lines form an hourglass shape with rising contour lines on each side, indicating a low point between two higher elevations.
Index Lines are the thickest lines and are labeled with an elevation above sea level, while thinner Intermediate Lines appear between them. Supplementary Lines indicate flatter terrain and provide additional detail where elevation changes are minimal.
Topo maps help you assess how strenuous a route might be so you can choose a path suited to your purpose, whether that means gentle slopes for a packout or concealed terrain for a stalk.
Water sources like springs, creeks, and small ponds are displayed in vivid blue on onX Hunt topo maps, making it easy to spot hard-to-find water in the field.
You can unlock topo maps along with all Premium onX Hunt features free for 7 days by creating an account at onxmaps.com.
