Expanding and protecting open spaces for outdoor adventures.
Our Goal for 2023
By 2023, onX has a goal to help secure or improve public access to 150,000 acres, and to help restore, secure, or build 150 miles of trails. Since 2018, we’ve reached 135,000 acres of improved access and 133.3 miles of new or improved trails.
See if your favorite nonprofit should apply. Learn more about the guidelines below.
Browse the projects in the map below to learn about some of the projects we’ve supported.
We believe that everyone should have access to nature, and that when people feel connected to the land, they are more likely to protect it. Publicly accessible land plays a critical role in equalizing everyone’s access to outdoor recreation, and that’s why we’ve made a commitment to help protect public access to the outdoor recreation that exists, and advocate for more, for everyone.
Stories about the people, programs, and partnerships working hard to secure and preserve outdoor recreation.
Access Initiatives
onX’s latest report reveals that while most of us see the importance in stewardship, there’s a gap between the increasing number of outdoor enthusiasts and the percentage of those who give back to the lands that fuel their activities.
Access Initiatives
The onX Access and Stewardship program believes when people feel connected to the land, they are more likely to protect it. See our team’s achievements and wins
Access Initiatives
onX Hunt, along with partner Final Rise, recently helped raise $2 million at the company’s “40X” event at the 2023 Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Minneapolis, thanks to matching funds that multiplied the organizations’ $50,000 donation by 40X.
Access Initiatives
onX Hunt will host a “40X” event at this year’s Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic to celebrate Pheasants Forever’s 40th anniversary and to raise funds and awareness for upland hunting land access and habitat.
Access Initiatives
onX Offroad helped fund a recent cleanup event in Bullhead City, Az, that removed 4,220 pounds of trash from our public lands. See our work with Tread Lightly!
Access Initiatives
The SCA began as an idea by 24-year-old Elizabeth (Liz) Putnam at Vassar College. The paramount problem of the time, circa 1950’s, was that the national park system was under threat of being loved to death. Sound familiar?
No matter if you’re just discovering public lands, or have spent your entire life enjoying them, join onX in giving back to our shared ground.
Learn more about the challenges and solutions of securing access and stewarding our public lands.
At onX we believe that everyone should have access to nature, but we also realize that increased recreation means additional pressure on our public lands. And while most of us see the importance in stewardship, there’s a gap between the increasing number of outdoor enthusiasts and the percentage of those who give back to the lands that fuel their activities. Read the report to learn how we can encourage more outdoor stewardship and help preserve our access to the outdoors for the future.
We wanted to get the hard facts on corner-crossing, so we dove into the data. Read the report to learn how much land is involved, the concerns of affected property owners, and what can be done to address this complicated issue.
You may have public land at your fingertips you didn’t know about. Twenty states have state trust land (a.k.a. school land), and every one of those states has different access and activity rules, so we made it easy to look up which states allow hunting, off-roading, and backcountry activities so you can spend more time outside and less time on the internet.
We worked with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership to quantify the number of acres of public land that are landlocked, and therefore inaccessible to the public, and shared this information with land management agencies and policy makers.
We utilize the data that goes into our maps to quantify access challenges and back up proposed solutions. Then we share the results with land managers, policy-makers, and the public.
We collaborate directly with land management agencies, land trusts, and conservation nonprofits to understand the challenges they are solving, and provide them with data analyses and support.
We devote a portion of our sales to projects that will improve public access, create new hunting and recreation opportunities, and rehabilitate open spaces that have been over-loved.