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
The Western Rivers Conservancy, with financial assistance from onX’s grant program, secured access to a 4,054-acre parcel known as McDonald’s Ferry Ranch. The parcel has served as “The Last Takeout” for rafters, a productive landscape for chasing chukar, and taking in some moments of Oregon Trail history.
Access Initiatives
onX released its annual access report, Private Land, Public Access, analyzing more than 40 voluntary public access programs across 27 US states, revealing a combined 30 million acres of hunting opportunity.
Access Initiatives
In Maine, it’s traditional that a single parcel can serve many uses—from hunting and fishing to biking and ripping around on ATVs or sleds. Depending on the season, you’re likely to bump shoulders with a hiker wearing blaze orange or a GSP wearing a bell while on point waiting for the flush.
Access Initiatives
onX will host a live virtual event on June 21, 2023 at 6 p.m. MDT called “A Hunter, a Backcountry Skier, and an Off-roader Walked Into a Bar.”
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
Learn more about the challenges and solutions of securing access and stewarding our public lands.
Sixty percent of the land in the U.S. is privately owned, but millions of acres of private land around the country are open to hunters each year—all thanks to state programs and landowners who prioritize conservation and public access. Read our report to learn how much land is opened each year and what it takes for these programs to be successful.
Wherever you are on your stewardship journey, it’s each action that makes the difference. While we all navigate the landscape of highly pressured lands, we celebrate moments of stewardship—big or small. Teach a youngster in your life through the lens of our little Stuart the Steward, whose mission is to awaken the steward in all of us, or share a new skill with someone who’s learning a sport. We all have our own path toward stewardship, but moving forward is movement enough.
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.
The team at onX Offroad partnered up with the Public Lands Stewards of Bend to create this step-by-step guide to a safe, organized, and successful day. We hope this takes the wondering out of planning, so you can focus on getting it done.
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.
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.
