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Create a custom walk or hike in Maps on Mac

You can customize a walking route for hiking, exercising, or touring a city. You can also save the routes—along with any notes you add.

Note: Not all features are available in all countries or regions. See the macOS Feature Availability website.

A map of a customized hiking route, with buttons to reverse or complete the hike, total length in distance and time, and elevation gain and loss.
  1. Go to the Maps app on your Mac.

  2. Click Routes in the sidebar.

    If you don’t see the sidebar, click the Sidebar button.

  3. Click the Sidebar button near the bottom of the Routes card.

  4. To select a starting point on the map, click any road, path, trail, or other location accessible by walking.

  5. Click other points along your route.

  6. Do any of the following:

    • Switch the start and end points: Click .

    • Make the route out-and-back: Click .

    • Close the route with the shortest point back to the start: Click .

  7. Click Save Route, name the route or add notes (optional), then click Done.

To see your saved walks or hikes, click Routes in the sidebar.

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