Creating an Outing

Outings let your organization publish curated routes with optional stops for walking tours, hikes, rides, running routes, and other visitor experiences.

Planning

Before you begin, gather the visitor-facing description and photo you want to use. You can draw the route in Manager or upload a GPX or GeoJSON file. You can also prepare a list of Points of Interest to feature as stops.

Create Your Outing

1. Open Locations > Outings from the sidebar.
2. Select New Outing.
3. Add a name and the essential visitor information available to you, such as a description, featured image, route type, and difficulty.
4. Select Continue to Route. Manager creates the outing as a draft and opens its Route page. You can add activities, access information, and other details from the outing's Info tab.

Building the Route

The map opens to the saved route when one exists. Otherwise, it uses the active organization's extent before community or approximate-location fallbacks.

1. Use map search to find an address or place and zoom to it. After selecting an address, choose Add Address to Route to add it as a route point.
2. Select Add Vertices to the Route Line, then select points on the map to draw the route.
3. Use Edit the Route Line to move or remove existing vertices.
4. Select Upload Route File to read a GPX or GeoJSON line. Review the orange preview, choose a route when the file contains multiple lines, then select Apply Imported Route. Canceling or closing the preview keeps the current route.
5. Select Save on the map before leaving the page. During initial creation, you can instead select Save Draft and Exit to save route and marker changes before returning to the Outings list. Manager warns you if you try to leave with unsaved route or marker changes.

Before drawing, review the routing summary above the Stops list. Standard routing follows trails and roads visible on the map and works offline. Select Edit to change the Activity or choose Valhalla (Experimental), which can follow paths from a broader routing graph. Standard remains selected until you choose Valhalla and acknowledge the experimental-routing notice.

While drawing, snapping places selected points on nearby trails or roads and pathfinding follows connected paths between them. If Manager cannot find a connected path, it leaves the route unchanged and offers explicit recovery choices. Use a straight segment only when you intentionally want a direct connection.

Review every generated route before publishing. Valhalla is still being validated, and saved outings currently retain the final route line rather than its routing source and graph history.

After saving a route, open the Info tab and find Suggested Areas below Related Areas. Review and add suggestions individually. Manager never adds or removes Related Areas automatically, and suggestion loading does not affect the saved route.

Add Stops

Stops add useful on-the-ground context to a route. With no route-editing tool selected, select an existing Point of Interest or a location on the map. You can also select Create from Lat/Lng.

An attached Point of Interest supplies its existing name, description, image, and location unless you add an outing-specific override. Unattached stops require their own name. Use the Stops list to edit, delete, or reorder stops. You can move an unattached stop by entering new coordinates in Edit Stop instead of dragging its marker.

Publish Your Outing

1. During initial creation, open the Review tab.
2. Confirm that the required outing information and saved route are ready. Stops and Related Areas are recommended but optional.
3. Return to the Info tab if you want to review Suggested Areas or change existing Related Areas.
4. Use the visibility control to change the outing from Draft to Published.

Saving a route does not publish the outing. An outing must have a saved route line before Manager allows it to be published.

The Review tab is part of the initial Draft-to-Published workflow. After you publish the outing, use the standard Info and Route tabs and the visibility control in the outing header for future changes.