Trails & Inspiration

How to use komoot Route Planner: A SportsShoes Guide

Want to discover more paths and trails in your local area?
Love to visit new places but don’t know where best to walk, run or cycle?
Want to share your adventures with others?
Or are you desperately searching for some inspiration and motivation to fuel your own adventures?

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If your answer is yes to any of the above, then fear not - we have the answer!
Learn how to explore the great outdoors now with SportsShoes and komoot.

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What is komoot?

For millions of people, komoot is the key to the great outdoors. From intrepid explorers and experienced off-roaders, to those who are just starting out on the trail, komoot allows everybody to find inspiration, plan routes, connect with the hiking community and ultimately live authentic outdoor experiences.

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SportsShoes x komoot

We've teamed up with komoot to provide you with top recommendations and detailed guides to some of the very best walks and hikes that the UK has to offer. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an elite athlete, a weekend walker or simply planning your first ever hike, your commitment and passion to be active is all that matters.

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What are the benefits of using komoot and joining the SportsShoes Community

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1. Finding Inspiration

Whether you’re searching for routes on unfamiliar territory, or simply wanting to explore new paths and trails in your local area, komoot is the perfect place to find handy advice and inspiration. Our dedicated team of outdoor experts have created a series of routes within the UK, with detailed descriptions, handy tips and GPX files to show you route profiles and visual maps. This information can be viewed on a desktop, a mobile device and even on a Garmin watch, so you can plan and record all your adventures.

Join our Sportsshoes x komoot community, you’ll never feel alone on the trail.

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2. The komoot map

The komoot map has been specifically designed to make your adventures better. Route planning is simple, so you can view all of the information at a glance and easily distinguish between the different types of features. Personally, I have found komoot to be extremely user-friendly, uncomplicated and really easy to use, especially when compared with other alternative mapping software applications such as OS and Viewranger.

Off-grid segments can also be useful when a road, path or trail is missing from the komoot database. It allows you to plan a route off the komoot grid, i.e. ignoring komoot's network of known roads or paths.

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3. Planning and Recording Tours, Collections and Highlights

komoot is the ultimate route planner, enabling you to plan whatever type of route you want to experience in seconds, whether it’s smooth asphalt for your road bike, singletracks for your mountain bike, peaceful paths for your hikes or solitary trails for your runs.

Here are the three main features of komoot explained;

• Tours are planned routes, each with easy-to-understand difficulty levels and characteristics designed to help you assess whether or not a Tour is suitable for your fitness and ability.

• Collections are a series of related tours that can be grouped or categorised together e.g. multi-stage sections that collectively make up an ultra-distance route.
  Please note: Personal collections can only be created by Premium account members (see below for more details).

• Highlights are the komoot community’s favourite places of interest, as recommended by those who know them best. Help inspire others by creating your own highlight and including your images with completed Tours.
  
  Click here to find a complete How To Guide on creating Tours, Collections and Highlights

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4. Garmin x komoot

Connect your Garmin watch with komoot to sync and share all of your planned adventures. It doesn’t matter what sport you use your Garmin device for - whether it’s road cycling, hiking, running or mountain biking - komoot will change the way you plan, track and experience activities outdoors, even after you’ve set off. Plus, it works even when you’re offline! Want to replan on-the-go? The komoot app allows you to fully adjust your Tour on the go. Just head to the app, replan on your smartphone and see the new route on your Garmin whenever you’re in the mood for a detour.

SHOP GARMIN DEVICES NOW

Download the komoot for Garmin app in the IQ Store

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5. Upgrading to komoot Premium. What are the benefits?

• Komoot is a free application, but you can upgrade your account to access Premium features – a subscription that will cost you £4.99 a month.
  Here are some of the features you can enjoy with a Premium account;
  

• Multi-day planner – For those that want to go further, you can enjoy the benefit of planning extended adventures from 2 days to multiple weeks.
  
  Click here to plan a multi-day Tour
  

• Create Customizable Collections - The creation and management of Personal Collections is only possible if you have a Premium subscription with komoot. They allow you to group, sort and collect your Tours, just the ones featured in your discover feed
  
  Click here to create a personalised collection
  

• Live Tracking – The safest way to travel is by using live tracking, so you can share your real-time location with friends and family. Let them see where and when you set off, your planned distance and estimated finish time, your remaining phone battery and your total elapsed time.
  
  Click here to discover more about live tracking
  

• On-Tour Weather – Prep like a pro with the komoot on-tour weather guide. You’ll know exactly what kind of clothing to wear, what kit to carry and how much fluid you’ll need to take depending on the conditions.
  
  Click here to find out more
  

• Sport-specific maps – These allow you to use the most relevant map for your chosen sport, whether it’s hiking, running or cycling. For example, National walking trails, like the Pennine Way, are highlighted as bold, purple routes. Click here to view the map legend.
  
  Click here to check out sport-specific maps.

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Check out our Trails and Inspirational category to discover the most amazing trails and hikes in the world, as recommended by our athletes, ambassadors and loyal customers.