There’s an app for the Sunshine Coast Trail

Works with no signal

The whole trail map is inside the app. Airplane mode the entire hike — nothing to download at a trailhead, and GPS that keeps working without a signal.

Matches the kilometre posts

The app uses the trail’s own numbered kilometre posts — km 90 in the app is the km 90 post on the ground. Anything it doesn’t know it shows as unknown, not a guess.

Water

Each source is marked permanent or seasonal, with the date it was last checked. Before a dry stretch, the app flags the last reliable water — in both directions.

Huts

Each hut shows whether it has water or is a dry camp, whether there’s a bear cache, and any closures. Pick one as tonight’s destination and you get the distance, water on the way, the climbing, and what time it gets dark.

Ways off the trail

15 crossings are marked as bailouts — the realistic ways off the trail. The map also shows every other road and logging-track crossing, but most are old logging tracks, and the app doesn’t claim a vehicle can reach one unless somebody has verified it.

The rest

A trip planner that lays out your nights — whole trail or any section, however many days you have · elevation profile you can scroll and tap · trip recording with GPX export · a trail feed for water, rides, lost & found and notices · a calendar of who’s at which hut · local shuttles, ferries and resupply, offline · kilometres or miles · a red night mode that won’t wreck your night vision at 3am.