Hiking route → poster
Your hike on the wall.
A long-distance trail, an Alpine trek or a multi-day hike: put your route on the wall, with the elevation profile and distance.
One ride. Endless looks.
Different rides, each in its own palette, map style and elevation gradient.
From trail to poster
Hiking is measured in days, not minutes
Hiking is rarely about speed. A trail is a number of days, a number of kilometres and a landscape that slowly changes. That makes the route itself the most interesting thing to show: the line across the map is exactly what happened.
Long-distance paths work well on a poster for that reason. The Pennine Way, a stretch of the Camino, a GR route through the Ardennes or a hut-to-hut trek in the Alps: all routes with a clear direction and an elevation profile that tells the days apart.
Route Frame handles both a recorded walk and a planned route from a route planner. If the trail consists of separate daily files, you merge them into one continuous route with the total distance and elevation gain. You get the print-ready PDF and decide what size to print it.
The source file, not one print
Not a single print, but the high-quality PDF file itself — print and frame it however you like.
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Endlessly your style
Switch palette, map style and stats for free until it's right.
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Print & frame yourself
At home on A4 or large at the print shop — today and again in five years.
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Multi-day treks
Merge stages into one route and put the whole trek on a single poster.
Coming soon: broader packages and extra sizes.
Hiking route → poster
From hiking route to poster: how it works
All you need is the GPX file of your hike — from Strava, Garmin, Komoot or your GPS.
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Download your GPX file
Grab your ride's GPX file from Strava, Garmin and others. One little file with your route — that's all you need to start.
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Upload your GPX
Drag the file onto Route Frame or click to pick it. We read distance, elevation and duration automatically.
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Make it yours in the editor
Tune it exactly how you like: pick a color palette, map style and background, and show the elevation profile and the stats you want. Endless tweaking — free.
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Simple, secure checkout
Pay once, no subscription. Check out with confidence on a secure payment page.
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Source file and invoice by email
Right after payment you get the high-quality, print-ready PDF source file with your invoice in your inbox. Print it at home or at a print shop — now or again in five years.
Print-ready vector PDF at A4. Exactly the source file you receive after payment.
No GPX file yet?
How to export your ride
Your poster starts with a GPX — the file that holds your route. Grab it from Strava or Garmin in half a minute.
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Open your activity on Strava
Go to strava.com (easiest on a computer) and open the activity you want on the poster.
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Open the actions menu
Click the three dots (⋯) at the top right of the activity.
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Choose ‘Export GPX’
Your GPX file downloads right away. Ready to upload.
Tip: exporting works best on the Strava website; the option is tucked away in the app. A manual activity without GPS can't be exported.
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Open your ride in Garmin Connect
Go to connect.garmin.com and open the ride under ‘Activities’.
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Open the top-right menu
Click the gear icon (⚙) or the three dots (⋯) above the activity.
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Choose ‘Export to GPX’
The GPX file downloads. Drop it in below.
Tip: this works on connect.garmin.com. In the Garmin Connect app the option is simply called ‘Export’.
Which hike fits on a poster?
Trails with a clear line and a story behind them.
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A long-distance path
A national trail or GR route as one continuous line.
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The Camino
The way to Santiago or a stage of it, with the elevation gain included.
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A mountain trek
A hut-to-hut route in the Alps or Pyrenees, where the profile shows the days.
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A multi-day at home
A long weekend trek, with every day merged into one route.
Hiking route → poster
Frequently asked questions
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How do I make a poster of my hiking route?
Upload the GPX file of your trek to Route Frame, pick a style and download the print-ready PDF.
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Does it work with Komoot, Strava and Garmin?
Yes. As long as you can export a GPX file it works — from Komoot, Strava, Garmin or your GPS.
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Can I put a multi-day trek on one poster?
Yes. Merge the separate stages into one route and turn it into a single poster.
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How long can a hiking route be?
Routes of hundreds of kilometres work too. On very long trails the line becomes finer; a calm map style keeps the route most readable.
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Do the daily stages show separately?
The merged route is drawn as one continuous line. If you want to distinguish the stages, naming the daily distance in the subtitle works well.
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Does it work with a planned route instead of a recorded track?
Yes. A planned route from Komoot, or a GPX of a long-distance path, works just as well as a recorded walk.
Ready to put your trek on the wall?
Upload your GPX and watch your poster appear in seconds.
Opens the editor with a real 151 km ride through South Limburg. Everything is editable, and you can still upload your own GPX afterwards.