For iPhone & Apple Watch

Walk every path in Reston.

Most trail apps record the route you took. Reston Trails keeps track of the whole network: every pathway in town on one map, filled in as you walk, with a count of how much is left.

Coming soon to theApp Store Free · No account · Works offline

A map drawn from the app's data showing all 862 segments of Reston pathway, colored by type. — Reston Association Park trails W&OD & regional Other

76.5 miof pathway in the app

862path segments

12,322checkpoints, one every 10 m

418benches, piers, playgrounds & more

The map, with walked paths in green, the rest in rust orange, and pins for restrooms, fountains and Little Free Libraries — Walked paths turn green

The Progress tab with a completion ring and miles by kind of path — Progress in real miles

The Show on map sheet, with counts for benches, restrooms, water fountains and more — Choose which places to show

Tracing a missing path on the map near Lake Anne — Add paths the map missed

Features

Built for one town

Reston Trails covers Reston and nowhere else. That narrow focus is why it can hold every path in town, work with no signal, and give you a percentage you can trust.

A map that fills in

Paths you've walked turn green and the rest stay rust-orange. Walk half a path and half of it turns green. Nothing rounds up to a whole segment.

Progress in real miles

A completion ring shows how much of Reston you've walked, measured in distance. A 4,100 ft trail counts for more than a 17 ft connector. You can also see progress for each kind of path.

Where to walk next

The app finds the nearest path you haven't walked and tells you how far away it is and how long it is. Good for a short walk after dinner.

Add paths the map missed

County data misses some paths. If you know one, trace it on the map in My Paths and it becomes part of your network. Walks you already recorded that crossed it get credit right away.

Places along the way

Show benches, restrooms, water fountains, dog waste stations, Little Free Libraries, local coffee, ice cream, public art, piers and more on the map. There are 15 kinds of place, and you can turn each one on or off.

Private and offline

The whole trail network comes with the app, so it works deep in the woods with no signal. The app has no account, no server and no tracking. Your walks stay on your devices.

Apple Watch

Leave the phone at home

The watch app records on its own. Start a walk, run, hike or ride from your wrist and it counts toward the same map.

Saves real Outdoor Walk, Run, Hike and Cycling workouts to Apple Health, with the route.
A map near you that turns with you, showing which nearby paths you still need.
Pause and resume in the middle of a workout.
Syncs with your iPhone when they're back in range, and each device shows when the other one is recording.

How it counts

A percentage you can trust

Many of Reston's paths run right next to a road or right next to another path. A simple GPS app would give you credit for a path you only walked beside. Reston Trails checks more carefully:

Checkpoints every 10 meters
Each path is split into checkpoints spaced 10 m apart. Your percentage is the share of those checkpoints you've reached, measured by distance.
Direction has to match
A GPS reading near a checkpoint only counts when you were moving in the same direction as that path. Walking beside a path doesn't count as walking it.
Your walks are the record
Progress is always rebuilt from the walks you recorded. If one walk had bad GPS, delete it and the credit it gave goes away too.

What's in the network

Kind of path	Miles
Reston Association pathways	42.2
Fairfax County park trails	20.5
W&OD and regional trails	12.5
HOA, VDOT and easement paths	1.3
Every walkable path in Reston	76.5

About the town

Reston was planned for walking

Reston was planned from the start so people could walk from home to school, shops and the woods without crossing a busy road. Here are some things you'll pass on the way.

A town named for its founder

Robert E. Simon founded Reston in 1964, on his 50th birthday. The name comes from his initials, R.E.S., plus "ton." It was one of the first modern planned communities in the United States.

Lake Anne, where it began

Lake Anne Village Center was Reston's first village center. It's a waterfront plaza of mid-century modern buildings and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. A bronze statue of Bob Simon sits on a bench there, and you're welcome to sit next to him.

Four lakes, two named for naturalists

Reston has four man-made lakes: Anne, Thoreau, Audubon and Newport. Lake Thoreau is named for Henry David Thoreau and Lake Audubon for John James Audubon. The app includes 14 piers and docks on the lakes.

A railroad turned trail

The W&OD Trail follows the old Washington & Old Dominion Railroad bed. It crosses Reston on its 45-mile route between Arlington and Purcellville, and 12.5 miles of Reston's regional trail mileage in the app is the W&OD and trails like it.

Paths under the roads

Reston Association maintains 42 miles of paved pathway in the app. The paths run through every neighborhood and often pass under roads through tunnels, so you can walk a long way without waiting at a crosswalk.

Woods in the middle of town

Stream valleys like the Glade and Snakeden Branch run through the middle of the neighborhoods. Lake Fairfax Park and other county parkland add natural-surface trails, which make up 20.5 miles of the network.

118playgrounds 115benches 50picnic spots 15dog waste stations 14piers & docks 12public restrooms 10works of public art 9water fountains 8local coffee shops 6dog parks 6ice cream stops 4Little Free Libraries