British Columbia GPS Maps

British Columbia GPS Maps for outdoor adventures and backroad travel

Explore Vancouver Island, the Coast, the Interior, the Rockies and Northern BC with detailed GPS mapping for compatible Garmin devices. The 2027 edition combines updated roads with trails, paddling routes, access points, recreation sites and geographic features for navigation beyond cell coverage.

What’s new in the 2027 edition

• More than 13,000 km of newly added roads and improvements to approximately 80,000 road names
• More than 7,500 km of added or updated trails, paddling routes and motorized trails
• 770+ new trailheads and staging areas
• More than 3,000 new recreation and geographic features
• 650+ new parks, 250+ new access locations, 210+ new multi-use trails and nearly 150 new conservation sites
• Expanded fishing dock, water feature, ATV, snowmobile, boat launch, wildlife viewing and overland route data

Map features

• Province-wide coverage including Vancouver Island, Vancouver Coast and Mountains, Thompson Okanagan, Kootenay Rockies, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast and Northern BC
• Searchable roads, trails, recreation sites, geographic features and access points
• Fishing waters, parks, conservation sites, campgrounds, boat launches and backroad attractions
• Supplied on an 8 GB microSD card for compatible Garmin GPS devices

Point of Interest (POI)

Unique to the Backroad BC GPS Maps are our Custom or Backroad POI sets. Within BC we have over 265,000 searchable points including Oil and Gas LSD Grid Locations, PNG Grid Locations, Township Quarter Section Grid Locations, Compressor Stations, Gas Plants, other Resource Facilities and Backroad POI sets. Customers can search for Oil and Gas Resource Facility information by selecting Where To/Find > Cities and then by entering the full LSD Grid reference for Facilities near Fort St. John (ex: 6-28-85-18-W6), or by entering the full PNG Grid reference for Facilities elsewhere in the province (ex. D-83-I-94-J-10). Backroad POIs can be searched by selecting the Where To/Find > Extras and then Go! option, or read what each site offers through the More option. This added feature to our GPS Maps gives you the descriptions or write-ups of most recreation sites that have been geo-referenced from the popular Backroad Mapbook guidebook series.

British Columbia Custom POI Highlights 

• 265,000 searchable Oil and Gas LSD Grid locations, PNG Grid Locations
• 225+ BC Wildlife Management Units (WMU) for hunters
• Fishing Lakes and Rivers with over 3,500 locations with descriptions and fish species
• Close to 950 Boat Launch locations
• Close to 5,300+ Trails with front country and backcountry locations and descriptions
• ATV Trails with close to 500 trailhead locations and descriptions
• Snowmobile Trails with over 400 trailhead locations and descriptions
• Parks with over 3,000 National, Provincial and Regional Park locations and descriptions
• Recreation Areas with over 1,200 locations and descriptions
• Close to 1,200 Backcountry campsites
• Over 1,300 Campground and Picnic locations
• Paddling with over 580 paddling route access points descriptions and portage locations
• Wildlife Viewing with close to 1,000 locations and descriptions
• Over 370 Winter Recreation Sites and Downhill Ski Areas
• Over 2,100 City, Town and Community locations
• Over 900 Compressor Stations
• Close to 100 Gas Plants
• Over 13,000 Resource Facilities
• Over 60,000 searchable land and water geographic features
• Over 370 Backcountry Huts and Cabins

Backroad Extras

Backroad Extras are where you find all the POI information specific to our Backroad GPS Maps.

British Columbia Categories:

• Backroad Attractions
• ATV-OHV Trails
• Backcountry Camps
• Boat Launches
• Border Monuments
• Campsites
• Cities
• Compressor Stations (found under city search)
• Fishing Lakes, Rivers, Streams, Ocean
• Fishing Resorts-Outfitters
• Gas Plants (found under city search)
• Gates
• Geocaching
• Golf Courses
• Hot Springs
• Hunting Areas
• Huts
• Land Features
• Lodging
• Oil and Gas LSD Grid Locations, PNG Grid Locations (found under city search)
• Marinas
• Paddling Access
• Paddling Routes
• Parks – Provincial – National - Urban
• Picnic Areas
• Portage Locations
• Public Services
• Recreation Sites
• Resource Facilities
• Restaurants
• Rivers and Creeks
• Ski Areas
• Snowmobile Routes
• Trails
• Transportation Services
• Visitor Information
• Water Features
• Waterfalls
• Wildlife Viewing
• Winter Recreation

Garmin compatibility and map format

• Garmin-licensed maps for compatible Garmin GPS devices and Garmin BaseCamp
• Preloaded on an 8 GB microSD card for easy installation
• Seamless topographic mapping at 1:20,000 and 1:50,000 base scales
• Shaded relief and 3D views on supported Garmin devices

Roads, trails and navigation

• Detailed coverage of highways, city streets, rural roads, resource roads and backroads across British Columbia
• Routable road network with road classifications that help distinguish main routes from industrial, resource and unclassified roads
• Clearly identified ATV, snowmobile, multi-use, hiking and paddling routes
• Searchable cities, communities, geographic features and recreation points of interest

Outdoor recreation and land information

• Campgrounds, parks, conservation areas, trailheads, staging areas and backcountry sites
• Fishing waters, boat launches, paddling access points and available bathymetric depth contours
• Hunting areas and other regional land-management information where available
• Resource and industry data, including relevant facilities and access information