A word of caution first. In order to have a detailed rendering of the Rubicon Trail on your GPS, you could not load it as one continuous track - it would have too many individual waypoints. Your (consumer) GPS can not load tracks with more than 500 waypoints.
If you would attempt to load the entire trail data, your (consumer) GPS would truncate them to 500 points - resulting in an unusable depiction of the Rubicon Trail.

So I had to break down the entire trail into sections with no more than 500 waypoints each. I will refine the documents below in the coming months even more, so you can get a maximum of trail data within 20 tracks you can upload to your GPS

However, to view tracks of any length on Google Earth or with GPS software on your computer, you can use tracks that contain 1000's of waypoints in one file.

free download (gpx - universal)

free download (gdb - Garmin)


In some areas are multiple versions of the trail visible. Which ones are legal? If there even is a definition of "legal" on the Rubicon Trail. Legal or not, on the following page I will show you where you can drive and park within the county easement of 50 ft. Trail variations