Garmin BaseCamp

Make the most of your next outdoor activity or relive the trips you’ve taken. Garmin BaseCamp lets you plan outdoor activities, organize your data, and share your adventures with others.

Use Garmin BaseCamp to plan your next hiking, biking, motorcycling, driving, or off-roading trip. You can view maps, plan routes, and mark waypoints and tracks from your computer and then transfer them to your device.

Plan Your Trip

The Track Draw feature allows you to trace your planned route, revealing elevation changes to help gauge the challenge level of your hike or bike ride.

Design the ideal scenic route for your road trip, ensuring your navigator guides you through specific waypoints.

Replay your routes and tracks over time, then save and share your adventure with others.

Overview

• Import and view maps in both 2-D and 3-D, including TOPO and City Navigator® maps.
• Create, edit, and organize routes, waypoints, and more directly on your computer.
• Access BirdsEye Satellite Imagery, BirdsEye TOPO Raster, and BirdsEye Select Raster maps, with options to transfer them to your device (subscription required).
• Capture and share geotagged photos.
• Replay routes, tracks, and entire adventures for a full experience review.

Features

Survey the Terrain
It displays your topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on your computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles. Load map data from your handheld device, or import maps you've downloaded or purchased on DVD or microSD™ card.

Consider TOPO series maps, which offer detail on a scale of either 1:100,000 or 1:24,000.

Geotag Photos
It lets you geotag photos, associating them with specific waypoints. You can see the exact scenery at any given location.

Transfer the photos to your handheld device, publish photos directly to Picasa™, or email your geotagged photos directly to friends or family so they can navigate right to your favorite spots in the future.

Create and Share Adventures
Garmin Adventures provides a free, interactive way to share your hikes, bike rides, road trips, and more. Using the app, you can combine track logs, waypoints, geotagged photos, YouTube® videos, and more into an adventure that gets published online.

You can then email a link to your adventure to friends and family, share it on social media sites or even post it in your favorite forums. Base Camp even makes it easy to follow in the footsteps of other travelers by allowing you to search for and download adventures.

Transfer Satellite Images
With the program and a BirdsEye Satellite Imagery subscription, you can transfer an unlimited amount of satellite images to your outdoor or fitness device and seamlessly integrate those images into your maps to get a true representation of your surroundings.

It makes it easy to scout campsites, sources of water, potential hazards, and more. If you prefer raster topographic maps, you can also download BirdsEye Select maps and pay only for the data you download.

System Requirements

• Windows 11, 10, 8 or 7 is required. Machines with earlier operating systems can use BaseCamp 4.2.5.
• .NET framework 4.6 is required. A current version of .NET will be installed if needed.
• 1 GB of system memory is required, 2 GB of system memory is recommended when using BirdsEye Imagery or Garmin Custom Maps.
• A video card that supports OpenGL version 1.3 or later is needed to enable the 3D view.
• If you experience problems when interacting with the map views, please make sure that you have installed current video card drivers.
• It will recognize all MapSource products except BlueChart.
• BaseCamp does not work with serial GPS devices.

PROS

• Excellent route planning capabilities
• Easy map management and transfer
• Compatible with multiple Garmin devices
• Free to download and use
• Offline map viewing supported

CONS

• Outdated user interface
• Limited support for non-Garmin maps
• Lacks frequent updates
• No mobile app integration

Note: Requires Microsoft .NET framework 4.6; a current version of .NET will be installed if needed.

Also Available: Download Garmin BaseCamp for Mac