The Basics

Company Name: Gaia GPS
Location: Fully Remote across 15+ States from California to Maine
Founded: 2008
Full-Time Employees: 30
Products: Mobile and Web App for Backcountry Navigation
Social: Instagram
Claim to Fame: The leading backcountry navigation app

The Culture

The best thing about working at gaia GPS is:

An environment where anyone can do anything, where everyone builds, and where our work incorporates time for life outside and within our local communities.

When we’re not working, we’re:

Planning a backpacking trip, perfecting homemade dehydrated trail meal recipes, exploring America’s national parks, volunteering with a local non-profit, taking a Wilderness First Responder Course, raising our children to love the outdoors.

What we’re reading:

Into Thin Air by Jonathan Krakauer, Becoming by Michelle Obama, The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

What we’re listening to:

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen, Budding Trees, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Blue, Miles Davis

If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:

Trail Made: From Short Walks to Thru-Hikes

Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:

The outdoors belongs to everyone as a means for personal growth, building community, and taking on adventure. We want to represent more people from all backgrounds so that everyone can see a reflection of themselves in the outdoors.

Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:

Gaia GPS will provide more entry points for all people to access the outdoors and push their limits in the backcountry. We will also form lasting partnerships with non-profits committed to building community and outdoor access for marginalized folks.

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