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How to connect AllTrails MCP to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to AllTrails MCP. Find dog-friendly trails near boulder, compare nearby hikes by difficulty, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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AllTrails MCP is a trail discovery service for hiking, biking, and running routes. Use it to find reviewed trails, photos, maps, difficulty info, and route details fast.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your AllTrails account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find dog-friendly trails near Boulder, compare nearby hikes by difficulty, show running routes with photos, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting AllTrails to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your AllTrails account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to AllTrails or give it any AllTrails-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find dog-friendly trails near Boulder"
  • "Compare nearby hikes by difficulty"
  • "Show running routes with photos"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your AllTrails account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like AllTrails through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the AllTrails MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The AllTrails MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your AllTrails account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform AllTrails operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every AllTrails MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Find trails near location

Find hiking, running, biking, backpacking or other trails for outdoor activities near a set of coordinates within an optional specified maximum radius (meters).

Find trails within bounds

Find hiking, running, biking, backpacking or other trails for outdoor activities within a specified bounding box defined by southwest and northeast coordinates.

Get trail details

Find detailed information about a trail from AllTrails.

Get trail weather overview

Get 7-day forecast for a trail at its trailhead, including high/low temperatures.

Search trails by name

Search for hiking, running, biking, backpacking or other trails by full or partial name match.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone AllTrails MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of AllTrails tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from AllTrails and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right AllTrails tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which AllTrails scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your AllTrails data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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