Almost everyone who rides has stood on a piece of land, theirs or a friend's, and pictured a track on it. The first corner here, a rhythm section down the back, a tabletop where the ground already falls away. The dream is the easy part. What stops most people is everything after it: is my dirt any good, how much land do I actually need, what will it cost, and where do I even start.
That is the gap MotoTerra was built to close. It is a free motocross track design app that starts with your real land, not a blank canvas, and walks you all the way to a build plan you can take into the field.
What MotoTerra is
MotoTerra is a track design and build planner for landowners. You trace your property on satellite, and instead of guessing, it pulls the real public data for that exact spot: USGS elevation, USDA soil, FEMA flood zones, and USFWS wetlands. Then it turns that into a plain verdict on your ground and guides you through the whole project, one stage at a time, from purpose and budget to permits, jump design, construction, safety, insurance, race day, and growing the place. It is free, there is no sign-up, and it works on your phone in the field.
Why start with the land
Because the land decides everything. The soil under your track is the single biggest factor in whether jumps hold their shape or slump after one storm. Your elevation is either a gift you route the track into or a cost you truck dirt to fake. A flood zone or a wetland line can move your whole layout. Most guides give you the general rules. MotoTerra tells you what your specific dirt is, and what to do about it.
How to use it
It takes a few minutes to get real answers.
- Trace your land. Search your address, outline your property on the satellite map, and get your true acreage.
- Read your dirt. Tap once to pull your real elevation, soil, flood, and wetland data, and see the verdict on your ground.
- Design and plan. Size jumps with a simulator built on real physics, set an honest budget with a payback calculator that never oversells profit, build your rider class list from the official AMA rulebook, and work through safety, insurance, and race day.
- Get your plan. When you are done, MotoTerra texts you a clean build plan you can carry into the field.
Built to be honest
Anyone can tell you a track will make money. MotoTerra does the opposite: it builds in the truth that most tracks break even at best and take years to pay back, so you go in with your eyes open. The jump sizes are real. The soil recipe is drawn from engineering standards. The class list matches the actual rulebook. It is the tool we wish existed when we first started talking to track owners.
Learn the craft, then build it
If you want to go deeper before you dig, MotoTerra also has a growing set of free, fact-checked guides: how to build a motocross track, what it really costs, jump design, and the best soil for a track. Each one is grounded in real standards, not guesswork.
Design your track
If you have the land and the itch, stop wondering whether it will work and find out. Trace your property, read your real dirt, and build the plan.
