A Strava map print is your recorded route drawn on top of a real map: the roads, the water, the park you cut through, and your line across it. Where the clean-line print shows the shape alone, the map version shows where the shape happened. Connect Strava or drop in the GPX, pick a map style, and it is on screen in your browser before you order.
Seven map styles, one route
The background is a choice, not a fixed look. Light and Warm are pale maps that let the line carry the sheet; Ink is the same map drawn in black; Dark is a night map with the route glowing on it; Blueprint is a single-colour drawing; Streets is the full street map with names; Terrain shows the relief, which is the one to choose for a mountain route. Or None — and it is the clean-line print again.
The map is drawn from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap data, and the sheet carries their attribution in small type, as their licences require. Strava's own map is not used and is not needed: your route is your recording, and it sits on any map.
What the map adds, and what it costs you
A map earns its place when the route is about the place: the marathon through a city you visited, the loop that goes around the lake, the commute that found a better way. It costs a little of the line's clarity — a route on a busy street map is a route among other lines — which is why the pale styles exist. Clean line or a map behind it goes through the decision with examples.
The zoom follows the route. A five-kilometre loop fills the sheet at street level; a 300-kilometre ride shows the region. Either way the map is fetched at print resolution for the size you order, not stretched from a screenshot.
Sizes, paper, frame
Route print: 30×40, 50×70 or 70×100 cm on Museum 250 gsm or Classic 170 gsm, both uncoated matte, from 319 kr. Framed: the same sheet behind acrylic glazing in a solid wood frame — white, black, wood or dark wood — ready to hang, from 799 kr. The numbers under the map come from the file: distance, time, elevation, pace, the date, and a title you write.
The route, not the address
The first and last 500 metres are clipped before anything is drawn, and on a map that matters more than on a plain sheet: a map shows exactly which door a line starts at. The trim happens in your browser and can be pushed out to two kilometres; it does not go to zero. How the trim works.
Getting the route out of Strava
Connect the account in the editor and pick the activity, or export it yourself: on strava.com, more menu, Export GPX — free on every plan, website only (the guide, and the phone workaround). The Strava map as an image is a different thing: a picture of Strava's screen, a few hundred pixels across. This is the route itself, drawn at print size.
All the ways to print a Strava route are on Strava prints. Epic Efforts is not affiliated with Strava.