About

Gear for wherever you drive.

Blacktop & Trail is a gear company for vehicle-based adventure: storage, organization, and recovery equipment for trucks, Jeeps, and the people who take them beyond the pavement.

A graded dirt road leading through granite boulders toward snow-covered peaks.
Alabama Hills, California
The idea

The vehicle is the base camp.

Most trips start in a driveway. The same truck or Jeep handles the commute, the hardware store, and the forest road on the weekend — and the gear inside it has to keep up with all three.

We're focused on that gear: the things that keep a vehicle organized, make equipment easier to reach, and keep the essentials close when the road changes.

How we'll work

Four principles.

  1. 01

    Focused

    A short list of functions — storage, utility, recovery, adventure — instead of everything for everyone.

  2. 02

    Fitment first

    Every product will list the vehicles it fits by make, model, and year. If a fit isn't confirmed, we'll say so.

  3. 03

    Honest listings

    Real photos, verified specifications, and clear policies before anything goes on sale.

  4. 04

    Daily to backcountry

    Gear chosen to be useful on an ordinary Tuesday, not only on the big trip.

Where we are now

Pre-launch.

We're finalizing suppliers now. Until that's done, the catalog on this site is a preview: products are shown as concept illustrations, and pricing, fitment, shipping, and return policies are marked as coming soon.

Everything will be published before the first product goes on sale.