Early access · staza.world

Go somewhere
worth
discovering.

Staza turns real mountain passes, summits, castles, waterfalls and viewpoints into collectibles. Upload a ride, a run or a hike and claim every place you crossed.

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Illustration of a Staza route across the Black Forest with discovered collectibles marked along the track.

The collection

The world is
the game board.

Five collectible categories, each with its own detection radius and XP value.

  • 100–600 XP

    Mountain Pass

    Value scales with elevation

    Stelvio · Galibier · Mortirolo

  • 50 XP

    Summit

    90 m detection radius

    Feldberg · Brandenkopf · Belchen

  • 35 XP

    Castle

    75 m detection radius

    Hohenzollern · Geroldseck

  • 35 XP

    Waterfall

    75 m detection radius

    Rheinfall · Triberg Falls

  • 20 XP

    Viewpoint

    60 m detection radius

    Hornisgrinde · Schauinsland

How it works

Move. Discover.
Earn.

  1. 01

    Move

    Ride, run or hike with any device that records a .FIT file.

  2. 02

    Detect

    Upload the file. Staza matches your GPS track against every known place.

  3. 03

    Collect

    Everything you passed close enough to is added to your collection.

  4. 04

    Earn

    Each discovery awards XP. XP raises your level and your rank.

Quests

Linked regions.
Linked rides.

A quest groups the collectibles of one region into a single objective. Finish it across as many activities as you need.

  • Tied to real geography. Every step is an actual place you can reach.
  • Cross-activity. Progress carries across every ride, run and hike.
  • Bonus XP. Closing out a region rewards more than its places alone.

  • Rare · Upper Rhine

    Rhine Corridor

    2,400 XP

    4/6

    • Breisach Fortress
    • Kaiserstuhl Summit
    • Baden Vineyard Pass
    • Freiburg Cathedral View
    • Schluchten Gorge
    • Titisee Viewpoint

  • Epic · Alps

    Alpine Crossings

    8,000 XP

    2/8

    • Stelvio Pass
    • Umbrail Pass
    • Mortirolo
    • Gavia Pass
    • Giau Pass
    • Tre Cime View
    • Monte Grappa
    • Marmolada

  • Common · Schwarzwald

    Black Forest Peaks

    1,800 XP

    6/6

    • Feldberg
    • Belchen
    • Schauinsland
    • Kandel
    • Hornisgrinde
    • Blauen

Example quests, shown for illustration.

Activity log

Every ride has a story.

Upload your .FIT file and Staza replays the route, surfacing every collectible you crossed along with the XP it earned.

Sat 14 Sept · Cycling · 4h 22min

Schwarzwald Traverse

+1,640

XP earned

Distance
94.7 km
Elevation
2,340 m
Avg power
3.8 W/kg

5 places discovered

  • Schwarzwald Pass Mountain Pass · Epic +340 XP
  • Burg Geroldseck Castle · Rare +220 XP
  • Hornisgrinde View Viewpoint · Common +85 XP
  • Brandenkopf Summit Summit · Rare +180 XP
  • Triberg Falls Access Waterfall · Common +120 XP

Example activity, shown for illustration.

Progression

A rank earned
by discovery.

Every collectible you claim adds XP. Levels follow a fixed curve — each level costs 100 XP more than the one before it — so progress is predictable and never for sale.

From level five onwards each level carries a named rank that reflects how much of the map you have actually covered.

  1. Adventurer 1,000 XP
  2. Explorer 1,500 XP
  3. Pathfinder 2,800 XP
  4. Trailblazer 3,600 XP
  5. Waymaker 4,500 XP

Data

Built around
real places.

Collectibles are imported from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and quäldich, scored for prominence and matched against real elevation data. Nothing is invented.

  • Mountain Pass

    Passo dello Stelvio

    2,758 m · Lombardy, Italy

  • Summit

    Feldberg

    1,493 m · Black Forest, Germany

  • Castle

    Burg Hohenzollern

    855 m · Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  • Waterfall

    Rheinfall

    Neuhausen, Switzerland

  • Mountain Pass

    Col du Galibier

    2,642 m · Hautes-Alpes, France

  • Viewpoint

    Tre Cime di Lavaredo

    2,999 m · Dolomites, Italy

For people who move

A reason to go
further.

The best rides are not the fastest ones. They are the ones that take you somewhere new.

Cyclists climbing a serpentine alpine road above a valley. Trail runner ascending a mountain path through wildflowers. Gravel cyclist riding a track through a green mountain valley.

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still mostly fog.

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