We could have piled it all into a single file. The country doesn’t allow it: between the hamadas of the south, the Atlantic cliffs and passes above 3,000 metres, these are three trips with nothing in common. So we split our Morocco offroad guide into three standalone roadbooks, drivable separately or end to end. Nador → Tata and Tata → Chefchaouen are €59 each, Tata → Agadir is €79. Every volume comes as a PDF with the GPX tracks, downloadable within the minute.

We could have strung together cities and tarmac. We chose the opposite. For two years we came back, season after season, to log what no app shows: the forgotten tracks, the passages that need a real 4×4, the bivouac spots where you actually sleep in peace.

The result is a Morocco offroad guide in three volumes: complete itineraries, documented point by point, built to travel self-sufficiently without ever driving blind. From the dunes of the Sahara to the narrow gorges of the Atlas, from the kasbah road to the Atlantic beaches, you know where you’re going and what’s waiting.

Two years isn’t long to do things right. It’s the time it takes to drive a track across several seasons, to check it holds its promise when the wind picks up, and to confirm that a GPS point leads where it says it does. That work is finished, checked and written up clean. It’s in your hands now.

Google Maps often stops where the adventure begins. In town, the app does the job. On the southern tracks, it offers you a route that doesn’t exist, or sends you somewhere you’ve no business being. The signal vanishes, and your margin for error with it.

A dedicated Morocco offroad guide is the opposite of a generic map: proven tracks, verified GPS coordinates, difficulty levels stated upfront, the fuel and water windows, and highlights scouted one by one. It’s the difference between a route and an adventure. To get a feel for the terrain before you buy, we share our notes in our Morocco round-up article and in our first magazine.

Between the southern dunes and the northern mountains lies the Atlas. It’s the backbone of the trip, and the part we like best. In the Middle Atlas, you drive in the shade of cedar forests, where the macaques cross the track in no hurry. Further south, the High Atlas raises its passes and its Berber villages clinging to the slope, up to kasbahs the tour coaches have forgotten.

And then there are the lost tracks. Old colonial roads, muleteer paths, links between valleys that only locals still know and that have vanished from the maps. This is where two years of scouting earns its keep: the GPS hesitates, so we test, and we come back in another season to confirm. The reward is silent passes, hamlets without a single tourist, and often a tea nobody asked for. Our Morocco offroad guide logs the ones worth the detour and still passable, saying plainly what each one demands.

Contrary to a common idea, Morocco has no single season. You just follow the regions. We go all year, adapting the route to the weather rather than the other way round.

The two southern volumes run from September to May, while the desert stays liveable. The one climbing to Chefchaouen opens from April to October, once the snow has left the high passes. Morocco works best when you follow the seasons, and our Morocco offroad guide is built that way, to send you to the right place at the right time. Releasing them now is also good timing to plan an autumn departure without rushing.

Pixie follows us everywhere, from the most remote tracks to the finest bivouacs. Bringing a dog along on the tracks takes a bit of preparation, but nothing insurmountable. You’ll need a pet passport, an up-to-date rabies vaccination with a blood titre test for the way back, ISO microchip identification and a health certificate from your vet. Allow one to two months ahead.

On the ground, daily life is simpler than you’d fear: plenty of water, shade in the hot hours, and an eye on the paw pads after a day of stones. The prep section of our Morocco offroad guide gathers the up-to-date rules and our concrete pointers, because a track Pixie signs off on is usually an excellent track.

A Morocco offroad guide is judged on its precision. Here’s what you download, no filler:

• The complete roadbook as a PDF, stage by stage, readable on phone and computer alike.
• The GPX tracks ready to load into your GPS or your app, usable with no signal.
• The mapped alternatives to bypass the technical passages or a wadi running high.
• The waypoints: bivouacs, viewpoints, tricky sections, fuel stations and campsites.
• The difficulty level of each track, stated honestly.
• The prep guide: paperwork, ferry, temporary import, water, fuel, emergency numbers.
• The rules and tips for travelling with a dog.