Bushwalk Australia

Hello,
Can anybody recommend an inexpensive software with which I could plot a new hiking route on a topographic map? For example, the kinds of maps you might see in a hiking guide book? This would be for printing and sharing, not for checking a hike just completed.
Thanks!

Someone on this forum very helpfully put this together: https://maps.ozultimate.com/
Can plot routes, export to google, gps etc.

Gaia GPS has some pretty flexible print functions. It's what I use to generate paper maps for trips.

If you want to get into it seriously then QGIS is free software and can do lots of things and also use background maps from many states BUT be aware of copyright and attribution requirements if you are downloading data or using tile services for background maps and then printing and distributing them.

https://qgis.org/