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National Park Trail Guide app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 2848 ratings )
Travel Sports
Developer: Recreational Equipment, Inc
Free
Current version: 4.5.4, last update: 8 months ago
First release : 15 Sep 2015
App size: 99.32 Mb

National Park Trail Guide is your comprehensive guide to hiking and site seeing in our National Parks.

• Currently packing complete trail data and hike descriptions for many of your favorite National Parks, including life-list destinations like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion, Grand Teton, Mount Rainier, Point Reyes, Rocky Mountain, Zion, Acadia and many more!
• Search for hikes using the map or a parks “best of” list curated through star rankings from the community.
• Never get lost again! See your live position on a terrain or satellite map and vertical profile
• No cell signal needed. The data is available offline, and your phone uses its built-in GPS to show your location.
• Plan the perfect trip for you, using our hike difficulty ratings, elevation profiles, star ratings, and informed insights on seasons, camping and lodging, guided tours, food and drink, and more.
• Traveling with kids? We have an expert-selected list of Family Friendly Hikes. Want to target the park’s most beautiful features? View our list of Gems.
• Other cool features: Create a to-do list, track your hikes, or send your exact location to help in case of emergency.
• The app is completely free--it’s our gift to you as part of the National Park Services Centennial Celebration.

By using GPS, we can show your location on trails and vertical profiles. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Pros and cons of National Park Trail Guide app for iPhone and iPad

National Park Trail Guide app good for

So helpful! All in one place, with multiple levels of supportive info for each park. Well executed!
Love the app. Wish the interface to load new trails was better; have to use hiking project app to do so.
just moved to cuyahoga national park. perfect for trail running!
Loving this app. The trail maps are incredible. Just fun to sit and explore possible hiking trails and camp sites. Give it a try, you wont be disappointed
Its easy to tell a lot of work has gone into this app. Its extremely well done!
This is a very well designed app with loads of information...will be my go to app whenever i plan to visit any parks.. Hope they add more apps

Some bad moments

This looks like it would work alright in the lower 48, but in Alaska its nearly worthless. Only has trails and guides around Kenai and Denali. Can find better trail guides in books or online. Would recommend trying to expand this database to state parks as well.
There are many National Parks not available. Very heavy on Western US including smaller National Parks. What makes me rate it low, is the volume of missing parks, exclusion of National Lakeshore Parks (Pictured Rocks), and large Eastern parks like Smokey Mountain National Park.
The fact that the most visited national park in the US is not included makes me question how good this app could possibly be. The Great Smoky Mtns NC version is "in progress" but not the TN side, which includes the majority of the park. This is an awfully big MB-hoarding app to leave out such a significant park. What IS the deal?!?!?
App states maps! Does have maps, spent many minutes looking for directions to areas. No direction support that I can find. Everything else is awesome, yet, may be better if I had a way to get there.
A great concept BUT: Service in the Tetons & Yellowstone is ZERO
I hate signing up for an account when all I want is for the app to do a GPS track in the field. Didnt find out that I needed an account till I was in Yellowstone and of course there was no cell service out there. Best use is at home to plan a trip - but the info is much less detailed than your Lonely Planet guide book. Pretty pictures though!

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