National Park Passport Guide

Guide de Parc national Pocket Ranger® Passeport est le guide de votre prochain voyage

The Pocket Ranger® National Park Passport Guide app is now available!

This FREE all-inclusive outdoor guide was created by ParksByNature Network™.

Powered by Pocket Ranger® technology, the app gives outdoor enthusiasts an environmentally friendly way to enjoy the national parks. It contains everything you need to plan a trip to the national parks, navigate them once you get there, and share your experiences afterward.

Highlighted features include:

•Sleek user interface (UI) -- more photo-centric home screen design.

•Photo galleries on each park description page.

•Explore feature to optimize search capabilities, allowing a various ways to search by location, activities, category, and site name, making it easier to find the perfect recreational destination.

The app also has rich GPS features, such as:

•Advanced GPS Maps, complete with an accuracy and distance indicator, which allow you to access trail data, record tracks from hikes, runs, or bike rides, and view elapsed time and distance traveled.

•Easy-to-cache GPS Terrain Map tiles, which ensure that navigation remains possible in the event of lost mobile reception.

•Photo waypoint feature allowing you to snap a photo and mark and record the coordinates of plant life, animal species or landscape views. Post or share these remarkable finds with family and friends with the click of a button.

•Friend Finder features that tracks friends and family around the parks.

•Built-in compass.

•Potentially life-saving Alert feature that supplies GPS coordinates to designated contacts in case of an emergency.

Other standard features make exploring the great outdoors a breeze:

•Thorough information on all national parks including general policy, activities, trails, park maps and much more.

•Detailed, cacheable maps of park facilities, trails and campgrounds.

•Up-to-date news weather information.

•Sharing features for sharing current positions, waypoints and recorded tracks via Facebook, Twitter, or email.

•A real-time Calendar of Events.

•Plus so much more!

With the Pocket Ranger® app in hand, prepare to travel across the country and see what it has to offer!

•The enhanced pro features on the app are designed to function in areas with little to no mobile reception; however, some of the features require mobile data reception in order to function properly.

•Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.