Visitor Map - USFS Lands

USDA Forest Service

About this app

Explore the great outdoors by visiting America’s backyard -- 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands. Find your perfect spot on these expansive lands that include more than 4,300 campgrounds and 158,000 miles of trails, including 31,900 miles on pristine wilderness areas.

Discover our rich cultural heritage at such destinations as Chimney Rock National Monument. Step back into time by stepping on tracks left 150 million years ago by dinosaurs at the Picket Wire Trail in southeast Colorado, where you also can see Native American rock art, ruins from the Dolores Mission and Cemetery and the old Rourke cattle ranch.

These lands also play host to more than 6,000 miles of wild and scenic rivers that offer leisurely rides passed awe-inspiring scenery or breathtaking rollercoaster-like rides down rapids. We are your year-round destination, including skiing on one of the 122 ski areas in the winter, photographing the bursting colors of wildflowers, cooking s’mores around the campfire in the summer or watching leaves change colors in the fall.

Notable app. features include:
* accessible recreation locations
* simplified and streamlined map interface
* national-level search capabilities
* wildfire and weather warnings/watches
* easily share the map through email or on social networks
* offline mapping

Ratings and reviews

Great tool for those looking to explore the national forests. It's not as smart as google maps but is way more detailed. Half of the roads I've been on didn't even load on maps. Feature requests as of 7/29: Highlighting routes, can already highlight individual roads but not more than one at a time. Dispersed camping dots, slightly annoying that I need to stop by the park ranger office but not a deal breaker. Be able to orientat the app upsidedown.

Large and often difficult to find what I'm looking for, but when I get there, it does provide a lot of useful info: motor vehicle use maps - MVUs - old logging roads, for the most part; campgrounds; areas where primitive camping is allowed - which they call Dispersed camping; picnic areas, etc. Because it's such a huge file, I usually uninstall it after I've found what I need, and reinstall it when I need it again.

Keep improving! USFS created a very intuitive, user-friendly app, and solicits feedback! I love: - Speedy, smooth displays of map, while zooming/panning. - Forest Road descriptions with a tap on/near the road!! See what vehicles are allowed, whether high clearance is required, rough or paved, etc. Can't get that on USFS Motor Vehicle Use maps. - Touch & Hold "zoom circle" lets me read fine print, like road names, on maps. REQUEST: Make map Legend available at all times via button tap.

What's new

New test build of IVM.