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

Works well for locating position, but doesn't navigate. Loads slow. Constantly saying app isn't responding, even after a clean reinstall. Very annoying to have to redownload offline maps every 90 days, now that I need to update , app errors out and says the maps aren't available. I've updated in the past, so new release? I even uninstalled and reinstalled, but same problem.

I have used this app multiple times while visiting national forests in CO and UT. The new offline map and locate me features are great when lacking a data connection. When my cell signal is weak, I just put my phone into airplane mode. The app updates to disconnected mode quickly creating an almost seamless experience. In addition, most capabilities continue to work while offline including search and identify which is really helpful especially given the detail in the data set.

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.

What’s new

- Fixed issue with the Identify Tool.
- Fixed issue with the Favorite Tool.
- Updated the header information to resolve Explore menu and Offline map errors.