National Parks Pocket Maps User Reviews

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Notification Spam

I’m not loving the way that the app assumes I want notifications from every single park I viewed the page of. I don’t need updates on all these parks that I’m not currently at!

Update: I turn off the alerts for each park and I still get alerts for those same parks even though it shows that I turned that off!
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Amazing - do it all

National parks have never let me down. I’m looking forward to spending the next month at as many as possible. You can get a cool passport at many of them and travel all over - very fun to fill up the book with stamps

Glitch

Attempted to use this multiple times during my trip to different NPs and it was glitching. Not losing at all. Useless to have went there is no phone service as well. Needs an offline option.

Response from developer

The app was designed especially for the offline case! As soon as you open a park, the app will download texts, photos, audio guides, the latest news and alerts automatically on the device. You can download park maps, brochures and sections of the base map, too. We would like to hear about any glitches you experienced out there. Please use the "feedback" function in the app's settings menu. We will try to fix any issues in the upcoming releases. Thank you and kind regards, your National Parks Pocket Maps team.

Not working

No longer works on iPad crashes when trying to open. Worked before last update.

Response from developer

🐞 fixed. App starts again on iOS 12 devices. Please download the latest version of National Parks Pocket Maps.

Lots of ads, no way to filter

Just for 30 seconds, lots of ads take up the screen real estate about 30%, and no way to filter only national parks.

Subscriber review

NPS sites provide same info. Buy the year subscription and try to view a National Monument. Oops. Need another subscription. Buy the year National Subscription and try to visit a National Forest. Oops. Need another subscription.

Response from developer

This app has *all* U.S. National Parks, National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, etc managed by the National Park System (NPS). An active subscriptions gives you full access to all data within the app. We also provide a range of local apps for Arizona, California, Utah, ..., with guides to sites and parks managed by other federal agencies (BLM, U.S. Forest Service) and by state and local agencies.

Not User Friendly

Not user friendly.

Response from developer

Good morning! We are constantly trying to improve the user experience with the National Parks Pocket Maps app. Please use the "feedback" function in the app's settings menu to tell us about your helpful suggestions. We will try to fix any issues in the upcoming releases. Thank you and kind regards, your Pocket Maps team.

Great

I really enjoy this app and the info it has. Great maps of the places I love to hike. Dave

BEST app for national park maps!!

Very detailed and reasonable prices for subscription, worth every penny if planning trips to national parks and monuments!!

Poopie

To busy trying to sell me something - check out a little more May just delete

Response from developer

Hi, please check out the latest version 2.6. The free version comes with a ton of features, like offline base maps, current weather data, push notification for park alerts and news, photo galleries. In addition to that you can download all maps and brochures for one park of your choice for free. Subscriptions make the app ad free and let you download all maps and brochures of all parks.

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