Best app for exploring Colorado, some UX issues
Please please please reimplement one handed zooming. Literally every other map app under the sun lets you zoom with one hand/one finger. This causes such headache for me. I am perpetually trying to tap and slide to zoom (due to muscle memory since Apple Maps, AllTrails, Google Maps, Trails Off-road all working this way), but en up selecting random things and messing up my navigation.
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My favorite trail app
This is such a great app -- and we are so fortunate to have it here in Colorado!
The ability to build out custom routes using all of the existing segments, and having the route snap to the existing trails is stellar. And the option to loop or do a one-tap out and back option? What a quality of life boost.
Being able to follow an area to receive updates on closures or public notices is also great, and the offline functionality? Dope.
I forget to use the field notes portion when im on runs, but it seems like a great way for trail managers to get crowdsourced realtime data on trail issues or animal and plant patterns.
All in all, i hope the state continues to fund this because what an improvement on the various paywalled apps. Its our land, and i love being able to use it knowledgeably!
The ability to build out custom routes using all of the existing segments, and having the route snap to the existing trails is stellar. And the option to loop or do a one-tap out and back option? What a quality of life boost.
Being able to follow an area to receive updates on closures or public notices is also great, and the offline functionality? Dope.
I forget to use the field notes portion when im on runs, but it seems like a great way for trail managers to get crowdsourced realtime data on trail issues or animal and plant patterns.
All in all, i hope the state continues to fund this because what an improvement on the various paywalled apps. Its our land, and i love being able to use it knowledgeably!
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Best app for exploring Colorado
I love this app, I use it any time I want to go for a walk, hike, or off road adventure. I lament hiking in any other state because they don’t have an equivalent. It would be improved by having a CarPlay app as well, there are many roads on this app and it would be useful to see the map in my vehicle I swear this used to be a feature, but being able to double tap and slide to zoom the map is such a boon for one handed use. Would be great if this were (re)implemented!
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Best app for exploring Colorado
I love this app, I use it any time I want to go for a walk, hike, or off road adventure. I lament hiking in any other state because they don’t have an equivalent.
It would be improved by having a CarPlay app as well, there are many roads on this app and it would be useful to see the map in my vehicle
I swear this used to be a feature, but being able to double tap and slide to zoom the map is such a boon for one handed use. Would be great if this were (re)implemented!
It would be improved by having a CarPlay app as well, there are many roads on this app and it would be useful to see the map in my vehicle
I swear this used to be a feature, but being able to double tap and slide to zoom the map is such a boon for one handed use. Would be great if this were (re)implemented!
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Wildly Inaccurate
This app needs it mapping updated terribly. Hiking trails that have been opened or closed in the last five years have not been updated. Forest service roads from the last twenty years are not updated. Some areas have been sold to private citizens so using this app you will find yourself trespassing or having to turn around without completing a trail. Seasonal closures are also wildly inaccurate. If this is a state ran app then this is why the government needs less control. Some features are awesome like planning your route, elevation change and more accurate distances than AllTrails. Yet the apps shortcomings are aggravating and dangerous to say the least.
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Best app by far
I’ve tried them all, this is the clear winner and it’s free. I wish other states would add in this this but thankfully 99 percent of my hiking is in Colorado.
Could the developers add game unit, private land, and previous wild fire layers? That is the only thing this app is missing but even without this, this is the best app I’ve ever used and I’ve paid for most the others. Good work devs!
Could the developers add game unit, private land, and previous wild fire layers? That is the only thing this app is missing but even without this, this is the best app I’ve ever used and I’ve paid for most the others. Good work devs!
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Quirky
I had high hopes for this app, but unfortunately it's useless. It can't receive a GPS signal (and yes, my phone has buit-in GPS). It just kept saying it's unable to lock on to GPS because it doesn't have access to location services, yet there is no option anywhere I can find in the app or on the iPhone's settings to grant said access. The app doesn't appear in the list of apps in the iPhone "Privacy" settings, so there's no way to grant access there, and there are no options within the settings of the app itself to grant access. Once I deleted and reinstalled the app, thugh, it properly registered itself with iOS and was able to access location services.
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Useless
I had high hopes for this app, but unfortunately it's useless. It can't receive a GPS signal (and yes, my phone has buit-in GPS). It just kept saying it's unable to lock on to GPS because it doesn't have access to location services, yet there is no option anywhere I can find in the app or on the iPhone's settings to grant said access. The app doesn't appear in the list of apps in the iPhone "Privacy" settings, so there's no way to grant access there, and there are no options within the settings of the app itself to grant access. There is also no map legend to be found on the phone app, so looking at a downloaded map doesn't tell you anything of value.
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For me, a necessity
I love this app. Lets you make notes about what you encounter, lets you see national forest/park boundaries, record your hikes/drives/etc… I use it all the time and like that the info is “from the horse’s mouth” (from the state itself, not from a 3rd party). Just super well done. I also appreciate the recently added feature of being able to trim your recordings in the event you forget to stop it before you drive back from a hike.
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Very useful
This is been a great app. It save me a few times when I was heading the wrong direction of a trail. Haven’t had any problems.
Would love it. If it was, apple watch compatible just got one and this map definitely needs to be on the Apple watch, especially out dirt biking. It would be amazing to be able to just look down at my wrist instead of having to pull out my phone or use the phone mount. Also would be really cool if you could sync up the group of people you’re riding with so you could see each other on the map. I understand that might require everybody to have cell phone service but could potentially be really cool feature specially if somehow you could have an off-line feature but could see where your friends are !
Would love it. If it was, apple watch compatible just got one and this map definitely needs to be on the Apple watch, especially out dirt biking. It would be amazing to be able to just look down at my wrist instead of having to pull out my phone or use the phone mount. Also would be really cool if you could sync up the group of people you’re riding with so you could see each other on the map. I understand that might require everybody to have cell phone service but could potentially be really cool feature specially if somehow you could have an off-line feature but could see where your friends are !
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