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 Favorite road trip apps

This page is a quick compilation of apps I have found incredibly useful, especially for full-time Vanlife. Note: I am using Apple products- your experience may vary on other platforms, Android,etc.

  • IOverlander: free. Number one app for a crowd sourced everything on the road.

  • Gaia: reasonable subscription fee. Perfect for finding out-of-the-way Boondocking sites as well as hiking trails. A good place to bookmark and save favorite spots and trails. Must download areas before using and have appropriate storage space on phone. Also optimized to save info out of iOverlander and saved maps can give you info ouside of Alltrails maps. Comes in handy when Google or a apple maps don’t have cellular service.

  • All trails, hiking app: subscription fee. Good for getting an idea of hiking trails in new areas and planning trips need to download trail before going limited map and capabilities.

  • Apple Maps: free. Much like Google maps both are not perfect. Important to have map back up app like MAPS.ME.

  • Apple Watch: Workoutdoors App. Excellent mapping app for multiple outdoor activities with offline map capabilities. Watch series 3 or later. Small one time fee.

  • Weather: Foreca or Meteoblue. Free with ads.

  • Watch Duty App: Wildfire tracking. Also checkout https://inciweb.wildfire.gov

  • Boondockers Welcome App: subscription fee. Stay for free in peoples yards or driveways. Good addition to Boondocking spots. (Harvest Hosts is the parent company which offers stays at additional locations such as wineries, golf courses, etc. for an additional fee.)

  • Hiking Project App: free. Useful for more hiking or biking trail ideas.

  • PeakFinder App: Offline peak identifier. Excellent. Small fee.

  • Far Out App: pay per hike and or unlimited tiered subscriptions. Extremely detailed crowd sourced, hiking guide, especially useful for remote and long trips. Can be helpful to get recent water availability reports, etc.

  • Google Earth: free. Good for checking out topographical details.

  • Search: Perplexity.ai I now use this for 99% of my internet searches! Includes sources and no ads.

  • Emergencies: Satellite communications- Garmin InReach, Apple iPhone 15 Pro or later. If you venture out of cellphone range, these devices provide another layer of safety!