Location-aware walking tour: guided route, audio stories, offline map, demo tour
Are you ready to turn your phone into a personal tour guide? This app offers a fully-guided experience - just like a local giving you a personalized, turn-by-turn, fully-guided tour.
Joshua Tree National Park
Explore the rugged, mystical beauty of Joshua Tree National Park with a self-guided driving tour. This raw desert landscape features amazing vistas, stunning rock formations, and the eponymous cartoonish trees. As you drive through Joshua Tree and listen to stories around each bend in the road, keep an eye out for desert animals like the roadrunner, tortoise, and even bald eagle. Plus, enjoy a Bonus Tour of Palm Springs!
This self-guided driving tour of Joshua Tree National Park includes:
■ Joshua Tree Visitor Center
■ Quail Mountain
■ Samuelson’s Rocks
■ Willow Hole
■ Lost Horse Valley
■ Desert Tortoises
■ Hidden Valley Nature Trail
■ McHaney Gang Hideout
■ Intersection Rock
■ Keys Ranch
■ Barker Dam & Cattails
■ Wall Street Mill Trail
■ Lost Horse Mountain & The Gold Thief
■ Desert Sage
■ Lost Horse Mine Loop Trail
■ Keys View
■ Queen Mountain
■ Queen Valley
■ Pine City Trail
■ Desert Queen Mine
■ Skull Rock
■ Sky’s The Limit Observatory & Nature Center
■ Cactus Wren
■ Arch Rock Nature Trail
■ Mastodon Peak
■ Coachella Valley Preserve
■ Coxcomb Mountains
■ Palm Springs Aerial Tramway & Art Museum
■ Walk of the Stars Palm Springs
APP FEATURES:
■ Plays automatically
The app knows where you are and which direction you are heading, and plays audio automatically about the things you are seeing, plus stories and tips and advice. Simply follow the GPS map & the routing line.
■ Fascinating stories
Be immersed in an engaging, accurate, and entertaining story about each point of interest. The stories are professionally narrated and prepared by local guides. Most stops also have additional stories that you can optionally choose to hear.
■ Works offline
No data, cellular or even wireless network connection needed while taking the tour. Download over Wi-Fi/Data Network before your tour.
■ Freedom of travel
No scheduled tour timings, no crowded groups, and no rush to move along past stops that interest you. You have total freedom to skip ahead, linger, and take as many photos as you’d like.
■ Award-winning platform
The app developers received the famous “Laurel Award” from the Newport Mansions, who use it for over a million tours/year.
FREE DEMO vs FULL ACCESS:
Check out the totally free demo to get an idea of what this tour is all about. If you like it, purchase the tour to get full access to all of the stories.
QUICK TIPS:
■ Download ahead of time, over data or WiFi.
■ Be sure the phone battery is fully charged, or take an external battery pack.
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■ 17 Mile Drive:
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■ San Francisco and Golden Gate:
Explore all that San Francisco has to offer and across the world-renowned Golden Gate Bridge!
NOTE:
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app uses your location service and GPS tracking feature to allow real-time tracking of your route.