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How It Works

Switching categories

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Menu

Opens the sidebar to switch between categories (Hot Springs, Rest Stops, Rockhounding, and more) and see how many locations are in each.

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Category badge

Shows which category you're viewing and how many locations it has. Tap it to switch categories too.

Map controls

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Search

Find a location by name within the current category.

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Near me

Centers the map on your location and zooms in. Tap again to stop following — your manual zoom/pan won't get overridden while it's active.

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Satellite

Switches the map style between roads/terrain and satellite imagery.

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Nearby

Shows every category within range of your location at once, each pin colored by its own category — not just whatever you're currently browsing. Widens the search radius automatically if nothing's close by.

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Filter

Narrow down locations by features (currently available for Hot Springs, Rest Stops, Free RV Camping, and Waterfalls).

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Suggest a location

Add a new location we're missing. Requires a free account.

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Reading the map

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Colored dots

Each location, colored by category. Tap one to see its details.

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Gold dots (Rockhounding only)

Gold and placer mining sites specifically, as a subset of all rockhounding locations.

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Dimmed dots (Waterfalls only)

Locations we don't yet have detailed source data for. Still real, just lower-confidence — self-filters the busiest areas so the well-documented waterfalls stand out.

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Dark green dots (Free RV Camping only)

National Forest campgrounds, in a darker green than the standard BLM dots — so you can tell Forest Service sites apart from BLM land at a glance. Filter by Land Type to isolate one or the other.

Blue arrow

Your current position, shown while “Near me” is active.

Location details

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Rating

Average visitor rating. Shows “Not yet rated — be the first” if no one's reviewed it yet — we never make up a default score.

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Safety at Night

A separate rating just for how safe a spot feels after dark — useful for solo travelers, especially when camping overnight or visiting a hot spring at odd hours.

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Directions

Opens the location in Google Maps or Apple Maps.

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Write a Review

Leave a rating and review. Requires a free account — this is mainly to keep spam and fake reviews out.

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Update Data

Suggest a correction to the location's details (hours, conditions, amenities, etc.). Requires a free account, and goes through admin review before it's applied.

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Favorite

Save a location to your profile for quick access later. Requires a free account.

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Permalink

A shareable, direct link to that location's page.

Planning a trip

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My Favorites

Shows every location you've favorited, across all categories at once — each one drawn as a heart colored by its category. Requires a free account.

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Time filter

Narrows the favorites view to only what you've saved recently (7/30/90 days), so one trip's picks don't get buried under everything you've ever favorited.

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Route These

Draws an optimized driving loop — starting from your current location — through everything showing in the favorites view, up to 12 stops at once. Shows total distance, drive time, and visit order.

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Share Trip List

Exports your favorites in route order (if you've run Route These) as two lists — share it to Notes or Reminders before you lose signal. First, a tappable link per stop that opens straight to that place's card in Apple Maps (tap + there to save it to your Library). Second, a plain coordinate list with no link — paste one line at a time into Apple Maps' own “Add Stop” search box while mid-route to add it to your active route manually. We can't automate either save step — Apple doesn't allow other apps to write into a user's Maps library or add stops to an active route.

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