Your Tour Guide
2 Ways to Explore

Just Drive.
Stories Play.

Travel anywhere and hear more than one million
location-based stories automatically as you go.
No searching, no route to follow, hands-free.

Explore map in the USTourGuide app showing 42 posts in this area, with category markers scattered across the map

Take a Tour.
Or Make One.

Choose a guided tour and follow it stop by stop —
or create your own, share it privately, or publish it
for travelers passing through the area to discover.

A guided tour in the USTourGuide app: Landings Ln, stop 0 of 8, with a numbered route drawn on the map and audio playback controls

The only nationwide tour guide app that goes wherever you go - explore as you drive, take custom tours, or create and share your own.

One Map, Millions of Stories

Select the subjects that interest you. USTourGuide handles the rest.

The Explore map with branded category markers and the category filter bar
  • History Historic markers, National Register of Historic Places listings, battlefields, founding sites, and the events that shaped a place.
  • True Crime Unsolved cases, notorious trials, crime scenes, and the real stories behind the headlines, told where they happened.
  • Culture & Arts Public art, museums, theaters, literary landmarks, and the people and traditions that shaped a community's creative life.
  • Nature Trails, overlooks, wildlife habitats, and the geological and ecological features that make a landscape worth stopping for.
  • Roadside Attractions Giant statues, quirky landmarks, world's-largest oddities, and the offbeat stops that make a road trip memorable.
  • Music & Movies Filming locations, recording studios, birthplaces of musicians, and the real-world settings behind songs and films.
  • UFO & Supernatural Reported sightings, haunted locations, local legends, and the unexplained stories tied to a specific place.
Coast to Coast

What Will the Road Tell You?

More than one million stories across all 50 states.

Illustration: a pictorial map of the United States with landmarks from coast to coast

Just Drive. Stories Play.

Three easy steps to start exploring.

1

Open the app

It knows where you are.

USTourGuide app welcome screen: Your Personal Tour Guide, ringed by category icons, with a Let's Go button
2

Choose your interests

Pick the story categories you love.

Select Your Tour Themes in the USTourGuide app: History, True Crime, Culture & Arts, Nature, and more
3

Start moving

Stories play automatically.

USTourGuide playing a story on the map: route to the next stop, with audio playback controls

The website and portal may use AI to draft or polish tour text.

Take a Tour. Or Make One.

Three easy steps to start a tour.

1

Choose a tour

Pick a tour near you.

The Tours list in the USTourGuide app: Create your own tours, plus nearby tour cards with stops, distance, and time
2

It knows where you are

Start walking or driving and each stop tells a story.

A guided tour in the USTourGuide app: map of the route and a numbered list of stops
3

Create a Tour

All on your phone or from the website at your desk.

Your Tour in the USTourGuide app: name, stops, listing, starting point, and share checklist, with Test Tour

Drive It. Walk It. Explore It.

A mountain valley vista under blue sky at Hurricane Ridge

Drive

Automatic narration as you travel.

The mansion at Mount Vernon in evening light

Walk

Nearby stories and guided walking tours.

Glowing sandstone curves inside Antelope Canyon

Explore

Browse posts and tours anywhere on the map.

The Landscape Has a Story

Learn why a cliff formed, what happened along a road, who lived in a neighborhood, or where a legend began — while you're actually there.

Turn Your Knowledge Into a Location Based Audio Tour Guide complete with photos

With just your phone, walk the route, place the stops, tell the stories, share the finished tour in about the time it would require to take the tour.

Learn about publishing
A tour stop in the USTourGuide app: Willow Creek Botanical Garden, stop 6 of 8, with the stop photo and playback controls

For Organizations

Cities, parks, museums, universities, and historical societies use USTourGuide to publish official tours, delivered through the same free consumer app.

  • Reach travelers where they already are — your tours publish into an app already populated with ambient content across all 50 states.
  • Author in the field, from a phone — walk the route, drop stops where you stand, and dictate the story on the spot. No cell or internet connection, NO PROBLEM. You can upload the tour later when you have coverage.
  • Or author from the web portal — write and organize your tours from a desk, with the same publishing pipeline. See phone and portal authoring.
  • Hear it before travelers do — preview your tour in the production voice before you publish.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial framed by pine trees
Every landmark, park, and main street has stories worth telling.

Plans & Pricing

Public listing is free for early adopters; listings are reviewed before they go live and approval isn't guaranteed.

Plan Price What's included
Free $0 Create up to 3 personal tours in the USTourGuide app — yours to enjoy on your own phone Available in the app
Event Pass $24 one-timegood for 1 month Up to 3 shareable tours for your festival, wedding, or event · link + QR code · good for 1 month · no subscription Available in the app
Creator $19/mo
or $190/yr		 For an individual or organization · up to 3 published tours
Professional $39/mo
or $390/yr		 For an individual or organization · up to 15 published tours
Destination Custom High-volume publishing · multi-organization coordination · onboarding support Contact us to get started

Free

Free is for keeping up to 3 personal tours on your own phone. Walk a route, drop stops, and listen back yourself in the USTourGuide app.

This plan does not include the web portal, public listing, or publishing for other people.

Event Pass

Event Pass is for a festival, wedding, reunion, or other dated event: up to 3 shareable tours with a link and QR code so guests can find it. It is not a subscription.

Event Pass does not include the web portal or an ongoing listing. When the month ends, the pass is done.

Creator

Creator is for an individual or a small organization. Publish up to 3 tours. Each published tour is a shareable tour with a link and QR code so guests can find it. Public listing in the USTourGuide directory is included free for early adopters — that listing benefit is not a permanent guarantee.

Web portal included. Author on a phone in the field or at a desk, then publish into the same pipeline. See how phone and portal authoring work together.

Professional

Professional is for an individual or organization that needs more volume: up to 15 published tours, team access, and priority support. Each published tour is a shareable tour with a link and QR code so guests can find it. Public listing is included free for early adopters — not a permanent guarantee.

Web portal included, including team access for desk authoring. See how phone and portal authoring work together.

Destination

Destination is a custom arrangement for high-volume publishing, multi-organization coordination, and onboarding support. Portal access and listing are set with you.

Contact us to get started.

All prices in U.S. dollars (USD). We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

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Public listing in the USTourGuide directory is currently included at no charge as an early-adopter benefit. Listing may become a separate add-on in the future; early-adopter tours will be notified before any change.

Stewardship

Get credit for your expertise, and send travelers to your website.

Know your county's history, its ghost stories and UFO sightings, its film locations, or any of dozens of other subjects better than anyone? Help us tell it. The stories USTourGuide plays as travelers pass a landmark, a marker or a strange sighting come from public records, and public records have gaps. Stewardship gives local historical societies, county organizations and specialist groups editing responsibility for the records in their territory or their subject: correct a date, add a photo, retell a story the way it should be told, publish a place we missed. Every record you care for can carry a "Learn more" link to your own website, so the travelers you inform become the visitors and members you're looking for. Stewards work in the same portal our publishers use, with a map of every record in their care, and every change goes live right away. Stewardship is free, and steward organizations also receive at least fifteen custom tours of their own to design, publicize and list publicly at no charge.

Contact us about stewardship

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