For Gardens & Outdoor Attractions

Bring Your Grounds to Life.

Create self-guided audio tours for gardens, arboretums, sculpture parks, zoos, and outdoor attractions — without building your own app.

A gravel garden path at golden hour, lined with roses, leading past a statue toward a classical building
A tour page in the USTourGuide app with a stop list, route map, and a Start Tour button

Engage Every Visitor

Turn gardens, grounds, and habitats into memorable self-guided experiences.

Easy to Create

Phone or computer — no coding.

QR Code Ready

Publish and get the tour's QR code.

App Discovery

Optionally listed for people browsing the area.

One Tour. Two Ways to Reach Visitors.

Share It On Site with QR Codes

Publish your tour and get its QR code. Place it where visitors begin their experience:

  • Entrance signs and kiosks
  • Ticket counters
  • Printed maps and brochures
  • Trailheads and pathways
  • Gift shop
  • Websites and confirmation emails

No separate custom app to build and maintain.

Be Discovered in USTourGuide

Request a listing for your published tour. Approved tours appear in the app's tour directory and on the map for people browsing the area.

  • Reach visitors planning their day
  • Promote seasonal bloom, new habitats, and programming
  • Surface lesser-known corners of the grounds

Walk the Grounds. Build the Tour.

1

Add the Stop

Stand at the stop — a garden bed, a sculpture, a habitat — and add it.

2

Tell the Story

Dictate or type rough notes — polish comes later.

3

AI Redraft

AI shapes your notes into clean narration. Publish immediately or your team reviews and approves every word before it's published.

4

Automatic TTS Optimization

Numbers, dates, abbreviations, scientific and foreign names, spoken phrasing — prepared automatically.

Written by Your Experts. Prepared for Listening.

5

Add Photos

Take photos or upload approved images.

6

Save and Continue

Move to the next stop — the tour grows as you go.

An entire tour can be built by walking the grounds with a phone.

All from your phone — or create and manage tours from the web.

Perfect for Outdoor Venues of Every Kind

A flower garden in full bloom with fountains and winding paths

Botanical Gardens

Guide visitors through plants, beds, and seasonal highlights.

A path beneath an allée of mature trees

Arboretums

Tell the stories of trees, collections, and champions.

Large bronze sculptures on a lawn as visitors walk a curving path

Sculpture Gardens & Parks

Introduce the artists and works along the walk.

Families at a naturalistic gorilla habitat beside a Meet the Gorillas interpretive sign

Zoos & Wildlife Parks

Share animal stories, habitats, and conservation efforts.

A grand manor house above formal parterre gardens at golden hour

Historic Estates & Grounds

Bring the house, gardens, and outbuildings to life.

A boardwalk trail at a mountain ridge overlook with an interpretive sign

Trails & Outdoor Exhibits

Narrate outdoor circuits, overlooks, and exhibit walks.

Stops trigger outdoors as visitors approach. For indoor buildings on your grounds — a conservatory, visitor center, or exhibit hall — plan a single stop at the entrance; visitors can also tap any stop to play it whenever they like.

One Garden. One Walk. Or the Entire Grounds.

One organization can publish multiple focused tours — visitors choose the experience that fits their interests and time.

A botanical garden might offer

  • Seasonal Highlights
  • Native Plants
  • Heritage Trees
  • Children's Discovery Trail

A sculpture park might offer

  • Collection Highlights
  • Modern Works
  • Local Artists
  • Family Walk

A zoo might offer

  • Zoo Highlights
  • The Savanna Loop
  • Conservation Stories

A historic estate might offer

  • Estate Highlights
  • The Gardens
  • Grounds & Outbuildings

One Collection Can Tell Many Stories.

The same stop can appear in multiple tours — each tour has its own stops. A sculpture can anchor the Highlights walk, the Modern Works tour, and the Local Artists tour, telling a different story at the same spot each time.

A heritage tree can appear in Highlights, in Champion Trees, and again in Seasonal Color. Your grounds are the material; each tour is a different way through them.

Not Every Visitor Wants the Same Tour.

Highlights

8 stops · 30 min

Deep Dive

24 stops · 90 min

Family Tour

10 stops · 45 min

Seasonal Feature

6 stops · 20 min

More Than Fits on a Sign.

An interpretive sign holds a paragraph. A tour stop holds the whole story — longer explanations, narration, photos, and context.

Beside the sign, never instead of it: a tour is an additional interpretive layer for visitors who want more.

Update It When the Grounds Change.

Seasonal bloom, rotating outdoor installations, new habitats, limited-run exhibits: edit the stop, preview it in the production voice, and republish. When a seasonal feature ends, retire its tour.

A tour does not need to be permanent to justify creating it.

Your Grounds. Your Expertise. Your Content.

Your organization decides the topics, the stops, the narration, the images, and the updates — and retains ownership of its original content. Tours are published by your organization under its own name: your venue's own tours.

Willow Creek Botanical Garden Highlights

12 Stops · ~60 Minutes

  • The Entry Court & Fountain
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Heritage Oak
  • The Conservatory (one stop at the entrance)
  • The Japanese Garden
  • The Prairie Meadow
  • The Children's Discovery Trail
  • The Sculpture Lawn

…and four more stops chosen by your horticulturists. A fictional example — your tour features your grounds.

The Willow Creek Botanical Garden tour in the USTourGuide app: route map and the numbered stop list from Entry Court to Sculpture Lawn

Why Outdoor Venues Use It

Deeper Engagement

Visitors linger, look closer, and leave with more.

Self-Guided Access

Every visitor listens at their own pace.

Easy Updates

Edit and republish the day the grounds change.

AI-Assisted Authoring

Your horticulturists, keepers, and historians don't have to be scriptwriters.

Professional Audio

Preview every stop in the production voice before publishing.

One Platform

All your tours in one place — one free app for visitors.

Plans & Pricing

Early-access pricing through general availability; pricing may change.

Public listing included free for early adopters.

Plan Details 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 One shareable tour for your festival, wedding, or event · link + QR code · no subscription
Creator $19/mo
or $190/yr
For an individual or organization · up to 3 listed tours · public listing included free for early adopters
Professional $39/mo
or $390/yr
For an individual or organization · up to 15 listed tours · team access · priority support · public listing included free for early adopters
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: one shareable tour 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. List up to 3 tours. Each listed 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 listed tours, team access, and priority support. Each listed 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.

Your Grounds Already Have the Stories. Let Every Visitor Hear Them.

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