For Parks & Trails

Bring Your Parks to Life.

Create self-guided audio tours for your parks, trails, nature centers, arboretums, and zoos — and help visitors connect more deeply with the natural world.

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Two hikers walking a forest trail past a wooden Pine Ridge Nature Trail sign that reads scan to start the tour, with a QR code
A guided tour in progress in the USTourGuide app: numbered stops on a trail map with audio playback controls

Engage Visitors

Share the stories behind landscapes, plants, animals, and history.

Easy to Create

Phone or web — no technical skills required.

QR Ready

Publish and get the tour's QR code for signs, maps, and kiosks.

App Discovery

Make your tours discoverable to travelers 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. Put it where visitors already are:

  • Trailheads
  • Visitor centers
  • Park maps and brochures
  • Exhibits and overlooks
  • Campgrounds and kiosks
  • Websites

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 travelers browsing the area.

  • Reach visitors planning their day
  • Highlight lesser-known trails and sites
  • Encourage longer visits
  • Promote multiple sites through one organization

Easy to Create. All From Your Phone.

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Add Stops

Walk or drive the route and drop stops where the stories live.

2

Tell the Story

Type or dictate your notes at each location.

3

AI Redraft

AI shapes your notes into clean narration — your organization reviews everything before it's published.

4

Automatic TTS Optimization

Tuned automatically for clear, natural narration.

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Add Photos

Take photos on the trail or upload images.

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Publish & Share

Publish your tour and get its QR code.

Create on the trail — or manage your tours from the web.

Tours You Can Create

A footpath winding through tall pines

Hiking Trails

Guide hikers mile by mile with natural and cultural stories.

A road curving toward snow-capped mountains

Scenic Drives

Create narrated drives through beautiful landscapes.

A still lake reflecting forest and peaks

Nature Centers

Enhance grounds and outdoor exhibits with self-guided tours.

A garden path through flowering beds and trees

Arboretums & Gardens

Identify plants, trees, gardens, and seasonal highlights.

A giraffe on zoo grounds among trees

Zoos

Bring habitats and grounds to life with engaging stories.

A waterfall pouring over a forested ledge

Parks & Attractions

Create tours for waterfalls, overlooks, campgrounds, and historic features.

IMPORTANT: Tour stops are triggered by GPS location — a stop begins as visitors approach and keeps playing inside, but new stops don't trigger indoors. Plan indoor buildings as a single stop at the entrance.

Why Parks & Trail Organizations Use It

Increase Visitor Engagement

Turn a walk into a guided experience.

Enhance Education & Interpretation

Every stop can teach. Turn a tour into a childrens scavenger hunt.

Reduce Staffing Demands

Self-guided interpretation where staff-led tours can't scale.

Promote Conservation & Stewardship

Stories build care for the places they explain.

Update Anytime

Seasonal changes, trail closures, new exhibits — edit and republish.

You Don't Need a Technology Department.

No coding. No app development. No recording studio.

Walk the trail. Tell the story. Review it. Publish it.

Friends-of-the-park groups and volunteer naturalists welcome.

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.

Your Park Has Stories Worth Discovering.

Teach, inspire, and connect with every visitor.

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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.

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