Just Ahead is featured on Randy Sharman’s “The Informed Traveler” radio show on National Travel Radio. Randy conducted an eight-minute interview with Just Ahead’s editor and lead writer, Bob Howells. Click on the image below to listen.
Los Angeles Daily News Tells the Just Ahead Story
This feature article in the Los Angeles Daily News tells the story behind Just Ahead, the smartphone app that delivers narrated audio tours of national parks and scenic highways. Click on the excerpt below to read the full article.
Grand Teton National Park Is Just Ahead’s Newest Guide
Grand Teton National Park is Just Ahead’s newest smartphone audio tour, joining its fabled neighbor, Yellowstone National Park, in our growing collection of narrated guides to America’s most gorgeous destinations.
It’s hard to beat Grand Teton for scenic driving. The park has 152 miles of paved roads that deliver views of the majestic Teton Range, follow the course of the winding Snake River, and bisect the vast, sagebrush-dotted valley known as Jackson Hole. Just Ahead guides you along all of the most scenic routes, pointing out the marvels as they appear. And in between, you get tales of the park’s human history, dramatic geology, and abundant wildlife.
Just Ahead Launches Yellowstone National Park Audio Tour
Just Ahead has added Yellowstone National Park to its collection of smartphone audio tours, just in time for the peak travel season to America’s original national park.
Yellowstone is the ideal setting for a Just Ahead tour, with more than 300 miles of incredibly scenic roads fashioning a giant figure-eight loop through a landscape of mountains, meadows, and thermal marvels.
Old Faithful…Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone…Artist Paint Pots…Norris Geyser Basin…Yellowstone Lake… are all among the 600-plus narrated stories in the most extensive guide we’ve ever produced.
As you drive through the park, you hear stories about these and hundreds of other remarkable sights, plus tales of the park’s charismatic mammals and birds. And the best places to see them—bison, elk, grizzly bears, moose, wolves, pronghorn, beavers, trumpeter swans, and giant lake trout.
Grizzly bears represent the abundance of wildlife in Yellowstone. NPS photo by Jim Peaco
Driving to Las Vegas? Check Out Just Ahead’s New Interstate 15 Audio Guide
Our newest smartphone audio guide is also our most unique tour—it’s a guide to Interstate 15 from Los Angeles to St. George, Utah, by way of Las Vegas and Hoover Dam.
In other words, Just Ahead is now developing audio tours of great American roadways to go with our highly popular national park tours. Of course, in the case of Interstate 15, the route happens to link up with a couple of Just Ahead’s terrific national park tours—Death Valley and Zion—which in turn lead neatly into Just Ahead’s many other California and Utah national park guides.
For many travelers, I-15 is known simply as “the way to Vegas,” and if that’s your destination, fine. You’ll learn a great deal on the way. As you cruise along the interstate, we spin yarns about the old Spanish history of the route…its bizarre geographical highlights, including cinder cones and the San Andreas Fault…and the plant life and wildlife that flourish just outside your windows, from Joshua trees to creosote to rattlesnakes.
Naturally, this being the way to Vegas, we cover the quirky history of that one-of-a-kind city.
Just Ahead Now Covers All of Utah’s Mighty Five National Parks
Among the most spectacular driving experiences in America are the roads that lead to and through the red-rock scenery and dramatic geology of Capitol Reef National Park, Arches National Park, and Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Now Just Ahead has GPS-triggered smartphone audio guides for all three of these parks to complement our popular guides for Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park.
Those parks together make up Utah’s Mighty Five—five dramatic national parks, each of them linked by a short drive from the next-nearest park.
Park visitors now can enjoy the delightful experience of a narrated guided tour of all five parks and the roads that link them. Your smartphone becomes a miniature park ranger—knowledgeable, engaging, and entertaining.
Arches National Park. NPS photo by Kait Thomas.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: The Latest From Just Ahead
Few national park settings are as made to order for a Just Ahead mobile audio guide as Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon Park. Which is why we’re particularly proud to announce the release of our brand-new guide to these great Sierra Nevada siblings.
Just Ahead’s audio tour of Sequoia and Kings Canyon travels from the foothills of central California into the High Sierra Nevada to the home of the world’s largest trees. It’s a thrilling journey, traversed by three of the country’s most scenic drives: Mineral King Road in Sequoia, Kings Canyon Scenic Byway in Kings Canyon, and Generals Highway, the twisting mountain road that connects the two parks.
Grand Canyon National Park Is Just Ahead’s Newest Guide
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our newest guide: Grand Canyon National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park visitors can now enjoy a hands-free, narrated audio tour of America’s most iconic geological marvel. Whether you’re driving along the rim, approaching it from any direction, or exploring any of the side trips we recommend, Just Ahead relates stories about the magnificent scenery you see as it rolls by outside your car window.
NPS photo by Michael Quinn
Just Ahead Announces
Bryce Canyon Guide
Just Ahead, the app that turns your smartphone into an audio tour guide, is ready to guide you to and through Bryce Canyon National Park—land of a million hoodoos.
Not that we’ve actually counted the hoodoos. But we do know that Bryce is perfectly suited for a Just Ahead tour. It’s a gorgeous park in the heart of Utah’s Grand Staircase country, with great roads and loads of scenic overlooks—where you see, of course, millions of hoodoos—those amazing fantasy spires of crimson limestone, clustered in mazes and rising from the floor of natural amphitheaters along the edge of the Paunsagunt Plateau.
Zion National Park:
Newest Just Ahead Guide
Just Ahead’s newest smartphone audio tour is a guide to Zion National Park, Utah. You not only get a narrated tour of this spectacular park in Utah’s red-rock plateau country, but you also get a bonus guide: Cedar Breaks National Monument.
In classic Just Ahead fashion, we also guide you along the scenic byways that lead to both destinations.
Two world-famous scenic drives in the heart of Zion lace together the fantastic landforms that make the park such an irresistible draw to visitors: Zion Canyon Scenic Drive and Zion–Mount Carmel Highway. We guide you, entertain you, and tell the stories behind the scenery as the sights roll by:
Court of the Patriarchs • The Grotto • Weeping Rock • Angels Landing • Great White Throne • Big Bend • Temple of Sinawava • Zion Narrows • Zion–Mt. Carmel Tunnel • Checkerboard Mesa • Great Arch • Streaked Wall • Kolob Arch
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