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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.

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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

Grizzly bears represent the abundance of wildlife in Yellowstone. NPS photo by Jim Peaco

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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.

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Update from Just Ahead’s Founder and CEO

July 14, 2015

From the desk of Gregory Morse, Founder of Just Ahead www.justahead.com, the app that turns your smartphone into a road trip audio guide.Gratifying feedback and unsolicited accolades have been pouring in from Just Ahead users!

  • “LOVE this idea!! It’s like you went into my brain and pulled out something I never even knew that I wanted but now can’t think to live without. You’re awesome!”  —Michelle Jeffries
  • “We LOVE your guides! We retired last year and are traveling the country. We used your Sequoia & Kings Canyon guide and can’t thank you enough for pointing out Redwood Canyon. It was amazing! We also used your Yosemite guide both in our car and on our Harley Davidson Road Glide. The guide information worked beautifully through the stereo and made it so easy to explore these parks.” —Bob Murray 
  • “Holy cow! Just got back from my Death Valley trip and I can’t believe how great the app was along the journey. Not only did it guide us to hikes and places we might have (easily) overlooked, but gave us perspective of the park that allowed us to appreciate it on a whole new level (history, points of interest, flora/fauna, etc.).” —Just Ahead fan Jesse Forest
  • Called “Best App” by the editors of Sunset Magazine, and won the “Best Travel App” award from the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA).

Who are we? We’re the entrepreneurs and adventurers at Just Ahead who remove boredom, anxiety and worry from road trips by creating entertaining, informative smartphone audio guides that keep eyes and ears—young and old—glued to stories and landmarks while driving through our national parks and scenic highways. Just Ahead utilizes GPS technology to know exactly where drivers are on the road, and delivers stories and maps relevant to their exact location.

The glowing reviews for Just Ahead are largely due to the creative team responsible for the fascinating stories told along the open road. They include:

  • Bob Howells, editor and lead writer: Former correspondent for Outside magazine, editor-at-large of National Geographic Adventure and contributor to, among others, Smithsonian and Travel + Leisure. Co-author of National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, National Geographic Secrets of the National Parks and National Geographic’s The 10 Best of Everything: National Parks. Three-time Lowell Thomas Award winner, including the 2009 Silver Award for Travel Journalist of the Year from the Society of American Travel Writers. Bob’s Just Ahead Guides are Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Zion & Cedar Breaks, and Bryce Canyon.
  • Alan Rider: Longtime writer for AAA publications and guidebooks, and contributor to National Geographic books, including National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways. Alan’s Just Ahead Guides are Grand Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches & Canyonlands, Black Hills & Mount Rushmore, and Badlands National Park.
  • Mike Steere: Correspondent for Outside, contributor to Men’s Journal, Inc, and Wired, and co-author of several books, including Brothers of Iron, a memoir of the muscle-and-fitness pioneers Joe and Ben Weider. Mike’s Just Ahead Guides are Interstate 15 and Hoover Dam, Mesa Verde, Canyon De Chelly, Petrified Forest, and Monument Valley.
  • Aaron Teasdale: Former deputy editor at Adventure Cycling, writer and photographer for, among others, Sierra, Sunset, Mountain, and National Geographic Adventure. He is a three-time Lowell Thomas Award winner, including a bronze award for Travel Journalist of the Year in 2013, from the Society of American Travel Writers. Aaron’s Just Ahead Guides are Yellowstone and Grand Teton.
  • Mel White: Author of National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United States, and co-author of other National Geographic books, including Secrets of the National Parks and The 10 Best of Everything: National Parks. Mel’s Just Ahead Guides are Great Smoky Mountains and Rocky Mountain.

Already available are audio guides for 11 national parks—and in time for summer vacation we will launch several more including Just Ahead’s first highway guide: Interstate 15 (Los Angeles to St. George, Utah, via Las Vegas and Hoover Dam). We also recently released a much-anticipated Android version of Just Ahead.

The Just Ahead app is a free download available either through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Each destination guide is available as an in-app purchase and includes a free trial and free guide updates. Prices range from $7.99 to $9.99.

Please let us know if you are headed to a destination covered by one of our guides, and we can send you a complimentary code for a test drive. We’d love for you to help sing the praises for what we think will change and enhance the way folks enjoy an American road trip.

The best of the summer to you!

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Gregory Morse
Founder, Just Ahead
gmorse@justahead.com
https://www.justahead.com

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Just Ahead “Essential” for Road Trips to National Parks

SmarterTravel.com, a great travel website that touts itself as the largest online travel resource for unbiased travel news, deals, and timely expert advice, has included Just Ahead in its list of 10 road-trip essentials.

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Don’t Leave Home Without These Road-Trip Essentials

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If the national parks are on your itinerary this summer, download the Just Ahead app, a set of audio travel guides that will alert you when attractions and things to do come up as you drive through areas. You don’t even need cell phone or internet coverage for this app to work.

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The NEA Highlights Just Ahead for Your Next Road Trip

The National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest professional employee organization, calls Just Ahead a smart tool for “banishing travel woes” on your next road trip. The story appears on the association’s NEA Member Benefits website.

Just Ahead a smart tool for "banishing travel woes" on your next road trip.

Banish Travel Woes with These Smart New Tools

Spend more time enjoying your vacation with these new gadgets and apps.

Get a customized guided road trip: Your next road trip just got a whole lot more interesting thanks to a new app called Just Ahead—simply download the app to your smartphone and listen as it’s transformed into a hands-free, professionally-led audio tour at six national parks, including Yosemite, Zion and Cedar Breaks, Bryce Canyon, Joshua Tree, Grand Canyon and Death Valley (nearly a dozen more guides will launch this summer). You don’t even need cell coverage or an Internet connection—the app uses GPS to determine where you are on the road and delivers relevant stories and maps right to you. Just Ahead also helps drivers avoid getting lost by providing helpful suggested directions. The app is free, but guides start at $7.99.

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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.

Arches National Park. NPS photo by Kait Thomas.

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