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Just Ahead Launches Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park

November 12, 2015 Bob Howells

Just Ahead’s newest smartphone audio tour is Rocky Mountain National Park, a magnificent 265,600-acre park full of mountain splendor and dramatic roads—perfectly suited to a narrated tour. The guide includes all of the park’s major paved routes as well as approaches from both the east and west. As you drive, GPS triggers narration for what you’re seeing. In other words, you come to a bend in a high mountain road and you wonder, “Wow! What’s that mountain?” That’s exactly when we tell you all about it.

This is our first guide in Colorado, and our first guide written by Mel White, highly respected author of National Geographic’s Complete National Parks of the United States.

As with all of our audio guides, once you download it from the Apple App Store or Google Play, you don’t need an Internet connection or mobile-phone signal to use it. Just turn it on, drive, and enjoy.

Just Ahead Joins Pure Adventures for Road Trips in the American West

November 10, 2015 Bob Howells

Just Ahead is delighted to announce an exciting partnership with Pure Adventures, a company that sets up self-guided tours in destinations all over the world.

Just Ahead audio guides will be featured on the company’s Passport to the American West trips—self-guided drive-bike and drive-hike tours that visit spectacular western national parks. Pure Adventures travelers will enjoy Just Ahead narrated tours of such parks as Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Death Valley, and Yosemite, as well as our Interstate 15 guide (Los Angeles to Utah via Las Vegas and Hoover Dam).

Just Ahead and Pure Adventures are a perfect match. Both companies help adventurous travelers get the most enjoyment and value possible from road trips in stunning locations.

The press release below has all the details.

For Immediate Release

Pure Adventures Announces Passport to the US West: Self-Guided Drive and Hike Vacations

Legendary Highways, Distinctive Lodgings, and Iconic National Parks Highlight Pre-Designed Itineraries

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Nov. 11, 2015 – Pioneers of self-guided cycling vacations, Pure Adventures (http://pure-adventures.com/), announces a new high-end offering, Passport to the American West, one or two-week, self-drive and hike vacations focused on the 2016 Centennial Celebration of the US National Park Service.

These vacations that include a National Park pass, award-winning audio tour guides of visited parks, premier accommodation selections, a detailed road book and suggestions on the best hikes can also be customized to a client’s budget and interests.

With suggested travel during the best times to see the West, Pure Adventures recommends warm season tours from March through November. The deserts are very hot in high summer, but the mountains and canyons are cool. Peak visitors are expected in June-September. Ideal travel months are April, May, June and October.

Just Ahead Is Ideal for Fall Travels

October 29, 2015 Bob Howells

For Immediate Release

Just Ahead’s Award-Winning Smartphone App
Ideal for Savoring Uncrowded Autumn
In America’s National Parks

LONG BEACH, CA, Oct. 29, 2015 – Just Ahead (https://www.justahead.com/), synonymous with award-winning smartphone audio tour apps for road tripping through national parks, suggests that the serenity of late autumn, when the tourist crowds are gone, can double the pleasure of exploring this country’s iconic parks and natural destinations.

The fall color in several of the parks might surprise people who think the West doesn’t have an autumn—particularly Zion, Bryce and vicinity, Grand Canyon (particularly the North Rim), Yosemite (notably, Yosemite Valley along the Merced River) and Rocky Mountain (famous for multicolored tundra and golden aspen), Just Ahead’s latest tour release.

Travelers can enjoy Just Ahead narrated audio guides for all of these parks including Utah’s Mighty Five: Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands National Parks. Autumn is also a superb season for enjoying Death Valley and Joshua Tree, also among the Just Ahead family of audio guides.

Just Ahead is known for its award-winning smartphone audio guides, but its online blog is also a trove of information for touring the national parks. Exclusive Trip Planners are available for exploring Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Sequoia & Kings Canyon, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree.

The detailed Trip Planners, written by Just Ahead’s team of expert travel authors, are available in Just Ahead’s blog posts. They detail the don’t-miss sights in each park, lodging and camping options, and the best times of year to visit.

If young children are along on the road trip, the National Park Service Centennial and its Every Kid in a Park promotion offers all fourth graders their own free access to the parks from now through August 31, 2016. Plus, on Veterans Day November 11, all parks will offer free admission.

Grand Teton National Park Is Just Ahead’s Newest Guide

August 4, 2015 Bob Howells

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

July 27, 2015 Bob Howells

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

July 24, 2015 Bob Howells

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

May 20, 2015 Bob Howells

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

April 10, 2015 Bob Howells

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

March 18, 2015 Bob Howells

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

December 15, 2014 Bob Howells

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.

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