Experience the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and Badlands National Park!
The travel app that turns your smartphone into a GPS audio tour guide.
Key Features
Great Content — Written by award-winning travel writers from National Geographic, Outside Magazine, AAA, and others
Works Anywhere — Without phone service or WiFi!
Hands-Free — Stories play automatically to let you drive safely and see more sites
Inexpensive — Our Black Hills & Rushmore and Badlands mobile audio guides cost less than most guidebooks
Encourages Exploration — Entertains while educating
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Secrets of Mt. Rushmore, Black Hills, and Badlands Revealed!
Stories You’ll Hear
Why Those Four on Rushmore?
The story behind the sculptor’s choices
Dead Man’s Hand
Wild Bill Hickok’s fatal poker game
Awesome Spearfish Canyon
Drive beneath 2,000-foot palisades
Cheetahs Didn’t Prosper
Why pronghorn are the nation’s speed champs
60 Mammoths Under One Roof
The often-overlooked Mammoth Site
This Mountain Carving Dwarfs Rushmore
Crazy Horse stands very, very tall
Silent Cal’s Favorite Hangout
Game Lodge has Coolidge heritage
How to Carve Badlands
A simple process, really
Where the Buffalo Roamed
Vast grasslands are a Badlands bonus
Echoes of the Ghost Dances
Tragic history of the Oglala Sioux
Nuclear Missiles in Them Thar Hills
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Home Sweet Sod Home
The not-easy life of prairie pioneers
So You Want to Be a Paleontologist?
You’re in the right place
Dirty Lowdown Polecats
Home of the rare black-footed ferret
Plus Much More!
How It Works
Get the Full Story
Just Ahead audio guides are written by expert authors and narrated by professionals. You simply drive, while Just Ahead informs and entertains you.
GPS-guided tour
As you drive in your car or RV, or travel by train or bus, Just Ahead takes you on a guided tour. It uses GPS to know exactly where you are and what to say. Imagine you’re cresting a hill and in front of you is a beautiful sight. You’re wondering what it is. That’s when Just Ahead shares with you an exciting story about what you’re looking at.
Works offline
Many of the most beautiful places in the world don’t have mobile phone service. Just Ahead audio guides and offline maps are designed to work wherever you are, even without WiFi or a cell signal. Just be sure to download your guide before you go on your road trip.
Built-in maps
Don’t you hate it when you try to use the maps on your smartphone and they don’t work because there’s no mobile phone service? No worries. Each Just Ahead guide comes bundled with the offline maps you need, even without Internet access.
Great stories
Just Ahead audio guides are written by expert authors and filled with fascinating stories of history, geology, and wildlife. You can’t read and drive. It’s crazy, illegal, and will probably make you sick. Let us be your tour guide and inform you as you drive.
Suggested directions
Just Ahead’s GPS audio guides can also help you avoid getting lost by suggesting directions. Just Ahead tells you why you should turn or not, what you should do after a turn, and recommends the best direction to take if there are multiple route options. It’s like having a professional tour guide in the car with you.
Trip planning
Every time we go on a trip, we stress out about when to go, where to stay, where to find the best camping, what to see, etc. Wouldn’t it be great if you had someone with you who had been on that exact trip countless times? Sharing tips and tricks before you even leave your house? Just Ahead is your on-the-fly trip planner.
We get you there and back
Just Ahead tells you everything you need to know about your destination. But we also know that there are a lot of miles between home and the park, or between this park and the next. That’s why we cover all the common routes to and from your destination. No matter which route your road trip takes you, we’re with you, telling you stories along the way.
Where next?
We at Just Ahead are working to build the most comprehensive series of audio tour guides for the whole world. Wherever you’re traveling, we want to be there.
Press and Awards
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Awards
“Best Travel App”
North American Travel Journalists Association
“Best App”
Sunset Magazine
What People Are Saying
“Holy cow! 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.).”
— Jesse Forest
“I really like how we didn't need a signal since we were out of range, and also how it knew where we were and gave us info for the things right in our view!”
— Laurie G.
★★★★★ “…great on-demand tour information about the park and really opened up the experience….”
— iTunes Reviewer
★★★★★ “This is one of the best apps I've ever used. Exploring Joshua Tree Park with this app was excellent. It even distinguished between the direction of driving and told different information for each direction.”
— iTunes Reviewer
“I never knew the desert was so alive!”
— Alex N. (age 7)
Other Just Ahead Audio Guides
Available Now
- Yosemite National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
- Grand Teton National Park
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Rocky Mountain National Park
- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
- Death Valley National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Zion National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
- Cedar Breaks National Monument
- Interstate 15, Las Vegas, & Hoover Dam
- Petrified Forest National Park
Coming Soon
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
- Mesa Verde National Park
- And many, many more…