OuterSpatial: Get Outside2026.10.1

The guide to all your favorite outdoor activities, OuterSpatial connects you with other like-minded adventurers and the organizations that protect and manage your favorite outdoor places.

Use OuterSpatial to discover new places, navigate while on the trail, and share your adventures with others who love to play outside. OuterSpatial makes getting outside easy by putting information about amazing destinations - including curated articles, events, directions, photos, maps, and brochures - right at your fingertips.

# Features

- Browsable, up-to-date library of outdoor recreation information maintained by our partner organizations.
- Beautiful maps designed specifically for outdoor usage (both day and night).
- Transit, biking, walking, and driving directions to trailheads, campgrounds, and other locations.
- Information about in-person and virtual events.
- Real-time updates about on-the-ground conditions.
- Challenges to motivate you to experience the outdoors in new and exciting ways.
- Tools to help you contribute back to your favorite organization and share your outdoor experiences with others.

# Communities

OuterSpatial includes communities for all states and territories in the United States states as Alberta in Canada. Additionally, the following sponsored communities are currently available:

- Bend: Bend, Oregon
- CA State Parks: California-wide
- Daycation: Portland, Oregon
- Martha's Vineyard: Massachusetts
- National Recreation Trails: USA-wide
- Trails LA County: Los Angeles County, California

# Partner Organizations

We partner with hundreds of the world’s best parks and recreation organizations, including:

- Alaska State Parks (AK)
- Bend Park and Recreation District (OR)
- California State Parks (CA)
- City of Bloomington (IN)
- Five Rivers MetroParks (OH)
- Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation (CA)
- Miami County Park District (OH)
- Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (CA)
- Nevada State Parks (NV)
- North Dakota Parks & Recreation (ND)
- Ohio Department of Natural Resources (OH)
- Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (NH)
- San Francisco Crosstown Trail (CA)
- State of Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources (HI)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USA-wide)
- Visit Utah (UT)
- Yosemite National Park (CA)

Interested in joining OuterSpatial? Shoot us an email at sales@outerspatial.com. We’d love to hear from you!

(This app uses background location to let you know when you're approaching a task location for challenges you're participating in. Continued use of background location may decrease battery life.)

Version History Photo challenges open reliably, pulling to refresh in Explore no longer freezes the app, and organization screens open offline after you've visited them. Photo galleries show larger photos, maps frame parks more accurately, and a stalled offline download ends with a retry option.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.10.1 Oct 2 Content can still open when the app cannot save a downloaded copy on your device. This update fixes a loading failure that could affect articles and other details.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.3 Sep 14 Get clearer feedback when saving check-ins, refreshing feeds, and managing offline maps. Find upcoming events with less waiting, choose your preferred units, and recover from account-loading problems without another login.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.2 Sep 12 Sign-in sessions are more reliable when you log out or switch accounts. Your profile also has a clearer layout, and downloaded communities and saved challenges stay available with a poor connection.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.09.1 Sep 6 Maps reopen with the right view and filters, and search results respond without blocking the screen. Offline challenge responses, pending posts, favorites, and notification settings also recover more reliably.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.6 Sep 1 Trail and outing paths and area outlines draw on location maps again, including the map preview and View Map on each location page.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.5 Aug 29 Update your email from Profile settings without losing your account progress, and badge-sharing cards close smoothly when you tap outside them.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.3 Aug 24 Challenges, events, and your community home now recognize their sponsors. Community maps pick up closure changes sooner and stay available when a refresh fails, and offline access and everyday interactions are more reliable throughout the app.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.2 Aug 22 Settings is organized into clearly titled groups, so options are easier to find. Text follows your preferred size across the app with better VoiceOver support, and maps and nearby results follow the real shape of trails, areas, and community borders.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.08.1 Aug 6 Press and hold on the map works again, community maps and feeds stay true to the community you're in, and screens that hit a bad connection now offer a Try Again button instead of a dead end.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.4 Jul 24 Distances and arrival checks now follow the real shape of large areas and trails, so you won't see "You're Here" when you're still miles away. Challenges also load more reliably — including big multi-location passports — and the Social tab, Home screen, and organization screens got a round of polish.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.3 Jul 21 Challenge and organization screens open noticeably faster, joining a challenge is more responsive, and new photos show up in photo challenges without a manual refresh. You'll also stay signed in more reliably, and new Changelog and What's New sections in Settings lets you catch up on recent releases.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.2 Jul 17 Adventure Mode is here: turn it on and OuterSpatial greets you when you arrive at a participating area, with a one-tap shortcut to jump right in. Challenge location alerts bring that same awareness to your challenges, with a notification the moment you reach a task location. This release also adds visitor alerts throughout the app and clearer closure details at a glance, plus a big round of polish and bug fixes.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.07.1 Jul 15 Images now fade in gently as they load instead of popping into place, and we've fixed sorting, paper maps, push notification links, and a handful of other rough edges across the app.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.10 Jun 25 Images now fade in gently as they load instead of popping into place, and we've fixed sorting, paper maps, push notification links, and a handful of other rough edges across the app.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.9 Jun 20 This update adds a subscriptions list to your Saved tab and new age verification tooling at account creation, along with a batch of visual polish, stability improvements, and bug fixes across challenges, articles, maps, and location screens.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.8 Jun 17 This update fixes an issue that could prevent your community from loading the first time you open the app after installing.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.7 Jun 13 This release completes a major behind-the-scenes modernization of the app's interface, and fixes a wide range of onboarding, navigation, map, and content issues.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.6 Jun 13 This update fixes a crash some explorers ran into when opening challenges and moving between screens.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.5 Jun 9 This release fixes a crash when opening some challenges, makes participating in challenges offline more reliable, shows which category your photo challenge posts belong to, and resolves a wide range of challenge, Social, and navigation issues.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.4 Jun 9 This release resolves a wide range of navigation, challenge, photo challenge, and Create-flow issues, and refines the Create menu, Explore, and Me tab experiences.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.3 Jun 6 This release lets you filter photo challenge photos and locations by category, brings organization brand colors to location screen topo lines, and polishes the Edit Profile and create-a-post flows.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.2 Jun 5 A polish-heavy release bringing stretchy banner art and a persistent pull-to-refresh indicator to detail screens, smoother and more reliable Home content, and a long list of refinements across challenges, articles, organization and location screens, and the map.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.06.1 Jun 3 Articles now come to life with rich formatting—headings, lists, quotes, images, and tappable links that jump you straight to related places in the app. This release also improves login and first-launch reliability, map selection, onboarding polish, photo challenge counts, private challenge access, profile editing, and detail-screen stability.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.05.4 Jun 1 A small follow-up release that improves tab stability, restores Explore map selection after backgrounding, and cleans up the placeholder icons on location cards without photos.

If you're enjoying OuterSpatial, help us grow the community by leaving a five-star review. Have questions or run into any issues? We're here to help: visitors+ios@outerspatial.com. Happy exploring! 2026.05.3 May 23