Time to explore the trails
Enjoy ruby-flushed sunsets sweeping through hemlocks and fresh rhododendron blooms as you hike through murals of eroded sandstone. Our maps take you there.
If you’re planning on hiking in the Daniel Boone NF, Great Smoky Mountains NP, Cumberland Gap NHP, or in Kentucky state parks, we might have a map and digital geodata for you. Check out our shop for maps and data you can purchase online.
We aggregate data from the National Weather Service, National Park Service, and various weather cams to serve weather stations to help hikers understand weather and road conditions for the Daniel Boone National Forest and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Enjoy the mountain air from the comfort of your home.
Time for a trip? Looking for a weekend in the woods, alone and untroubled by maintaining your boring social media accounts? Need to get lost for a while? We understand that instinct and we have maps to help. Consider wandering into a landscape of sandstone cliffs, river fords, and bears along the Sheltowee Trace North and South, which includes the Big South Fork.
Each of our printed topographic maps is finely tuned for navigation and exploration. We use the latest aerial imagery and elevation data to create detailed elevation contours and full-color base maps showing canopy cover and type. Each map has GPS coordinate grids for precise location finding with latitude, longitude, and a UTM grid in meters. We GPS-map and field check our data – no second-hand observations on our maps.
We are always tinkering with mapping projects. Check our GitHub repository for projects that we are actively developing and for recent presentations. You are invited to collaborate.
A true mountain adventure awaits at Cumberland Gap: “At this place we encamped, and made a shelter to defend us from the inclement season, and began to hunt and reconnoitre the country. We found every where abundance of wild beasts of all sorts, through this vast forest. The buffaloes were more frequent than I have seen cattle in the settlements, browzing on the leaves of the cane, or croping the herbage on those extensive plains, fearless, because ignorant, of the violence of man. Sometimes we saw hundreds in a drove, and the numbers about the salt springs were amazing.”
An account by Daniel Boone, “The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone” (1784), by John Filson and Daniel Boone.
Visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with our GPS pack and GeoPDF
Exploring soon?
We actively develop and experiment with navigation tools. If you’re traveling in Kentucky, then you’ll want your basemaps powered with KyFromAbove data, which all of our printed maps use. We have a collection of experimental apps exploring KyFromAbove data that you can use for your next adventure.
If you’re hiking the Sheltowee Trace and recall the days of waypoint finding and Geocaching (maybe you still geocache?), you are encouraged to use our GPS mile-marker finder.
Our Blog
You can always read all of our posts chronologically in the blog to discover what we are developing.
Unfold your next Appalachian adventure with outrageGIS mapping.
