Plan smarter, travel safer, come home with skills worth keeping. One app for paddling, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, cycling, climbing, and winter trips — offline satellite maps, live weather, USGS river gauges, elevation profiles, and an AI Coach that knows your route. Built for people who actually go.
In short: CWS is a trip-planning tool for every outdoor activity — paddling, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, cycling, climbing, and winter travel. A guided intake builds a plan around your actual skill gaps for whatever you're doing, then backs it with offline satellite maps, weather refreshed every 15 minutes, live USGS river gauges, elevation profiles, and GPS tracking with an emergency-contact check-in. Premium adds the AI Coach, unlimited trips, course completion certificates, and offline downloads for any region. It's included with CWS Premium and available on iOS and Android.
Answer a guided set of questions about your route, group, gear, and experience, and CWS builds a personalized trip plan that flags your actual skill gaps before they become emergencies. Weather, water level, gear, and shuttle logistics, all in one place.
Download satellite and topographic maps before you leave the driveway, then track your route with waypoints and a live location dot, even with no cell service. Hazards and put-in/take-out points right on the map.
Forecasts refreshed every 15 minutes for your exact coordinates, plus live USGS streamflow and gauge data so paddlers know the water level before launch day. This is the data that decides whether you go.
Premium unlocks an outdoor assistant that knows your route, your trip history, and the current conditions at your destination. Ask it about gear, water crossings, navigation, or contingencies, and get answers built for your specific trip.
Paddling, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, cycling, climbing, winter, or a hybrid trip that mixes them — CWS asks the right questions for what you're actually doing and builds a skill checklist specific to that activity, not a generic outdoor-trip form.
See real elevation gain and loss for your route before you go, get shuttle drive distance and time between put-in and takeout, and switch to a night-lights basemap to find genuinely dark sky for stargazing — built from the same NASA imagery used to map light pollution worldwide.
Satellite and topo maps downloaded for anywhere you go.
Route lines, waypoints, and a you-dot that works with no signal.
Refreshed every 15 minutes for your exact route, with a full 6-day forecast.
Live streamflow (CFS), water level, and trend for paddlers.
Real gain/loss charts for your route, powered by USGS terrain data.
Personalized planning for 9 activity types that knows what you still need to learn.
Drive distance and time between put-in and takeout, one tap to directions.
Built for your trip type, exportable to PDF.
Take your route data anywhere — import or export standard formats.
Known hazards layered directly on the map, not buried in a separate list.
Location sharing and an "I'm back safe" tap for your emergency contact.
A guided post-trip debrief with an AI Coach that asks what actually happened out there.
Real completion certificates for finished modules and full courses.
Advice for your specific route, gear, and conditions, before and after your trip.
Privacy first: no ads, ever. Your location data is yours, and is never sold or shared with third parties.
The CWS app comes with your community membership, not a separate app-store subscription. Join THE CAMPFIRE and go Premium, and the full app unlocks for you on both iOS and Android.
Join THE CAMPFIRE to get the appA trip-planning tool for paddling, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, cycling, climbing, and winter travel. A guided intake builds a plan around your actual skill gaps, then backs it with offline satellite maps, weather refreshed every 15 minutes, live USGS river gauges, elevation profiles, and GPS tracking that works when the signal dies.
Yes — nine activity types total: paddling, hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, cycling, climbing, winter, and hybrid trips that mix activities. Each one gets its own guided intake and skill checklist, not a one-size-fits-all form.
It's included with your CWS membership. Join THE CAMPFIRE free to get started, and the full app unlocks with Premium. There's no separate app-store subscription.
Yes. Maps download for offline use and GPS tracking works without cell service.
Yes. It pulls live USGS streamflow (in CFS) and gauge trend data so paddlers can check levels before launch day, plus elevation profiles so you know the terrain before you go.
A Premium outdoor assistant that knows your route, history, and current conditions, and answers questions built for your specific trip.
Both. No ads, and your location data is never sold.
Go Premium and get the full app, the course library, and the Field Manual, all in one membership.
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