My wife and I are on a yearlong road trip to visit all of the national parks in the lower 48 states. In between parks, we’ve made it a point to explore other public lands along the way. Often making plans on the go, we use the mobile Bivy app to find our next adventure.

From our experience with non-national park public lands, visitor’s centers are nonexistent or inconvenient to get to. And online help can be dated and difficult to sort through. Word of mouth has been more reliable for us than sifting through the maps in search of worthwhile adventures.
The Bivy app has been a great resource for us. It aggregates users’ uploaded adventures all around the world. It’s easy to filter by location, star rating, activity, difficulty, and more. Here’s how we used the app on our road trip when visiting Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Dixie National Forest, and Salt Lake City.
Bivy in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Though recently reduced by 47 percent, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is just over 1 million acres. That’s the largest national monument the Bureau of Land Management oversees. The land is extremely remote and, as a result, was the last place mapped in the continental United States.


Bivy in Dixie National Forest

Bivy in Salt Lake City
