This app can also help save money if you frequent coffee shops for their complimentary WiFi. A slow upload speed could mean taking hours to publish a video on our YouTube channel. Our average video file is over 4 gigabytes.
The Speed Test app will show you the download and upload speed. If you’re a digital nomad and work on the road like we do, having access to good internet speed is important. There are also separate accounts for sever thunderstorms tornados and specific regions and cities in the United States. Follow for NOAA’s National Weather Service tweets. When there is severe weather, Twitter can be a very useful tool (watch the video below). Read our post on RV Safety Tips to learn more about dealing with severe weather. Other layers available include satellite, current alerts, snowfall forecast and temperature contour. We use the radar layer in this app when there are thunderstorms in the area to see precipitation type and intensity. This comes in very handy when planning a route to avoid severe weather including tornado watch. The location search feature makes it easy to get weather forecasts in areas you plan to travel to. You can customize the app to show the data that’s most relevant to you. We’ve used several weather apps throughout the years and have found AccuWeather to be the most reliable.īeyond hourly and daily forecasts, the app has information on air quality and provides severe weather updates. But so far it’s definitely an app we’re finding to be useful and recommend.Ī good weather app is important when you’re traveling. I’m sure there are a ton of other features we don’t even know about yet. Since we’re newer users to Gaia, we’re still learning what it has to offer. This has been super helpful for planning backcountry trips like the Rimrocker Trail ( watch the video). You will also find layers for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and other carriers. Since we have Verizon as our cell service provider, we use the Verizon cell coverage layer to identify areas with cell coverage. The recommended layers are Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM), public lands overlay and USFS Classic. If you have the premium version of the Gaia App, there are layers that can help you find dispersed camping on public land through layering. We have found that the tracking feature will pause unexpectedly so we make sure to check it occasionally to make sure it’s still tracking.
There is a record feature that lets you track your route so you can look back on it and have it for reference for your next trip. Just be sure to download the map(s) for the area first and it will track your position.
We love it because you can use it offline when you don’t have cell service. It is also a popular app for hikers and off-roaders. Gaia GPS is one of our new go-to mobile apps. The search feature is also very easy to use to find popular destinations in an area with user generated reviews.
That will help us determine where we want to stop and maybe even camp for a night or two. For example, you can save all your favorite coffee roasters under a “Coffee” list.įor example, if we are driving from Tucson, Arizona to Flagstaff, Arizona, we will open Google Maps and see what stars we have along the route. You can even create a lists in the app to sort all your saved spots. When a fellow traveler offers a recommendation, we open the Google Maps app on our smartphone and tap on “save” to add it to our map. We have just about every national park and monument in the U.S. This is especially helpful when planning your next camping trip because you can save fuel stops, campgrounds, specific GPS coordinates, favorite restaurants and other designations along your route.
We use this free app to save all the great places we discover and new places we want to explore. You may be surprised to learn that we’re not recommending Google Maps for navigation purposes. You can even enter to win prizes by reporting the most recent fuel prices in the free app. Next time you’re going an RV road trip, use this app to help plan your fuel stops to maximize savings. For example, we use the filters to search for diesel fuel at a Co s tco stations. GasBudy has several filters where you can look for specific stations and type of fuel. You can even look up fuel prices in other cities along your route.
See our one year cost of full time RVing to get an idea of how much was spent on fuel. Whether you’re fueling up an 80 gallon gas tank like we did on our first RV or the 55 gallon diesel tank in our 2000 F350 Superduty, money saved on fuel means more for the fun fund. There have been many instances where we have saved over $.30/gallon on fuel thanks to this app. Finding cheap fuel is key to saving money on the road. GasBuddy is a free mobile app that displays user updated gas prices in the United States and in Canada.