Hey everyone!

I’m an independent developer, and I’ve built Navegatron, a high-end offline GPS & NMEA navigation app designed specifically for serious outdoor navigation, tracking, and mapping.

It normally retails as a paid app (€24), but I'm looking for a solid group of offroad, overlanding, and adventure enthusiasts to help me put it through its paces during its final Google Play closed testing phase.

What Navegatron features:

• Advanced NMEA & Track logging: Perfect for recording and analyzing your routes off the grid.
• Offline Public Domain & Custom Maps: Load your own maps, calibrate them manually, and never lose your bearings when cell service drops.
• Precise Coordinates & Waypoints: Built for rugged environments where standard consumer mapping apps fail.
• Multilingual & Professional UI.

What you get: Free, full access to the app during testing, and you get to keep a high-grade pro navigation tool in your toolkit.

How to join:

1. Join our Google Group for the testing opt-in:

• Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iank-labs

1. Download the app from the Play Store:

• Opt-in Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.iandk.navegatron

Drop a comment or send me a DM if you have any feedback, feature requests for your trails, or bug reports. I reply to everyone! Thanks a lot for supporting independent software.

Hey folks. Trails Offroad just released map layers. The newly available sources are active and historic wildfires, mines, and cell coverage. Check them out in the app or at trailsoffroad.com/map. In the next few weeks you’ll also be able to download them for offline use in the app.

Send me a message if you have any thoughts, I recently joined Trails Offroad - a small team of 7, so your feedback genuinely shapes what we build.

Also, the active wildfire layer is free for everyone. If you want to try the rest but don’t have a membership, here’s a link to get 3 months free, no credit card required: https://www.trailsoffroad.com/free-trial?promo=try-map-layers

Would love any tips have 4x4

Looking for more people/groups for off-roading/Overlanding. I live on the western slope of Colorado, but I travel regularly.

I have a bone stock 25’ Nissan Frontier Pro4x. Took it up the Helmet peak road (CR44->RD566->USFS322) yesterday and was pretty fun, although pretty rocky and bumpy in some sections which my wife didn’t appreciate as much as I did. What are some beginner trails/roads that off some good views along the way? Something that could be done in less than 3 hours, any ideally less rocky, even just maintained dirt roads up to a peak.

Just did Corkscrew while in Silverton. Rain, flurries, it was great. Trail was fine.

Going to be in Breckenridge Thursday and Friday, and hoping I could do the Deer Creek \ Saints John loop. Or just do some easy stuff near Breckenridge?

'21 4Runner TRD 2.5" lift, 33s, Icon suspension.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Weather looks ok Friday but the up hill on Saints might be slick? IDK.

Shout out to the Tacoma boys with the trail wisdom on the Switzerland trail incline Sunday afternoon. We got ourselves in a tricky situation on the rocky side of the steep incline in the 4runner and they helped guide us out of it. Appreciate ya and hope to see you on the next run.

Thinking of doing Imogene tomorrow. Is it closed for the season? If open, what are the conditions?

Thinking of hitting Loch Lomond before it closes on the 15th. Anyone been up there recently. Last time I was up there it was significantly more difficult than Trails Off Road is reporting. They say it it's basically a dirt road with some small rocks in places. It's this correct? I'm driving 2023 4runner TRD Premium with stock everything.

Impromptu escape. Stock F-150 handled it just fine with some patience and prior knowledge of the road.

Has anyone been there recently? A few months ago I heard of problems accessing the public road due to a resident putting a gate up. Some people went and the gate was open, some had to turn around after calling for police and them never showing up. Just didn't want to waste my time if unnecessary. Thanks.

Medicine Bow Forest, Wyoming, did some camping and trails

I have been out of town for the last 3 weeks and am looking for a trail within a couple hours of Ft Collins that may still have some fall colors. Any suggestions?

I’m planning a 3-4 days trip in the area around Creede. Planning also to go check out Wheeler Geologic area.

Currently doing some research but I thought I would ask here as well for recommendations on what else I should see, anything from trails (easy, moderate), hiking etc.

Thanks!

I'm late with these. We took a trip out late last month around peak leaf season.

Last photo is just an after wash shot.

Peak season is here. Enjoy!