An offline hunting map: save your ground for no signal
Most Colorado hunting country has no signal. Save the ground you will hunt before you leave town and the map, the property lines and owner names, your pins and the dot that shows where you are all keep working.
What is saved
- The topographic map, the aerial photo and the land ownership colours for the ground on screen, kept on your phone.
- Unit lines, parcel lines and the owner on each county record inside the saved area. Tap a spot with no signal and "What is here" still names the unit and the owner, from the copy kept on the day you saved.
- State wildlife areas, walk-in access fields and trails inside it.
- Your own places: pins, routes, areas and tracks.
- Where you are. Your phone finds its position from satellites, which needs no signal.
What still needs signal
- Slope, the shade layer, forest roads, game range, fires, the forecast and the elevation of a spot are asked for from the agencies that hold them, so they need signal.
- Look those up at home or in town. Drop a pin on anything you will need to find again, and name it: the pin goes with you.
- The saved records are as old as the day you saved them. Save again before a trip.
Before you leave town
- Save the area around camp, around each spot you plan to hunt, and the road in.
- Put the phone in airplane mode at home and open the map, to see for yourself what is there without signal.
- Carry a paper map and a compass. A phone is a battery, and cold shortens it.
- Tell someone where you are parking and when you are due out. If you go high, read about altitude sickness first.
You can also print the map on screen with your pins numbered and listed, from More, then Print.
The map shows the ground. A plan tells you where to go.
The map is free. A FilledTag hunt plan is the paid part: for your tag and where you drive from, one exact plan with a legal place to park, a camp, morning and evening spots and the walk between them, checked against land records.