Take-a-hike App
Welcome to our virtually guided hiking experiences. Use your smartphone or device to learn as you hike!
Much like an audio guided museum experience, these virtually guided hiking experiences (through our free app and through Google Maps) will lead you to designated stopping points along a variety of different hiking/walking trails taken at your own pace while you learn, explore, and interact with the surrounding environment. Use the geo-referenced map built into each hike to see exactly where you are and where the next learning stop will be. Listen or read as you hike at your own pace to each stop through this personalized and immersive education experience in the great outdoors!
** For optimal viewing, turn your phone/smart device to landscape (sideways) view to get a larger view of the map and written content.
Lafayette Outdoor Classroom Take-a-hike
audio experience with virtual map
Created April 2022
This audio experience leads you to five stops along a half mile loop at Lafayette’s Outdoor Classroom to learn about the five themes related to the planet and local ecosystems. You will be taken on a journey by Peak to Peak High School students and the experts and locals they interviewed to learn about things like wildfires, rock climbing, bees, and more.
Mud Lake Take-a-hike
Audio experience with Virtual Map
Created: Jan. 2022
Listen to audio clips as you follow along our guide map to learn about the diversity of trees, plants and animals that live at Mud Lake, as well as the services provided by these wetlands, forests and mountains. During this hike, you will engage your senses, and make connections with how we impact these ecosystems from small, individual choices we make to large, global actions.
Shanahan Ridge Take-a-hike
written descriptions along a virtual map
Created: Aug. 2020
This virtual hiking experience will take you to the City of Boulder’s Shanahan Trailheads as you learn about about the ecology of ponderosa pine forest ecosystems and the work the City has done to improve forest health, manage wildfires, and protect our backyard habitats. This hike was created in collaboration with CU’s Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities