Mapping For Our Walks

The Corwen Walking Festival is set to break new ground by creating interactive guides of many walks from this year’s festival and making them available to download, for free, on an Apple iPhone, iPad, and Android smartphones and tablets.

The festival has tied up with ViewRanger, the leading app for outdoor enthusiasts, to publish informative and navigable festival walking maps through the ViewRanger Outdoors GPS app.

ViewRanger powered maps will shortly be added to the festival website providing previews of walks and allowing maps and route cards to be printed.

For the first time, anyone will be able to download, completely free, detailed maps and routes for walks from this year’s festival.  Simply download the free ViewRanger app, search for the festival routes, and tap download to store the festival walks on your phone (so that they can be used without a mobile signal).

Craig Wareham, co-founder and CEO of ViewRanger, said " ViewRanger is a free app that can turn your mobile phone into a GPS navigator and interactive guidebook.  We are delighted to support the Corwen Walking Festival, and to bring a new mobile dimension to the event.”

The walking maps will also be available for download after the event, allowing locals and visitors to continue to download and enjoy many of the walks and the delightful Berwyn Mountains and Dee Valley countryside beyond the festival.

ViewRanger is available to download for free for Apple iPhone and iPad via the appstore, for Android smartphones and tablets via Google Play, for Nokia Symbian phones via Nokia Store, and for BlackBerry BB10 and Playbook.

Alongside its worldwide community of outdoor consumers, and building on its trusted reputation for mapping, navigation, and tracking, ViewRanger has also become the map and navigation app of choice for many search and rescue teams, especially in Great Britain, Ireland, and increasingly the USA.