Closed roads, checked for your trip day
Lots of forest roads close for winter. Finding out at the gate means a long drive back. Set the day you're leaving. The app checks the closures it knows for that day and your vehicle. Then it goes around them or lets you decide.
1See closed roads on the map
Tap Menu, then Layers. Find Road Closures and Closed Roads & Tracks, under Live Hazards. Both start on. Road Closures shows full closures from states that share a live feed. Closed Roads & Tracks shows Forest Service roads closed for the season. It's updated every week. Leave both on.
2Tap a red dashed line
Close the Menu and zoom in on a national forest. Roads shut on your day, for your vehicle, show as red dashed lines. Tap one to see who sets its dates. You'll also see when it's open each year, and the day it opens again. If you're zoomed too far out, the switch says zoom in.
3Set Leaving on
Tap Menu, then Route. Scroll to Leaving on, just under Add Stop and Clear. Pick the day you're setting off. Every closure check then uses that day, not today. A line under it says Road closures are checked for, then your date. Plan with AI uses the same day. Tapping Clear puts it back to today.
4Pick your vehicle, then Plan Route
Under Vehicle for this route, tap what you're driving. The Forest Service gives each kind of vehicle its own dates. They're on its Motor Vehicle Use Map. So one road can be open to a motorcycle and shut to an RV on the same day. The app reads the dates for your vehicle. Add your start and end, then tap Plan Route.
5Choose on the closed road card
Say a road on your route is shut on your day, but opens within six weeks. A card then says Road closed on your route. It shows the day it opens and who said so. Tap Route around it to go another way. Or tap I'll take it to keep that road on your route. It's then marked in yellow. If a stop sits on that road, it comes off when you go around.
6Read the notes in the summary
The Route Summary at the top of the Route tab says what the app did. A road shut for more than six weeks is left out, and a note names it. Some roads are open on your day but close within six weeks. Each gets a Closing soon note with its date. Live closures the route went around are listed too.
Good to know
These dates come from the land managers themselves. They're updated weekly. Live feeds come from the states that have one. A fire or emergency can still close a road the app doesn't know about. So check with the forest before you go. A downloaded map has the closure list, so the check works with no signal. The day you pick can't be in the past.
Also in the app: maps that work with no signal, campgrounds and free sites, and Plan with AI. It plans routes for eight kinds of vehicle, from an enduro bike to a 40-foot RV.